Re: [PATCH 1/2] CI: switch to the new runner

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:32:36 +0300
schrieb Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>:

> Switch CI from legacy runner removed in Avocado 97.0 to the nrunner.
> To make it run serialized limit maximum task count to 1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>
> ---
>  scripts/ci_build.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/ci_build.sh b/scripts/ci_build.sh
> index b1ec691..fa7208c 100755
> --- a/scripts/ci_build.sh
> +++ b/scripts/ci_build.sh
> @@ -143,5 +143,5 @@ export VIRTUAL_ENV="./"
>  set -x
>  
>  avocado $VERBOSE run "$TESTSUITE_DIR/citest.py" \
> -    -t $TAGS --test-runner=runner --disable-sysinfo \
> +    -t $TAGS --nrunner-max-parallel-tasks=1 --disable-sysinfo \

Why 1 and not 42 or nproc? Because our tests are written in a way that
they build onto each other, so we lack modularization and are pretty
much still on a monolith like back in the shell age?

Henning

>      -p quiet=$QUIET -p cross=$CROSS_BUILD -p time_to_wait=$TIMEOUT