Re: NIPA: TDC: delay the start

[Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>]

Hi Jamal,

Thank you for your reply!

On 06/11/2026 22:39, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> ,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2026 11:43:27 +0100 Matthieu Baerts wrote:
>>> Hi Pedro,
>>>
>>> I hope you are doing well.
>>>
>>> I'm helping the netdev maintainers with the CI (NIPA), and lately, I
>>> noticed the 'tdc' runners were often marked as either "timeout" or
>>> "pending". It looks like this is because it missed the creation of the
>>> branch which can take more than 2 minutes for various reasons: PW access
>>> is slow, git push needs to be retried in a few seconds, etc.
>>>
>>> I opened a PR to delay the start:
>>>
>>>   https://github.com/p4tc-dev/tc-executor/pull/2
>>>
>>> Another solution is to let the tdc* services running and doing the
>>> monitoring themselves. In other words, you need to remove
>>> "single_shot=true" from the config file. It might require you to update
>>> the NIPA repo you are using to get access to a bunch of fixes.
>>
>> Keeps happening, I dropped TDC from required runners for now.
> 
> This was an issue related to the indeterminate time it takes for the
> branch to show up after creation.

Just to put a bit more context, having no results from a runner means
the CI cannot validate whether the batch being tested was passing all
the tests or not. So we need to wait 3 more hours to get results. It's
not dramatic, but here it happens regularly, and it should be easy to fix.

> Matthieu, Victor responded to you; the overall proposal you made looks
> good. I don't know how we can fix this, but since Pedro is currently
> away we saw this mention by pure luck: Can we change the contact email
> address to hybris@mojatatu.ai? That way if you send an email there,
> one of several people will see it and respond.

Good idea, I just changed that!

Please ping me when it is fixed, so I can re-enable the runner on NIPA's
side.

Cheers,
Matt