[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] ci: generate fast-tests suite base on hugepage availability

[David Marchand]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:03 PM Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 00:18
> > To: Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>
> > Cc: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>; Michael Santana
> > <maicolgabriel at hotmail.com>; Bruce Richardson
> > <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin
> > <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; dev <dev at dpdk.org>; Burakov, Anatoly
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> > Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>; nd <nd at arm.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] ci: generate fast-tests suite base on hugepage
> > availability
> >
> > Hello Ruifeng,
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 4:50 PM Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > First time I see this error:
> > > > https://travis-ci.com/github/david-
> > marchand/dpdk/jobs/301063161#L8410
> > > >
> > > > Did you encounter it?
> > >
> > > First time for me to see this as well.
> > > Not sure how often it will happen. Looks like clock was not stable?
> > > I'll need time to check this part.
> >
> > Fyi, caught on master:
> > https://travis-ci.com/github/DPDK/dpdk/jobs/305880147#L8685
> >
> Thanks for the notice.
> I tried to reproduce this locally, but haven't duplicated the issue.

Running in containers is likely to have an effect.
Maybe try to run concurrently a busy loop on the cores running the test?

Btw, I noticed a new kind of timeout:
https://travis-ci.com/github/ovsrobot/dpdk/jobs/318096284#L3231


> I didn't see issue from DPDK API perspective.
> Maybe we will remove this case from no-huge run to avoid Travis failure.

I prefer we fix the tests.


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David Marchand