[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: remove aarch64 from Travis jobs

[Aaron Conole]

Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> writes:

> 16/04/2020 13:00, Thomas Monjalon:
>> Travis is not reliable for native Arm and PPC:
>> https://travis-ci.community/t/disk-quota-exceeded-on-arm64/7619/6
>> 
>> In order to get reliable Travis reports,
>> the use of Arm machines is removed until Travis fixes it.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>
> We managed without applying this patch.
>
> After one year passed, what is the situation today regarding Travis?
> Can we rely on Travis service?

So far, yes.

> For which workload? Which architecture?

I think for all of them.  Looking at even the failures which pop up for
the latest patches, they seem like real failures.

ex:
  https://travis-ci.com/github/ovsrobot/dpdk/jobs/493722400
  https://travis-ci.com/github/ovsrobot/dpdk/jobs/493688879
  https://travis-ci.com/github/ovsrobot/dpdk/jobs/493624012
  https://travis-ci.com/github/ovsrobot/dpdk/jobs/493611597

These are ABI, and doc failures - different arches, etc.

Seems like it's quite usable.

> Aaron, what do you recommend?

I think we should drop this patch - Travis continues to be useful even
for individual developers checking their own results.  It seems the
service works quite a bit better now for the project as well, thanks to
Honnappa and other ARM folks for working with them.