Re: Dovetail 7.1-rc6 updates pushed

Florian Bezdeka <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 2026-06-01 at 15:43 +0200, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> Florian Bezdeka <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi all,
>> > 
>> > I just pushed the following branch updates for Dovetail based on 7.1-
>> > rc6:
>> > 
>> > Dovetail:
>> > wip/flo/v7.1-dovetail-rebase
>> > wip/flo/v7.1-dovetail-rebase+riscv
>> > 
>> > Evl:
>> > wip/flo/v7.1-evl-rebase
>> > wip/flo/v7.1-evl-rebase+riscv
>> > 
>> > The +riscv branches are containing v8 of Tobias' riscv enabling series,
>> > maybe we need v9, let's see.
>> > 
>> > Any additional testing on those branches is highly appreciated.
>> > 
>> > @Philippe:
>> > I'm still waiting for some feedback for [1]. That seems now to be a
>> > invalid combination of kconfigs, which is dovetail specific. Upstream
>> > thread at [2].
>> > 
>> > Can you remember why KVM_INTEL is not selecting X86_FRED in case
>> > IRQ_PIPELINE is enabled? I haven't checked the details yet, nor tried to
>> > remove the dovetail specific adjustment.
>> > 
>> 
>> Maybe because the pipeline never supported X86_FRED, doing so would
>> required to rework the irq-entry trampoline macros, which is deemed
>> painful work.
>
> I sent out a RFC patch for that, input welcome.
>
> Meanwhile I can provide some updates on the testing part. The following
> problems seem to be reproducible on 7.1-rc5 and 7.1-rc6 - while 7.1-rc4
> was fine (at least once):
>
> x86   x3: Test timeout. Something seems slower than expected.
> arm64 x4: Same problem
>
> To rule out problems in our CI setup I spawned some 7.0 tests, which
> were fine, at least twice in a row. Seems someone has to look into that.
> As I'm running out of time: Any resources available?
>

Not here, at least not yet.

-- 
Philippe.