[PATCH] RFC: Add a tag for the world builds

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:33:46AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:

> Currently the world builds run on all runners, including faster and
> slower ones.
> 
> The difference can be quite dramatic, with some builders 4x as fast as
> others, resulting in just one world build taking between 20 minutes and
> an hour and 20 minutes.
> 
> Add a tag so that we can select which builders run these CPU-intensive
> jobs.
> 
> With this tag we can also increase CPU utilisation by running multiple
> QEMU tests in parallel. Currently these tests leave most machines fairly
> idle, since we cannot run more than one world build on a machine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

This conflicts I think with Jiaxun's desire to make our GitLab job
runnable on the public runners too, and where we'll end up with 10 world
build jobs ala Azure.

-- 
Tom
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