Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/1] .travis.yml: add --disable-linux-user for some jobs

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 02:15:14PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> The modules and co-routine builds are only really relevant to softmmu
>> builds and regularly timeout on Travis. Let's disable linux-user
>> builds here for more headroom.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>> index 01a57399b5..0dd5020552 100644
>> --- a/.travis.yml
>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>> @@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ env:
>>      - CONFIG=""
>>      - CONFIG="--enable-debug --enable-debug-tcg --enable-trace-backends=log"
>>      - CONFIG="--disable-linux-aio --disable-cap-ng --disable-attr --disable-brlapi --disable-uuid --disable-libusb"
>> -    - CONFIG="--enable-modules"
>> -    - CONFIG="--with-coroutine=ucontext"
>> -    - CONFIG="--with-coroutine=sigaltstack"
>> +    - CONFIG="--enable-modules --disable-linux-user"
>> +    - CONFIG="--with-coroutine=ucontext --disable-linux-user"
>> +    - CONFIG="--with-coroutine=sigaltstack --disable-linux-user"
>
> Since this merged, the 4th, 5th & 6th jobs are now reliably completing in
> time, but the 1st and 3rd jobs are hitting timeouts on the majority of
> runs :-(

Yeah it's certainly a problem as QEMU has grown. The original
.travis.yml split things up across architecture lines but we removed
that in favour of "feature" selection.

> We've already got a lot of jobs, but for sake of reliability should we
> consider splitting the 1st & 3rd jobs. Add --disable-linux-user to both
> of the existing jobs, and then adding 2 new jobs with --disable-system
> and --disable-tools set ?

Good idea. I don't suppose you've already tried this?

>
> Regards,
> Daniel


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Alex Bennée