Re: [PATCH v6 00/25] xl / libxl: named PCI pass-through devices

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:02:50PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > The pipeline failed because the "fedora-gcc-debug" build failed with a
> > timeout: 
> > 
> > ERROR: Job failed: execution took longer than 1h0m0s seconds
> > 
> > given that all the other jobs passed (including the other Fedora job), I
> > take this failed because the gitlab-ci x86 runners were overloaded?
> > 
> 
> The CI system is configured to auto-scale as the number of jobs grows.
> The limit is set to 10 (VMs) at the moment.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-gitlab-ci/-/commit/832bfd72ea3a227283bf3df88b418a9aae95a5a4
> 
> I haven't looked at the log, but the number of build jobs looks rather
> larger than when we get started. Maybe the limit of 10 is not good
> enough?

Interesting! That's only for the x86 runners, not the ARM runners (we
only have 1 ARM64 runner), is that right?

If we could increase the number of VMs for x86 I think that would be
helpful because we have very many x86 jobs.