[OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Ian Jackson]

Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is
taking too long.

CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
---
 production-config | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/production-config b/production-config
index df02cd3..fae31ea 100644
--- a/production-config
+++ b/production-config
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ LogsMinExpireAge= 86400*4
 LogsPublishMinSpaceMby= 20*1e3
 LogsPublishMinExpireAge= 86400*7
 
+BuildArches i386 amd64 armhf
+TestArches i386 amd64 armhf
+
 TestHostKeypairPath /home/osstest/keys/id_rsa_osstest
 
 GitCacheProxy git://cache:9419/
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Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Julien Grall]

On 13/08/18 15:57, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is
> taking too long.
> 
> CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>

Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>

Cheers,

> ---
>   production-config | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/production-config b/production-config
> index df02cd3..fae31ea 100644
> --- a/production-config
> +++ b/production-config
> @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ LogsMinExpireAge= 86400*4
>   LogsPublishMinSpaceMby= 20*1e3
>   LogsPublishMinExpireAge= 86400*7
>   
> +BuildArches i386 amd64 armhf
> +TestArches i386 amd64 armhf
> +
>   TestHostKeypairPath /home/osstest/keys/id_rsa_osstest
>   
>   GitCacheProxy git://cache:9419/
> 

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Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Rich Persaud]

On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:57, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> 
> Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is
> taking too long.

Apologies if this is already documented elsewhere - does OSStest use Qemu for arm64 testing?

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Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Julien Grall]

Hi Rich,

On 08/14/2018 11:42 PM, Rich Persaud wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:57, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>>
>> Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is
>> taking too long.
> 
> Apologies if this is already documented elsewhere - does OSStest use Qemu for arm64 testing?

Osstest does not use QEMU for testing, but I think it would be too slow 
to have result in timely manner and use x86 resource as well.

We are meant to receive more new arm64 hardware in a bit and also 2 
Thunder-X waiting for a Debian upgraded before they can be thrown into 
production.

Cheers,

> 
> Rich
> 

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Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Rich Persaud]

On Aug 14, 2018, at 18:46, Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rich,
> 
>> On 08/14/2018 11:42 PM, Rich Persaud wrote:
>>> On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:57, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is
>>> taking too long.
>> Apologies if this is already documented elsewhere - does OSStest use Qemu for arm64 testing?
> 
> Osstest does not use QEMU for testing, but I think it would be too slow to have result in timely manner and use x86 resource as well.

To avoid having zero test coverage for one target architecture, it may be acceptable to temporarily reduce test capacity for other target architectures.  QEMU has the advantage of being faster to "rack" a test architecture for temporary use.

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Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Julien Grall]

Hi,

On 08/15/2018 12:25 AM, Rich Persaud wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2018, at 18:46, Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rich,
>>
>>> On 08/14/2018 11:42 PM, Rich Persaud wrote:
>>>> On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:57, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is
>>>> taking too long.
>>> Apologies if this is already documented elsewhere - does OSStest use Qemu for arm64 testing?
>>
>> Osstest does not use QEMU for testing, but I think it would be too slow to have result in timely manner and use x86 resource as well.
> 
> To avoid having zero test coverage for one target architecture, it may be acceptable to temporarily reduce test capacity for other target architectures.  QEMU has the advantage of being faster to "rack" a test architecture for temporary use.

Well, arm64 test coverage was already reduced because we had only 2 
platforms ready for testing. I can hardly imagine how this code be 
reduced more for fitting QEMU. Beware that we compile natively in 
Osstest so this will take an awful lot of time here.

However, the main problem here is not the lack of platform but the lack 
of time for OSSTest team (mostly Ian and Wei) to investigate and 
bring-up new platforms. Maybe you can help finding contributors to help 
on Arm64?

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Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Rich Persaud]

On Aug 15, 2018, at 05:29, Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 08/15/2018 12:25 AM, Rich Persaud wrote:
>>> On Aug 14, 2018, at 18:46, Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Rich,
>>> 
>>>>> On 08/14/2018 11:42 PM, Rich Persaud wrote:
>>>>> On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:57, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission and repairing them is
>>>>> taking too long.
>>>> Apologies if this is already documented elsewhere - does OSStest use Qemu for arm64 testing?
>>> 
>>> Osstest does not use QEMU for testing, but I think it would be too slow to have result in timely manner and use x86 resource as well.
>> To avoid having zero test coverage for one target architecture, it may be acceptable to temporarily reduce test capacity for other target architectures.  QEMU has the advantage of being faster to "rack" a test architecture for temporary use.
> 
> Well, arm64 test coverage was already reduced because we had only 2 platforms ready for testing. I can hardly imagine how this code be reduced more for fitting QEMU. Beware that we compile natively in Osstest so this will take an awful lot of time here.
> 
> However, the main problem here is not the lack of platform but the lack of time for OSSTest team (mostly Ian and Wei) to investigate and bring-up new platforms. Maybe you can help finding contributors to help on Arm64?

This may happen via testing of the OpenEmbedded meta-virtualization layer support for Xen, where OE enables cross-compilation.

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Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Ian Jackson]

Following reflashing of the two machines, and recent work to change
the PDU usage, which I think will help with the reliability, I am
intending to revert this as soon as I have rerun a commissioning test
on both laxtons.

Ian.

From a7491b211f06daa8fa6e0f646bf717958cf91a2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:26:29 +0000
Subject: [OSSTEST PATCH] Revert "production-config: Temporarily drop arm64"

This reverts commit c65d7eb3f6c424d6c1fe69c5ecfca9c0b6cf4302.
---
 production-config | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/production-config b/production-config
index 980377c4..6b743d4f 100644
--- a/production-config
+++ b/production-config
@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ LogsMinExpireAge= 86400*4
 LogsPublishMinSpaceMby= 20*1e3
 LogsPublishMinExpireAge= 86400*7
 
-BuildArches i386 amd64 armhf
-TestArches i386 amd64 armhf
-
 TestHostKeypairPath /home/osstest/keys/id_rsa_osstest
 
 GitCacheProxy git://cache:9419/
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[OSSTEST PATCH] production-config: Temporarily drop arm64

[Ian Jackson]

Both our arm64 boxes are out of commission again.

I have filed a ticket to have the recently failed box investigated.
And I am working on the stretcb upgrade which will bring our
Thunder-X into service.

But for now this is the best we can do to unblock everything.

CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
---
 production-config | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/production-config b/production-config
index 6b743d4f..980377c4 100644
--- a/production-config
+++ b/production-config
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ LogsMinExpireAge= 86400*4
 LogsPublishMinSpaceMby= 20*1e3
 LogsPublishMinExpireAge= 86400*7
 
+BuildArches i386 amd64 armhf
+TestArches i386 amd64 armhf
+
 TestHostKeypairPath /home/osstest/keys/id_rsa_osstest
 
 GitCacheProxy git://cache:9419/
-- 
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