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.
Set the MESON_TESTTHREADS environment variable to 1 for this job; this will cause 'meson test' to run only one test at a time. (Note that this relies on the change to meson2make that makes it honour MESON_TESTTHREADS; otherwise it will have no effect.) Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- Seems worth a try -- if this doesn't have an effect then we can revert it, but we'll at least have determined what the problem isn't... --- .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml index cb499e4ee0d..ca1db011b11 100644 --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ cross-i686-tci: 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 'meson test' to run only one test at once, to + # see whether this reduces the flakiness of this CI job. + MESON_TESTTHREADS: 1 cross-mipsel-system: extends: .cross_system_build_job -- 2.34.1