[Xen-devel] arndales, armhf osstest capacity

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In "[OSSTEST PATCH 00/62] Update to Debian stable (stretch)" I wrote:

>  * I experienced difficulties with the 4 Arndale devboards: high
>    probability guest start failures.  For now I have marked those
>    nodes as unsuitable for use with stretch, which will, effectively,
>    take them out of service - and leave us with a lack of armhf
>    capacity.  It is possible that this problem is due to the
>    ifupdown-hotplug issue, now addressed, so I plan to retest.

I forced pushed this series earlier.  So the arndales are now out of
service and soon we will have to do something about the problems with
armhf capacity.

I reran the tests with a version of osstest bodged to let it run on
hosts not flagged as useable with stretch, and:

  flight 134631 osstest play [commission-arndale]
  http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/134631/

  Failures :-/ but no regressions.

  Tests which did not succeed,
  including tests which could not be run:
   test-armhf-armhf-examine      5 host-install          broken baseline 
untested

The arndales were unreliable before.  But this one seems odd.  It
doesn't seem to find its storage.

   test-armhf-armhf-libvirt     12 guest-start             fail baseline 
untested
   test-armhf-armhf-xl          12 guest-start             fail baseline 
untested
   test-armhf-armhf-xl-multivcpu 12 guest-start            fail baseline 
untested
   test-armhf-armhf-xl-credit2  12 guest-start             fail baseline 
untested
   test-armhf-armhf-xl-credit1  12 guest-start             fail baseline 
untested
   test-armhf-armhf-xl-rtds     12 guest-start             fail baseline 
untested
   test-armhf-armhf-xl-arndale  12 guest-start             fail baseline 
untested

This is the real problem.  Only 2 of the tests actually got further
than this.  It works fine with the cubietrucks.

Julien and Stefano, would you be able to look at this and advise ?

   test-armhf-armhf-libvirt-raw 13 saverestore-support-check fail baseline 
untested
   test-armhf-armhf-libvirt-raw 12 migrate-support-check        fail   never 
pass
   test-armhf-armhf-xl-vhd      12 migrate-support-check        fail   never 
pass
   test-armhf-armhf-xl-vhd      13 saverestore-support-check    fail   never 
pass

These are the expected lack of save/migration support on ARM.

On the plus side, the two ThunderX machines are now in service.

Thanks,
Ian.

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