[Patchwork-maintainers] patchwork.ozlabs.org downtime for maintenance - 15/16 August

[Aaron Conole]

Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org> writes:

> Hi Ilya,
>
>> Ugh.  Yeah, the checks/ requests are definitely something we can
>> improve. Aaron is working on removing vast majority of this type of
>> requests as we speak.  Hopefully, that will be done soon.
>
> OK, sounds good!
>
>> Do you think it'll be fine to unban the robot once it doesn't run that
>> many requests on the checks/ API in particular?  (I expect the number
>> of requests to be less than a 100-ish per day after the fix.)
>
> Yes, definitely. I'm okay with unbanning it sooner, if it's doing useful
> stuff, and we can contain the load somewhat, and/or we need to test
> against production data.
>
> (more that I wasn't sure if it was a legitimate use of the API
> earlier, hence reducing the load via the nft rule)

While we are using those APIs, it is the only place where we have
difference between DPDK server and ozlabs server.  For DPDK patchwork,
they have a separate hook which processes the reports.  Ours is probably
much too simple to have let it run like this for as long as it has.

>> That might be useful, thanks!
>
> OK, I will send that separately.

Thanks.

> Cheers,
>
>
> Jeremy