[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: enable vm env for aarch64 builds

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Tue Aug 25 16:18:23 CEST 2020


Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech> writes:

> Tests requiring hugepages do not work outside of VM environment because
> of security limitations. Enable aarch64 builds which run tests to run in
> a VM to avoid these limitations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech>
> ---

Cool!

Globally we have dist: set to 'bionic'.  Does it make sense to upgrade all
the distributions to 'focal' ?  What is the rationale for not using
'bionic'?

>  .travis.yml | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index d6eeab371..d73d3e4c5 100644
> --- a/.travis.yml
> +++ b/.travis.yml
> @@ -88,7 +88,10 @@ jobs:
>      arch: arm64
>      compiler: gcc
>    - env: DEF_LIB="shared" RUN_TESTS=1
> -    arch: arm64
> +    dist: focal
> +    arch: arm64-graviton2
> +    virt: vm
> +    group: edge
>      compiler: gcc
>    - env: DEF_LIB="shared" BUILD_DOCS=1
>      arch: arm64
> @@ -103,5 +106,8 @@ jobs:
>      arch: arm64
>      compiler: clang
>    - env: DEF_LIB="shared" RUN_TESTS=1
> -    arch: arm64
> +    dist: focal
> +    arch: arm64-graviton2
> +    virt: vm
> +    group: edge
>      compiler: clang



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