From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhGMG-0006sR-2p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:28:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhGMB-0005cW-Vo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:28:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:20:21 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20170814172001-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20170809070357.28723-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <20170811085157.GY13670@umbus.fritz.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/6] ppc patch queue 2017-08-09 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: David Gibson , QEMU Developers , Alexey Kardashevskiy , "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" , Alexander Graf , Greg Kurz , Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= , Fam Zheng , Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 09:59:00AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 11 August 2017 at 09:51, David Gibson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 01:47:03PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> On 9 August 2017 at 08:03, David Gibson wrote: > >> > I haven't completed a Travis build for this, which is part of my usual > >> > test regime, since the first dozen or so Travis builds are failing > >> > more often than not on master as well. I don't know why this is - > >> > seems to be failing some of the x86 tests. > >> > >> Doesn't look much worse than usual to me -- of the last 24 travis > >> builds for master 4 failed and 20 passed. > > > > Uh.. that's not been my experience. I was a bit unclear in my > > description, though. Until maybe a week and a half ago I found the > > Travis build was fairly reliable, though there were occasional > > transien failures. Now, essentially every Travis build is failing for > > me. Specifically most of the first dozen or so of the batch of build > > configurations on Travis fail (that's "X" not "!"). These seem to be > > transient failures in the sense that if I rebuild enough times they'll > > eventually pass, but unlike earlier when the builds would suceed most > > of the time, they now seem to succeed at best around 1/3 of the time > > (that's ~1/3 of the time for each configuration sub-build, so with a > > dozen or so apparently affected that means a complete passing build > > essentially never). > > > > See for example https://travis-ci.org/dgibson/qemu/builds/263312174 > > where 5 subbuilds have failed (which is relatively few). In each case > > the failing error seems to be something like: > > > > ERROR:tests/vhost-user-test.c:807:test_connect_fail: child process (/i386/vhost-user/connect-fail/subprocess [55883]) failed unexpectedly > > > > Seems to be i386 in some cases and x86_64 in others. And is it always the connect-fail test? > Weird. https://travis-ci.org/qemu/qemu/builds is the master > build history and as you can see it's mostly greens. > Not sure why your setup would be significantly worse: > maybe one of the travis submaintainers has an idea. > It could just be our vhost-user-test is flaky but I don't > know why that should hit you much more than master... > > > thanks > -- PMM