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
