Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, Security Process, ...

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/07/18 19:02, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design 
> session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, 
> Security Process, ..."):
>> XenRT, which is XenServers provisioning and testing system and install,
>> can deploy arbitrary builds of XenServer, or arbitrary builds of various
>> Linux distros in 10 minutes (although for distros, we limit our install
>> media to published point releases).  Google "10 minutes to Xen" for some
>> PR on this subject done back in the day!
> 
> osstest's d-i runs take more like 15 minutes.  As I say, this could be
> improved by using something like FAI, but by a factor of at most 2 I
> think.  Instead of working on that, I have been working on reusing an
> install when it is feasible to do so: specifically, after a passing
> job and when the host is to be reused by the same flight, with an
> identical configuration.  In my tests that saves about 50% of the host
> installs.  I haven't yet completed and deployed this.
> 
> Ian.
> 
Just wondering, are there any timing statistics kept for the OSStest
flights (and separate for building the various components and running
the individual tests ?). Or should they be parse-able from the logs kept ?

That could perhaps give some better insight in the average and variation
in time spent into all the components.
--
Sander

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