Re: [PATCH v5 17/18] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Increase the timeout to 90 minutes

[Bin Meng]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 5:57 PM Marc-André Lureau
<marcandre.lureau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:16 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
>>
>> commit 9f8e6cad65a6 ("gitlab-ci: Speed up the msys2-64bit job by using 
>> --without-default-devices"
>> changed to compile QEMU with the --without-default-devices switch for
>> the msys2-64bit job, due to the build could not complete within the
>> project timeout (1h), and also mentioned that a bigger timeout was
>> getting ignored on the shared Gitlab-CI Windows runners.
>>
>> However as of today it seems the shared Gitlab-CI Windows runners does
>> honor the job timeout, and the runner has the timeout limit of 2h, so
>> let's increase the timeout to 90 minutes and drop the configure switch
>> "--without-default-devices" to get a larger build coverage.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
>
>
> Given the discussion in "[PATCH v2 36/39] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Increase 
> the timeout to 90 minutes", maybe we should drop this patch for now?
>

Unfortunately there is not a good solution to make the CI complete
within 90 minutes to finish the Windows qTtest CI without
"--without-default-devices"

Regards,
Bin