[dpdk-ci] [dpdklab] What is the reliability of the community lab

[Thomas Monjalon]

15/04/2021 20:26, Brandon Lo:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> For the ABI check failure, we were working on a few migration-related
> changes that caused this issue. We have fixed the underlying cause and
> the rolling migration will be completed soon. The test will be rerun
> and reported back up to patchworks as well.

You should avoid running tests when the platform is not ready.
It was giving false positives.

> We are also in the process of adding more monitoring for failure
> results that are not limited to only infrastructure failures, i.e.
> failures caused by a test's return value will alert us in a separate
> category which will allow us to validate the result.

The lab seems stopped currently.
There are issues for a week now.
What are the news today?


> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:10 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> >
> > We still have some severe reliability issues with the community lab.
> > One under investigation, waiting for a bisect, is making the lab crashing.
> >
> > Another one I would like to understand is about the ABI check.
> > Why the test is failing (which is normal) in Travis and GitHub
> > but passing in the community lab?
> >
> > See this example:
> > https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/1618283653-16510-6-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com/