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[Xavier Jeannin <>]

Welcome back Alexander

Thank you for the feedback

Regards
Xavier

Le 13/12/2022 à 18:10, mc36 a écrit :
> 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.
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