Re: [PATCH 0/6] Shorten the runtime of some gitlab-CI shared runner jobs

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 30/1/23 11:44, Thomas Huth wrote:
> We're currently facing the problem that the gitlab-CI jobs for the
> shared runners take too much of the limited CI minutes on gitlab.com.
> Here are now some patches that optimize some of the jobs a little bit
> to take less runtime. We slightly lose some test coverage by some of
> these changes (e.g. by dropping ppc-softmmu from a Clang-based test
> and only continue testing ppc64-softmmu with Clang in another job),
> but that should still be much better than running out of CI minutes
> after 3/4 of a month.

FWIW the last time I wanted to add some tests Alex suggested me to
run a before/after gcov report and justify the new path tested.

Maybe we should enforce something similar, either cover new paths
or fix a bug.