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

[Thomas Monjalon]

17/04/2020 10:49, Ruifeng Wang:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > 16/04/2020 15:45, Aaron Conole:
> > > David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> writes:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:44 PM Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >> 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 should add back the cross-build if we do this - at least then we
> > > >> could have a reliable compilation test of Arm64 code.   Does it make
> > > >> sense?
> > > >
> > > > I don't see them removed by this patch, the two jobs are still present ?
> > >
> > > Whoops - for some reason I missed them.  Nevermind :)
> > 
> > So? Acked?
> > 
> Can we achieve this by allowing failures on AArch64 jobs?
> https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/build-matrix/#rows-that-are-allowed-to-fail
> 
> Add following setting:
> jobs:
>   allow_failures:
>   - arch: arm64
> 
> So we can keep the jobs while not suffering from unstable infrastructure.
> Results of these jobs will still observable. This gives us a chance to know when jobs are stable.

I don't see the benefit. It will just make Travis reports unclear.

I wait at least one more week to give Travis a chance to fix Arm support.
Please work with them.
If no result shortly, I will apply this patch to improve DPDK CI reliability.