[dpdk-dev] FW: || pw64572 lib/eventdev: use custom element size ring for event rings

[Honnappa Nagarahalli]

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> > >>
> > >> Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> writes:
> > >>
> > >> > Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com> writes:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Hi Aaron,
> > >> >> I am not able to understand the error, looks like there is no
> > >> >> particular error. Can you please take a look?
> > >> >
> > >> > Gladly.  A number of the systems that were running the build
> > >> > stopped their output for an unknown reason (looks like this was a
> > >> > 1-time thing).  See the error:
> > >> >
> > >> >   [2164/2165] Compiling C object 'app/te...st@@dpdk-
> > >> test at exe/test_ring_perf.c.o'.
> > >> >
> > >> >   No output has been received in the last 10m0s, this potentially
> > >> >   indicates a stalled build or something wrong with the build itself.
> > >>
> > >> I see this continually happening (I've kicked it off a number of times).
> > >>
> > >> This patch might need more investigation, since it's always failing
> > >> when building 2164/2165 object.
> > > I compiled with clang-7. Compiler seems to hang while compiling
> > > test_ring.c
> >
> > Cool.  Looks like a good catch, then :)
> Update:
> x86 - compilation succeeds, but take a long time - ~1hr.
> On 2 different Arm platforms - compilation succeeds in normal amount of
> time.
> Does anyone have any experience dealing with this kind of issue?
> 
I ran this on another x86 server - this patch takes ~8mns. The master (without this patch) takes ~1.02mns.

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