Re: [Qemu-devel] Who is running QEMU automated tests, and when?

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 26.04.2018 16:24, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:22:36AM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 04:09:55PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> On 26.04.2018 15:57, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>>>> (Starting a new thread, for more visibility)
>>>>>
>>>>> (This was: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] tests/device-introspect: Test
>>>>> devices with all machines, not only with "none")
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 01:54:43PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>> I don't mind having make check SPEED=slow run more extensive tests.
>>>>>> Assuming we actually run them at least once in a while, which seems
>>>>>> doubtful.
>>>>>
>>>>> We probably don't do that, but we really must be running a more
>>>>> extensive (and slower) test set at least once before every
>>>>> release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe some people are running SPEED=slow tests, or even more
>>>>> extensive test suites like avocado-vt once in a while, but we
>>>>> need to know who is running them, and when.
>>>>
>>>> At least I am running "make check SPEED=slow" manually from time to
>>>> time, especially when we enter the hard freeze period.
>>>
>>> Hmm, we could get this done by travis. It has the concept of "cron jobs"
>>> for scheduling builds separately from pushes.
>>>
>>> So we could keep the current travis jobs unchanged, but then add an
>>> use of SPEED=slow when TRAVIS_EVENT_TYPE == "cron" in the travis.yml,
>>> so we can get SPEED=slow run once a day. Just have to be careful which
>>> jobs we make slow so we don't hit the 50 minute timeout.
>>
>> I expect SPEED=slow tests to eventually take longer than 50
>> minutes, but we can try this and see what happens.
> 
> We can run many jobs though so if qtests take longer than 50 mins, we could
> create 1 job per target arch.

That could work... individual "make check-qtest-xxx" should be short
enough, I hope.

 Thomas