One concern I have is sustainability. If only one Impala contributor can work with ppc64le, and that contributor is not as seasoned as some of the other committers, what happens if ppc64le breaks and the one person with VM access can't fix it?
Part of my concern is just how flaky the current tests are, too. It takes some time to be able to distinguish broken tests that are flaky and broken tests that are the result of a specific commit. My hope was that with a ppc64le VM (maybe through Qemu?) that runs on x86-64 Linux, the other contributors could help fix things that broke on that platform. On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Marcel Kornacker <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Henry Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 9:09 AM Tim Armstrong <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I feel like we shouldn't make PPC part of pre-commit at least > initially - > > > it's an unreasonable barrier if contributors/committers to debug issues > > on > > > a platform they don't have easy access to. Having the testing infra is > > > still important because we don't want to have code in there that will > > > gradually bit-rot without us noticing. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Silvius Rus <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Would it make sense to _not_ run PPC tests as part of presubmit? > > Instead > > > > Valencia could set up nightly tests using in-house infrastructure. > And > > > > share the test results, e.g., by sending them to a new email list > > > > [email protected] (that we'd need to create) so > > everyone > > > > can see when there are failures or if coverage stops for whatever > > reason. > > > > GCC has been doing something like this for long, > > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2017-04/. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Jim Apple <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Locally, I work on native-toolchain using a VM configured with > > > > > > Ubuntu16.04ppc64le, 4GB RAM and 50GB of HDD. If we provide you a > > VM > > > > with > > > > > > this config, will it be sufficient ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What hypervisor/emulator will it use? > > > > > > > > > > What are the requirements of the host OS and host hardware? > > > > > > > > > > Why is the config you have it set to so important that you mention > it > > > in > > > > > your email - will the config be locked down into that config or can > > it > > > be > > > > > reconfigured later? > > > > > > > > > > How is the VM controlled from the host OS? Keep in mind that a GUI > > > cannot > > > > > be the only option for automated tests. > > > > > > > > > > FWIW, Impala's test suite probably cannot fully complete without at > > > least > > > > > 8, and I suspect 16, GB of RAM, and we might need more disk space, > > too, > > > > but > > > > > these should be reconfigurable with most hypervisors/emulators. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Henry Robinson > > Software Engineer > > Cloudera > > 415-994-6679 > > >
