[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/4] add travis ci support for ppc64le
Luca Boccassi
bluca at debian.org
Mon Apr 19 14:22:01 CEST 2021
On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 16:45 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:13 PM David Wilder <dwilder at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > This patch series adds Travis gcc compilation jobs and unit testing
> > for ppc64le. Limitations for ppc64le are similar to arm64 (see commit
> > 31bb45bcfd).
> >
> > 1. Only gcc builds are supported on ppc64le.
> > 2. Hugepages are not available in the ppc64le Travis environment.
> > 3. Memory requirements are larger for ppc64le due to a higher
> > RTE_MAX_LCORE value.
> >
> > V2: Insures iova-mode is VA when --no-huge is selected.
> > Removed setting of --iova-mode=VA in test-null.sh.
> > V3: Refactor ppc64le changes on top of David Marchand's
> > Patch series: "Reorganise Travis jobs"
> > http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-February/158231.html
> > V4: Adding unit testing.
> > Updated eal/linux: patch to force PA mode when --huge-page is used.
> > This should be a more straightforward solution than my V3 patch.
> >
> > A Travis build with theses patches can be found here:
> > https://travis-ci.org/github/djlwilder/dpdk/builds/670214578
> > David Wilder (4):
> > eal/linux: force iova-mode va with no-huge option
> > devtools: allow test-null.sh to run on ppc64le
>
> This affects our testing and from reviewing the code I think the first
> two are safe and good.
> In addition it affects mostly no-huge which is almost testing-only.
> Therefore for patch #1 and #2:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
>
> @Luca - could you give this a try if it applies and fixes our issues please?
> That would also answer DMs question about applicability.
Hi,
The first patch applies with very minor and trivial refresh for fuzz to
20.11, and fixes the issue for me - the fast suite can now run without
privileges in autopkgtest. I'd like to have this included for 21.05 so
that we can fix the tests.
So:
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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