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

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 05:05:26PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 at 08:39, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> It probably doesn't actually conflict, although I am not sure if one
> can add a tag to jobs that run on public runners.

I mean conceptually at least as it will likely be slower to build the
world as 10 jobs than as 4 jobs.

-- 
Tom
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