From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] app/test: allow passing a parameter string to autotests
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 17:29:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241007172955.0fe5a4b4@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231215130656.247582-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:06:56 +0000
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> Sometimes it can be nice to have autotests which can take a parameter,
> or can be tweaked in some ways, e.g. adjust the number of iterations, or
> the burst size used in the test. Currently there is no way to do so -
> all test parameters are hardcoded, which makes sense for a generic
> regression test to be run quickly, but is a bit lacking for those
> looking to use unit tests for investigations.
>
> To that end, we can all the commandline to accept an additional string
> parameter after each autotest name, and make that available via global
> variable. Any test which wishes to make use of this can do so, to allow
> overriding test defaults.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
LGTM
Maybe add an example to an existing test
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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2023-12-15 13:06 Bruce Richardson
2024-02-21 11:02 ` Morten Brørup
2024-10-08 0:29 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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