From 1374ed49e1453c30023483e20d705c4321f19cff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Maydell Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:10:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml: Force 'make check' single-threaded for cross-i686-tci The cross-i686-tci CI job is persistently flaky with various tests hitting timeouts. One theory for why this is happening is that we're running too many tests in parallel and so sometimes a test gets starved of CPU and isn't able to complete within the timeout. (The environment this CI job runs in seems to cause us to default to a parallelism of 9 in the main CI.) Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Message-id: 20240912151003.2045031-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org --- .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml index 459273f9da5..1e21d082aa4 100644 --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml @@ -62,7 +62,11 @@ cross-i686-tci: IMAGE: debian-i686-cross ACCEL: tcg-interpreter EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS: --target-list=i386-softmmu,i386-linux-user,aarch64-softmmu,aarch64-linux-user,ppc-softmmu,ppc-linux-user --disable-plugins --disable-kvm - MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check check-tcg + # Force tests to run in series, to see whether this + # reduces the flakiness of this CI job. The CI + # environment by default shows us 8 CPUs and so we + # would otherwise be using a parallelism of 9. + MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check check-tcg -j1 cross-mipsel-system: extends: .cross_system_build_job -- 2.39.5