Thanks for the info, Rahul!

Is there any way to specify a different compiler (e.g., clang) when
building on kokoro?

Thanks,
Jason

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rahul Thakur <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Giacomo, Jason,
>
> Sorry for late reply.
> Re: tool chain - scons and python are available in the test environment
> AFAIK.
> Re: test throughput - How long does kokoro take to finish current
> presubmit test?
>
> If you have much longer tests to run at periodic frequency, say once in a
> few days, on HEAD, kokoro also has a periodic continuous build mode. Such
> test will send out email report, serving as a pulse check for ToT.
> Presubmit jobs will not be influenced. I can look in to periodic builds if
> it fits for gem5 long regression use case.
>
> RT
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 6:17 AM Giacomo Travaglini <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> I have seen patches being under review for a long time, and IMHO adding
>> an extra 10-30 mins is not the real bottleneck.
>> I'd rather wait a little bit more but being sure I am not breaking
>> anything...
>>
>> about ruby protocols, let me say that we (in arm) are relatively happy
>> with the current setup:
>>
>> 1) Quick regressions are run on a commit base (your presubmit.sh). This
>> means it won't take a lot of time/computation
>> 2) Long regressions (ruby protocols are tested here) are run every night
>> on a batch of MERGED commits.
>> Which means at a certain point we just checkout origin/HEAD and we run
>> long regressions.
>>
>> This is the setup I would actually recommend: a sanity suite (quick)
>> being run on a commit base, and more serious tests
>> (long) being run periodically. If you are scared about overloading the
>> framework, you can always scale down our ambition
>> and run long regressions every two nights.
>> Running less frequently is better than not running at all 🙂
>>
>> Please let me know what you think about this; other devs are welcome to
>> comment as well,
>>
>> Giacomo
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Jason Lowe-Power <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* 02 May 2019 22:59
>> *To:* Giacomo Travaglini; Rahul Thakur
>> *Cc:* gem5 Developer List
>> *Subject:* Re: [gem5-dev] Continuous integration is live!
>>
>> Hi Giacomo,
>>
>> In tests/main.py we call scons and use the current environment defaults
>> to build gem5. I don't know if the kokoro infrastructure supports other
>> compilers. This might be something that Rahul can address.
>>
>> I'm also not sure if we can find a way to run more compilations in
>> parallel on Kokoro. I'm happy to refactor the test scripts to do this.
>> However, as it is, we are currently compiling at least 4 binaries mostly
>> sequentially, which is making the testing take a significant amount of
>> time. If we add more compilers (and more Ruby protocols), this is going to
>> begin to get out of hand. It would also be good to compile .fast, .opt, and
>> .debug, but I believe we're only compiling .opt right now.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 5:53 AM Giacomo Travaglini <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> I understand; Another thing I would like to ask:
>>
>> Which script is building gem5 in jenkins? Ideally it would be nice to
>> build with BOTH gcc and clang (so that we avoid
>> periodic "fix clang build" patches. I would also make the version
>> configurable/visible from the script so that
>> we can track changes in compiler support and people can compare failures
>> in case they managed to build
>> seamlessly on their local workspace
>>
>> Giacomo
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Jason Lowe-Power <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* 26 April 2019 17:49
>> *To:* Giacomo Travaglini
>> *Cc:* gem5 Developer List
>> *Subject:* Re: [gem5-dev] Continuous integration is live!
>>
>> Hi Giacomo,
>>
>> You *do* have permission :). Anyone can modify
>> tests/jenkins/presubmit.cfg and presubmit.sh. In fact, if you look at the
>> history of the presubmit.sh, it *was* running the old tests. See
>> https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/testing/jenkins-gem5-prod/+/18028,
>> for instance.
>>
>> The problem is that we can't distribute most of the binaries (e.g., SPEC
>> binaries). We could probably upload them to a private location on the
>> Google Cloud and have jenkins consume them that way, but I believe that
>> will be more work than it's worth.
>>
>> I personally believe that putting effort into porting tests is more worth
>> everyone's time than trying to get the old tests to run, but that's just
>> my opinion. I'm happy to merge changes to run the old tests. I personally
>> believe we should only merge tests into the verification tester which
>> everyone can run locally, but I'm open to proprietary tests, especially in
>> the short term if we have a plan to make them not proprietary.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:36 AM Giacomo Travaglini <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> It's really amazing that we have a testing framework in place, thanks for
>> your effort!
>> At the moment as far as I can tell we are only running tests registered
>> within the new
>> testing library.
>>
>> I was wondering if we could temporarily enable the system to run legacy
>> quick regressions as well,
>> while waiting for porting those to the new library. I guess it is
>> something that shouldn't require a lot of work
>>
>> (just calling .util/regress I guess)
>>
>> I am saying this since a patch recently merged broke some syscall
>> emulation tests and I think it would
>> be beneficial for us to run the entire test suite straightaway while
>> porting tests manually.
>> I could even handle it myself if I had permission to configure the system.
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts,
>>
>> Giacomo
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* gem5-dev <[email protected]> on behalf of Jason
>> Lowe-Power <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* 16 April 2019 16:30
>> *To:* gem5 Developer List; Rahul Thakur
>> *Subject:* [gem5-dev] Continuous integration is live!
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We now have initial support for continuous integration testing! We should
>> all thank Google for donating the CPU time and infrastructure to run these
>> tests. Specifically, Rahul Thakur has been incredibly helpful for the past
>> two years in getting this off the ground. Thanks, Rahul and the rest of
>> the
>> team at Google who has been helping us set this up!
>>
>> Now, if you submit a patch to gerrit and receive a maintainer +1, "kokoro"
>> will kick off a build / test of gem5. Once that is complete, you will
>> receive a verified +1. If it fails, you will receive a verified -1. The
>> logs can be viewed by anyone once the job is completed by following the
>> link posted by kokoro (the https://source.cloud.google.com, not the
>> sponge
>> link). You can see an example on a patch I recently submitted here:
>> https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18068. Note that the
>> tests take a couple of hours to run. However, I believe there is no limit
>> to the number of different changes that can be tested at the same time.
>>
>> Soon, we are going to enable commit gating with the verified +1 tag. I.e.,
>> you will have to pass the continuous integration tests before you can
>> commit your code.
>>
>> Note that this is using the "new" testing infrastructure. You can run this
>> locally by running "./main.py" in the tests directory. More information
>> about how to run tests and add tests can be found in the TESTING.md file.
>> If there are any questions/issues do not hesitate to contact me or the
>> list. The documentation for the new infrastructure can still be improved.
>> Right now, we're running about 30 tests. You can find the tests that we
>> are
>> running in the tests/gem5 directory.
>>
>> We are looking for volunteers to help us port more of the old tests to the
>> new infrastructure and to expand the coverage of our tests. I'm happy to
>> help anyone get started on this and point out which tests still need to be
>> migrated, where our biggest coverage holes are, etc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
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