From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [EXTERNAL] [edk2-devel] Information about the VMs used to do EDK2 CI? To: Bret Barkelew ,devel@edk2.groups.io From: "Sean" X-Originating-Location: Redmond, Washington, US (50.35.74.15) X-Originating-Platform: Windows Chrome 82 User-Agent: GROUPS.IO Web Poster MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 09:41:35 -0700 References: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <4287.1584808895303845810@groups.io> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="y6BRDf5IDDrq70W834D1" --y6BRDf5IDDrq70W834D1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rebecca - I think for any platform testing it would make more sense to use = self hosted agents.=C2=A0 They could even be your own VM.=C2=A0 QEMU and em= ulator might be the two where we could explore using the DevOps VMs but I w= orry we will spend too much time downloading and install dependencies since= the VM is clean on each run. We can detect the number of threads available and call make with the assoc= iated parameters.=C2=A0 That might help speed it up and would be safe to us= e. The doc says they are DS2v2 instances which have the following. TABLE 2 Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max data disks Max ca= ched and temp storage throughput: IOPS/MBps (cache size in GiB) Max uncache= d disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps) Sta= ndard_DS2_v2 2 7 14 8 8000/64 (86) 6400/96 2/1500 --y6BRDf5IDDrq70W834D1 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rebecca - I think for any platform testing it would make more sense to use = self hosted agents.  They could even be your own VM.  QEMU and em= ulator might be the two where we could explore using the DevOps VMs but I w= orry we will spend too much time downloading and install dependencies since= the VM is clean on each run.  

We can detect the numb= er of threads available and call make with the associated parameters. = That might help speed it up and would be safe to use. 

The= doc says they are DS2v2 instances which have the following. 
TABLE 2
Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max data disks Max cached and temp storage throughput: IOPS/MBps (c= ache size in GiB) Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
               
Standard_DS2_v2 2 7 14 8 8000/64 (86) 6400/96 2/1500
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