From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45592) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWNUO-0000ex-Kd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:38:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWNUI-00026Y-I9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:38:32 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43426 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWNUI-000253-C4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:38:26 -0400 Message-ID: <54214D9E.8090602@suse.de> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:38:22 +0200 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1410799691-1226-1-git-send-email-alex.bennee@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <1410799691-1226-1-git-send-email-alex.bennee@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] A number of Travis CI tweaks List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?UTF-8?B?QWxleCBCZW5uw6ll?= , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org On 15.09.14 18:48, Alex Benn=C3=A9e wrote: > Hi, >=20 > While I was in-between kernel builds last week I attempted to improve > the Travis build a little. Alexander Graf pointed out we were missing > a number of the linux-user targets. To avoid exploding the matrix too > much I've grouped builds together where they hopefully benefit from > sharing some objtect files. The biggest win however was using a > tarball to pre-seed the sub-module checkouts. I'm not sure if this is > because hammering our git server slows down or just because it's a lot > of data but it was adding up to around half the execution time of the > build. >=20 > Finally I removed "make check" from every build. It still gets run > once in the matrix but this means the current instability will bite > less often. >=20 > I failed in the task of adding mingw builds because it's hard on the > Travis Ubuntu hosts to install the headers/libs for a cross compile. > If someone can come up with a nice solid script that hand pulls in > these dependancies then we can add a call to that for the mingw > builds. Any volenteers? >=20 > If there are no objections/negative reviews I'll push these at the > Trivial tree later this week. Or is it time we create a specific > testing tree for these particular type of patches? I like it :). Except for the small nit on 3/4. Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf Alex