Re: [PATCH] cirrus.yml: Exclude some targets in the FreeBSD job to speed up the build

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:44:10AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The FreeBSD jobs currently hit the 1h time limit in the Cirrus-CI.
> We've got to exclude some build targets here to make sure that the job
> finishes in time again. The targets that are excluded should not hurt
> much, since e.g. all the code from i386-softmmu is covered again by
> x86_64-softmmu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Not sure why the FreeBSD builds suddenly got slower and hit the 1h
>  time limit now. Looking at https://cirrus-ci.com/github/qemu/qemu
>  it seems like the FreeBSD jobs were already taking ca. 48 minutes
>  since quite a while, but since the Meson build system has been merged,
>  they now always hit the 1h limit. Could it be that Meson is slow on
>  FreeBSD?
>  
>  I hope disabling some of the "redundant" targets is ok for everybody
>  to get this working again. Alternatively, we could also introduce a
>  second FreeBSD job and run half of the targets in one job, and half
>  of the targets in the other job if that's preferred?

I'd probably suggest we go for two jobs, as there doesn't look like
any constraint on running multiple jobs that we'll hit any time
soon.


Regards,
Daniel
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