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[2001:8b0:1d0::2]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-42cc1375189sm92228915e9.1.2024.09.12.08.10.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:10:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Maydell To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Thomas Huth Subject: [PATCH v2] .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml: Force 'make check' single-threaded for cross-i686-tci Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:10:03 +0100 Message-Id: <20240912151003.2045031-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::12e; envelope-from=peter.maydell@linaro.org; helo=mail-lf1-x12e.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org The cross-i686-tci CI job is persistently flaky with various tests hitting timeouts. One theory for why this is happening is that we're running too many tests in parallel and so sometimes a test gets starved of CPU and isn't able to complete within the timeout. (The environment this CI job runs in seems to cause us to default to a parallelism of 9 in the main CI.) Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth --- If this works we might be able to wind this up to -j2 or -j3, and/or consider whether other CI jobs need something similar. --- .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml index 459273f9da5..1e21d082aa4 100644 --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml @@ -62,7 +62,11 @@ cross-i686-tci: IMAGE: debian-i686-cross ACCEL: tcg-interpreter EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS: --target-list=i386-softmmu,i386-linux-user,aarch64-softmmu,aarch64-linux-user,ppc-softmmu,ppc-linux-user --disable-plugins --disable-kvm - MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check check-tcg + # Force tests to run in series, to see whether this + # reduces the flakiness of this CI job. The CI + # environment by default shows us 8 CPUs and so we + # would otherwise be using a parallelism of 9. + MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check check-tcg -j1 cross-mipsel-system: extends: .cross_system_build_job