Thanks! It was the singe-threaded part that I was interested in. But
also, it sounds like for more complex/in-depth testing such as running
QEMU to do runtime validation and regression-testing of OVMF etc. we'll
want to set up our own agents, since the hosted ones are relatively
restrictive.

-- 
Rebecca Cran

On 2020-03-20 19:46, Bret Barkelew wrote:
>
> CI runs on the DevOps pool for ubuntu-latest and windows-latest,
> respectively…
>
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/0c8ea9fe1adbbee230ee0c68f28b68ca2b0534bc/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml#L16
>
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/0c8ea9fe1adbbee230ee0c68f28b68ca2b0534bc/.azurepipelines/Windows-VS2019.yml#L17
>
>  
>
> As for OS, it looks like this table is kept up-to-date:
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/hosted?view=azure-devops#use-a-microsoft-hosted-agent
>
>  
>
> I **think** they may be assumed to be single-threaded and parallelism
> is accomplished via “jobs”:
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/hosted?view=azure-devops#capabilities-and-limitations
>
> (@Sean <mailto:sean.brogan@microsoft.com> may correct me on that)
>
>  
>
> What details do you need and I’ll try to find them. 😊
>
>  
>
> - Bret
>
>  
>
> *From: *Rebecca Cran via Groups.Io <mailto:rebecca=bsdio.com@groups.io>
> *Sent: *Friday, March 20, 2020 6:33 PM
> *To: *devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>
> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] [edk2-devel] Information about the VMs used to
> do EDK2 CI?
>
>  
>
> I was wondering if it might be possible to get information about the VMs
> used to run EDK2 CI?
>
> For example I noticed the Edk2ToolsBuild.py script doesn't try and build
> BaseTools in parallel, causing it to take 45 seconds - whereas it takes
> around 10 when run with "make -j4" and 6 with "make -j16". However,
> without knowing the specifications of the VMs used, I'm not sure if I
> should work on optimizing things like that to run better.
>
>
> -- 
> Rebecca Cran
>
>
>
> 
>
>  
>