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David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:23 PM Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  This series is submitted as an RFC because a number of the unit tests are
>  not successful in the travis environment.  If all of them were passing,
>  this would be submitted as PATCH instead.  It could be accepted as-is but I
>  would prefer to see all the tests passing first.
>
>  The first patch fixes up the tests to auto-detect the number of cores on
>  a machine.  This helps on lower-end systems (such as i3 laptops or something)
>  where someone wants to verify the functionality.  The number of available
>  cores on the running system will be picked based on the running system
>  parameters.
>
>  The second patch moves some tests out - these tests don't produce output or
>  complete in any reasonable amount of time (10m+ for a single unit test is
>  a little strange - they should be investigated to see if the run time can
>  be reduced).  I prefer to see these separated out since travis will completely
>  bail if the test takes longer than 10m to produce output.
>
>  The third actually enables the testing, and runs each test leg independently.
>  This version populates the hugepages mapping.  However, it might be useful
>  to have the option of running without hugepages enabled (and I have a
>  separate series that can do this).  However, the --no-huge flag seems to cause
>  most of the unit tests to break since they either spawn a new instance of
>  the EAL without passing the hugepage flags, or check against the hugepage API
>  and use that to determine whether memory can be allocated.
>
>  Aaron Conole (3):
>    test/meson: auto detect number of cores
>    meson-tests: separate slower tests
>    ci: enable tests on non-arm platforms
>
>   .ci/linux-build.sh   |  7 +++++++
>   .ci/linux-setup.sh   |  6 +++++-
>   app/test/meson.build | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>   3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> I tried using meson/ninja for the tests, something that bothered me is that I can't interrupt the tests.
> I had to kill manually, meson, ninja and I had some leftover dpdk-test processes (maybe due to some ^Z I
> hit...).
> Is this expected ?

Certainly not by me.  I usually let everything complete, though (which
takes a looong time if I run the full suite).

> This is quite frustrating when testing "before" and "after" each patch.

Agreed.  :-/

I'll have to try it out to see what's happening.  Does it only happen
with this series?  I'd be surprised, but possibly I introduced some error.

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David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:23 PM Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  This series is submitted as an RFC because a number of the unit tests are
>  not successful in the travis environment.  If all of them were passing,
>  this would be submitted as PATCH instead.  It could be accepted as-is but I
>  would prefer to see all the tests passing first.
>
>  The first patch fixes up the tests to auto-detect the number of cores on
>  a machine.  This helps on lower-end systems (such as i3 laptops or something)
>  where someone wants to verify the functionality.  The number of available
>  cores on the running system will be picked based on the running system
>  parameters.
>
>  The second patch moves some tests out - these tests don't produce output or
>  complete in any reasonable amount of time (10m+ for a single unit test is
>  a little strange - they should be investigated to see if the run time can
>  be reduced).  I prefer to see these separated out since travis will completely
>  bail if the test takes longer than 10m to produce output.
>
>  The third actually enables the testing, and runs each test leg independently.
>  This version populates the hugepages mapping.  However, it might be useful
>  to have the option of running without hugepages enabled (and I have a
>  separate series that can do this).  However, the --no-huge flag seems to cause
>  most of the unit tests to break since they either spawn a new instance of
>  the EAL without passing the hugepage flags, or check against the hugepage API
>  and use that to determine whether memory can be allocated.
>
>  Aaron Conole (3):
>    test/meson: auto detect number of cores
>    meson-tests: separate slower tests
>    ci: enable tests on non-arm platforms
>
>   .ci/linux-build.sh   |  7 +++++++
>   .ci/linux-setup.sh   |  6 +++++-
>   app/test/meson.build | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>   3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> I tried using meson/ninja for the tests, something that bothered me is that I can't interrupt the tests.
> I had to kill manually, meson, ninja and I had some leftover dpdk-test processes (maybe due to some ^Z I
> hit...).
> Is this expected ?

Certainly not by me.  I usually let everything complete, though (which
takes a looong time if I run the full suite).

> This is quite frustrating when testing "before" and "after" each patch.

Agreed.  :-/

I'll have to try it out to see what's happening.  Does it only happen
with this series?  I'd be surprised, but possibly I introduced some error.