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

[Aaron Conole]

Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com> writes:

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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.

It doesn't reproduce with clang-8.

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