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[mc36 <>]

hi,
welcome back! sorry for breaking the builds again! :)
i'll keep it in mind when changing a thing in the future!
thanks,
cs


On 12/13/22 17:33, Alexander Gall wrote:
> Hi Xavier, csaba
>
> Unfortunately, the builds on the Hydra CI started to fail on October
> 23. The updates to the p4 code added by
> https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/projects/RARE/repos/rare/commits/5b0e7593899e2271df3f654a14cf62ab440edba6
> appears to have been broken completely due to a missing p4 header
> file.  That was fixed in an update on October 27 but those changes
> also broke the builds for Tofino2 for some profiles due to table sizes
> that were too large to fit in the ingress pipeline. As a consequence,
> tna-install-latest and tna-install-experimental could not fetch the
> pre-built artifacts from the binary cache, hence the fallback to
> building from source on the target device, which requires access to
> the SDE and BSP source code :(
>
> It seems like basically *any* change to the p4 code, even really
> trivial ones, will make it necessary to re-run the optimizer for
> Tofino2. I honestly think that Intel is over-engineering the optimizer
> of the compiler to squeeze out more table space in the MAUs...
>
> @csaba: this means that we can no longer update the p4 code in the
> RARE repo before checking that it also compiles for Tofino2.
>
> I'll run the optimizer sometime this week to get back to a successful
> build.