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

[Thomas Monjalon]

25/03/2021 17:40, Aaron Conole:
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> writes:
> >> 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.

Thanks all, patch classified as "Rejected".