Re: [dpdk-ci] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/14] Unit tests fixes for CI

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

04/06/2019 17:49, Michael Santana Francisco:
> On 6/4/19 4:59 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> > - the "perf" tests are taking way too long for my taste,
> 
> We should still fix them. However I don't know if we should be running 
> the perf test for every job and every patch on travis. It takes too 
> long. The travis queue will be delayed too far behind for it to be of 
> any use.
> 
> OTOH we could have one job as part of the travis build dedicated to 
> running tests (or just perf test). It's still time consuming but better 
> than running the test on every travis job. For this to work we would 
> need to decreased the timeout for the perf tests as the timeout for it 
> and the travis are both 10 minutes

+Cc ci@dpdk.org

I don't think we should run the perf tests in basic CI like Travis.
We can run perf tests if the purpose is to compare the performance
with previous releases, as some other tests in the community lab.