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From: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
To: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: "Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 17.05] test: move tests to separate folder
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:51:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <080F0ECF-A6F5-48E0-A2C8-56D51DCDF210@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170214154131.GA20524@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com>


> On Feb 14, 2017, at 9:41 AM, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 03:13:26PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> Tests are part of app folder and compiled with library every time.
>> Moving tests into a "test" folder which won't be compiled by default.
>> To compile tests, need to give explicit "make test" command.
>> 
>> "make test" was previously used to run tests, which renamed to
>> "make test_run" with this patch.
>> 
>> This makes default compilation ~30% faster,
>> [clang, make -j8, old]: real    1m04.355s
>> [clang, make -j8, new]: real    0m41.740s
>> 
>> For new case, test needs to built separately, which takes,
>> [clang, make -j8 test]: real    0m24.293s
>> 
>> The point is tests are not required always and by every one.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>> ---
> 
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
> I'm not sure I'm convinced by this, as I think there are advantages to
> having the test code always compiled. Anything that is not compiled in
> DPDK by default is more likely to be broken by patch submissions. The
> speed boost to build is nice, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
> However, I'm open to being convinced otherwise on this...
> 
> /Bruce

I am kind of in the same boat as Bruce on the tests, but I was thinking the other applications in the app directory pretty much use most of the APIs, right? If that is the case then I would agree with Ferruh.

Regards,
Keith

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-14 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14 15:13 Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-14 15:41 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-02-14 15:51   ` Wiles, Keith [this message]
2017-02-14 16:12   ` Mcnamara, John
2017-02-15  9:03     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-14 17:07   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-14 17:30     ` Richardson, Bruce
2017-02-15  2:11       ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-02-15 10:06         ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 11:16           ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-15 11:28             ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-14 16:15 ` Mcnamara, John
2017-02-15 15:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] " Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 15:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] mk: do not build tests by default Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 16:58     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-15 17:30       ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16  8:53         ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-16 10:07           ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 15:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] mk: add new test-run make rule Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-15 17:07     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-02-15 17:41       ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16  9:08         ` Bruce Richardson
2017-02-16  9:26     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-16 10:21       ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 10:44         ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-15 15:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] mk: rename test related make rules Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16  9:10   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] test: move tests to separate folder Bruce Richardson
2017-02-16 14:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] " Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 14:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/5] mk: do not build tests by default Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 14:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] mk: add new test-basic make rule Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 14:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] mk: rename test related make rules Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-16 14:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/5] doc: document test related make rules in make help Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-20 15:23       ` Mcnamara, John
2017-02-28 15:19     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] test: move tests to separate folder Thomas Monjalon

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