Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: enable vm env for aarch64 builds

["Juraj Linkeš" <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 4:18 PM
> To: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech>
> Cc: thomas@monjalon.net; david.marchand@redhat.com;
> maicolgabriel@hotmail.com; dev@dpdk.org; Kevin Laatz
> <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ci: enable vm env for aarch64 builds
> 
> Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech> writes:
> 
> > Tests requiring hugepages do not work outside of VM environment
> > because of security limitations. Enable aarch64 builds which run tests
> > to run in a VM to avoid these limitations.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech>
> > ---
> 
> Cool!
> 
> Globally we have dist: set to 'bionic'.  Does it make sense to upgrade all the
> distributions to 'focal' ?  What is the rationale for not using 'bionic'?
> 

I tried bionic, but it ran with focal anyway, so the rationale is 'not supported for arm vm environments'. This was released for early adopters, so they may expand the support to bionic later.

> >  .travis.yml | 10 ++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml index d6eeab371..d73d3e4c5
> > 100644
> > --- a/.travis.yml
> > +++ b/.travis.yml
> > @@ -88,7 +88,10 @@ jobs:
> >      arch: arm64
> >      compiler: gcc
> >    - env: DEF_LIB="shared" RUN_TESTS=1
> > -    arch: arm64
> > +    dist: focal
> > +    arch: arm64-graviton2
> > +    virt: vm
> > +    group: edge
> >      compiler: gcc
> >    - env: DEF_LIB="shared" BUILD_DOCS=1
> >      arch: arm64
> > @@ -103,5 +106,8 @@ jobs:
> >      arch: arm64
> >      compiler: clang
> >    - env: DEF_LIB="shared" RUN_TESTS=1
> > -    arch: arm64
> > +    dist: focal
> > +    arch: arm64-graviton2
> > +    virt: vm
> > +    group: edge
> >      compiler: clang
>