[dpdk-ci] OBS pull request in pw-ci
Aaron Conole
aconole at redhat.com
Mon Jul 13 22:17:50 CEST 2020
Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech> writes:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Have you had a chance to look at the pull request?
Only a bit. I will do something more thorough on Wednesday.
> Thanks,
> Juraj
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 7:32 PM
>> To: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech>
>> Cc: ci at dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: OBS pull request in pw-ci
>>
>> Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech> writes:
>>
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I've submitted a PR with OBS changes to pw-ci:
>> > https://github.com/orgcandman/pw-ci/pull/12
>>
>> Cool! I'll take a look. I was on PTO, so didn't get a chance yet.
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > I have a couple of points/questions:
>> >
>> > · The scripts are using
>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:bluca:dpdk/dpdk to fork the
>> debian and
>> > redhat spec and control files.
>>
>> Okay. A quick look shows that it's configurable, though. Should be okay. I refer
>> to:
>>
>> https://github.com/orgcandman/pw-
>> ci/pull/12/commits/93f6baa497c85d7aca36cda6661e90f7a69d4709#diff-
>> e2ab32f32889186bdeb0ab4f0ef55282
>>
>> > · We should create a community OBS project (that the community can
>> manage) where the forked packages will be
>> > created and where the build will run (OBS_TARGET_PROJECT in
>> > 3rd-party/dpdk/jenkins-rc)
>>
>> Okay.
>>
>> > o The project should be configured according to what we want to build -
>> distros/architectures. Can be done via OBS GUI.
>> >
>> > · Only after all patches have been submitted to a series branch does the
>> DPDK Jenkins job upload and configure an OBS
>> > package. This means that we'll have a build just for the whole series, not for
>> each patch. Not sure if this is a problem.
>>
>> The flip side is the amount of time to build. We'd prefer to build just one at a
>> time.
>>
>> > · One thing that doesn't make sense to me is that the DPDK Jenkins job
>> builds dpdk after each patch - is this needed,
>> > since Travis is going to do the same thing anyway?
>>
>> Travis doesn't. The ovsrobot travis build is configured to cancel a build on a
>> branch if a new one comes. That way we only build the latest. Builds on travis
>> take 40+ min to complete, so if a 20-patch series came in, we wouldn't be done
>> building it for more than half a day. Then if a v2+ is posted in rapid succession,
>> we lost all this time. So for now, we only build the absolute last patch in the
>> series on Travis.
>>
>> Also, the build server we run the robot on doesn't do the builds anymore
>> because it also got overloaded - so meson and ninja are not the actual
>> meson/ninja but just dummy commands. :-/ Maybe I should re-enable and see
>> if things improved.
>>
>> > · I've added some more comments to the PR itself.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Juraj
>>
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