Gabriel, We do need to have multiple workers to service the verify queue... having the queue back up behind a single server wouldn't be good. Do you know if these boxes are installed with Ubuntu 16.04 already?
Ed On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:03 AM Gabriel Ganne <gabriel.ga...@enea.com> wrote: > Yes, they are. > > I estimate it should take about 40 minutes to build and test with 8 cores > in release mode, therefore I do not think that using all 3 ThunderX is > necessary. > > I do not have access to a ThunderX platform on my side (I ran my tests on > NXP and Hierofalcon platforms), if needed please see with Tina Tsou (in CC) > for the specifics of ThunderX. > > > I was thinking about duplicating the *vpp-verify-master-ubuntu1604* > target as a first step. > > Ubuntu 16.04 is a LTS for armv8 and is one of the distributions already > used for vpp x86 continuous testing. > > > If all goes well, I was thinking about using fedora-26 (or above) as > rhel-based distribution, since it also has aarch64 official support. > > But since it's not one of the distros already used in ci, let's keep it > for later. > > > Regards, > > > -- > > Gabriel Ganne > ------------------------------ > *From:* Ed Warnicke <hagb...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, November 16, 2017 4:47:14 PM > *To:* Gabriel Ganne > *Cc:* vpp-dev; Dave Barach (dbarach); Nicolas Bouthors; > csit-...@lists.fd.io; Vanessa Valderrama > *Subject:* Re: [vpp-dev] vpp continuous integration on armv8 > > Gabriel, > > This is awesome news! > > Do I understand correctly that these ThunderX boards are intended to be > used for build/make test/packaging? If so, I've cced in Vanessa, our > fearless sysadmin to help in figuring these things out :) > > Do you have opinions about which Linux distributions you want to package > for (Ubuntu?, Centos?) and versions? > > Ed > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:27 AM Gabriel Ganne <gabriel.ga...@enea.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > We've been working on preparing vpp for armv8 continuous testing (See > https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/AArch64 > <https://url10.mailanyone.net/v1/?m=1eFMO4-0003qy-3d&i=57e1b682&c=-ZITzwi6PGNT2EzKomkJRJ6M-7hD63QeHKT6tMIqMLSnlkmDUD9MfhdhuIw6iWayvj9HXr-SEr3zZlMt-TaTcUZhFRPyigiDDt7sfjQQxA8ESJIAyB06-QLH18FYzLWPwjJl8nmFi7D4ZD-9MfHHGQSEhj7_dqJNULEmezdjyETUcv28RNlzXlyC41ndbFhGIHD4TronLGLM7RL1QTG-dT2eyoBI4hyNrzA8GVmPHHM> > ), > > and we think that we now have everything which is required to add arm as > ci platform in the vpp review process (build, test and packaging). All the > test have been done on "native". > > Also 3 thunderX platforms sent by ARM should have arrived yesterday in the > fdio lab. > > I *think* that all that is required should be to set the platforms with > VMs on it, and add them as build slaves. > > > How should we proceed from here ? > > > -- > Gabriel Ganne > > > _______________________________________________ > vpp-dev mailing list > vpp-dev@lists.fd.io > https://lists.fd.io/mailman/listinfo/vpp-dev > <https://url10.mailanyone.net/v1/?m=1eFMO4-0003qy-3d&i=57e1b682&c=O-sOs62iGkWatuIJLF4pSNDFFDG_8um2QvdTETSQnD4jA_r85x5l3Bf9qR7RJOonGi8xR9maOtNIkz_rsQpdGbKdnto4CMf5I6HVz8Fuvf8O0wwee8-H8NvmJBdthBWC63GiIordZqRTRpRonu_3HYVrEaz6pXyeEfp8SJT-AIJcmOBjMOnpVKHsnhio6kL9OijBIEROG5XpLW17H5dWsTPN_m3L28C7CUR0SBZauSoF89B0-0AT5GkPjJWEt4UQ> > >
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