From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: "jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com" <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
"Eads, Gage" <gage.eads@intel.com>,
"hemant.agrawal@nxp.com" <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
"nipun.gupta@nxp.com" <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>,
"Ma, Liang J" <liang.j.ma@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] event/octeontx: move eventdev octeontx test to driver
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:39:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171213113954.GB74296@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171213112428.fcjxjtfy65zevqhj@Pavan-LT>
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 04:54:29PM +0530, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:34:28AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:19:51AM +0000, Van Haaren, Harry wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Pavan Nikhilesh [mailto:pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 7:27 PM
> > > > To: jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com; Richardson, Bruce
> > > > <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Van Haaren, Harry
> > > > <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>; Eads, Gage <gage.eads@intel.com>;
> > > > hemant.agrawal@nxp.com; nipun.gupta@nxp.com; Ma, Liang J
> > > > <liang.j.ma@intel.com>
> > > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com>
> > > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] event/octeontx: move eventdev octeontx test
> > > > to driver
> > > >
> > > > Move octeontx eventdev specific test (test_eventdev_octeontx.c) to
> > > > driver/event/octeontx.
> > >
> > > <snip patch content>
> > >
> > > Replying to 1st patch, as no cover letter;
> > >
> > > Summary of patchset:
> > > - Move tests for a specific Eventdev PMD into the PMD dir: drivers/event/x/x_selftest.c
> > > - Enable self tests to run when passed the vdev arg "self-test=1"
> > >
> > >
> > > A few comments on this change;
> > >
> > > 1) We should not lose the capability to run tests as part of the existing unit testing infrastructure. We should not fragment the testing tool - requiring multiple binaries to test a single component.
> > >
> > > From discussion on #IRC, it seems reasonable to call rte_eal_vdev_init() with "self-test=1" from the test/test/ code, and then we can continue to use the existing test infrastructure despite that the actual tests are now part of each PMD.
> > >
> > > 2) We should not copy/paste TEST_ASSERT macros into new test files. Abstracting the TEST_ASSERT and other macros out to a header file would solve this duplication.
> > >
> > >
> > > Specific comments will be sent as replies to the patches. Cheers, -Harry
> >
> > What I gather from a cursory glance at this set is that the self tests
> > are designed to be triggered via devargs to the device driver, correct?
> > I'm not sure I like this approach, though I do agree with having the
> > tests inside the individual drivers.
> >
> > What I think I would prefer to see is the self-tests being called via an
> > API rather than via devargs. I think we should add a
> > "rte_event_dev_self_test()" API to the eventdev library, and have that
> > then call into the driver-provided tests. This means that self-tests can
> > only be called by applications which are set up to allow the tests to be
> > called, e.g. the autotest binary, while also avoiding the issue of
> > having lots of driver specifics clutter up test binaries.
>
> Agreed, will modify it to ops based scheme so that application can call driver
> specific `event_dev_self_test` and register selftest in
> test/test/test_eventdev.c.
>
> Although we would like to retain devargs selftest scheme for event_octeontx. I
> will remove it for event_sw. Does that sound good?
>
Sure, sounds good to me.
Thanks,
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-13 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 19:27 Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-12 19:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/7] event/octeontx: modify octeontx eventdev test Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-12 19:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/7] event/octeontx: add selftest to device arguments Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-12 19:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/7] event/sw: move eventdev sw test to driver Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-13 10:22 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-12-12 19:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/7] event/sw: modify eventdev sw test Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-12 19:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/7] event/sw: add selftest to device arguments Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-12 19:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/7] doc: update eventdev documentation Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-13 13:48 ` Kovacevic, Marko
2017-12-13 10:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] event/octeontx: move eventdev octeontx test to driver Van Haaren, Harry
2017-12-13 10:34 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-12-13 11:24 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2017-12-13 11:39 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2017-12-13 11:19 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2017-12-13 11:41 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-12-13 15:50 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/11] eventdev: move eventdev pmd specific tests into the pmd dir Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/11] eal: add common test assert macros Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-14 18:43 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-12-15 9:04 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2017-12-15 10:58 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-12-15 11:32 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2018-01-10 19:16 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-01-10 20:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/11] eventdev: add API to perform self test Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-19 15:45 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/11] event/octeontx: move eventdev octeontx test to driver Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/11] event/octeontx: modify octeontx eventdev test Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/11] event/octeontx: update octeontx eventdev selftest ops Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/11] event/octeontx: add selftest to device arguments Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/11] event/sw: move eventdev software test to driver Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/11] event/sw: modify eventdev software test Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-19 15:44 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/11] event/sw: update software eventdev selftest ops Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-19 15:46 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/11] test: register eventdev selftest Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-19 15:27 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-12-19 18:44 ` Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-20 11:07 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-12-14 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/11] doc: update eventdev documentation Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/11] eal: add common test assert macros Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 02/11] eventdev: add API to perform self test Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 9:56 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-01-08 10:34 ` Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 03/11] event/octeontx: move eventdev octeontx test to driver Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 9:58 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 04/11] event/octeontx: modify octeontx eventdev test Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-26 14:11 ` Neil Horman
2017-12-27 5:18 ` Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 05/11] event/octeontx: update octeontx eventdev selftest ops Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 10:09 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 06/11] event/octeontx: add selftest to device arguments Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 10:14 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 07/11] event/sw: move eventdev software test to driver Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 08/11] event/sw: modify eventdev software test Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 09/11] event/sw: update software eventdev selftest ops Pavan Nikhilesh
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 10/11] test: register eventdev selftest Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 9:49 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-12-25 19:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 11/11] doc: update eventdev documentation Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 11:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/11] eal: add common test assert macros Jerin Jacob
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 02/11] eventdev: add API to perform self test Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 03/11] event/octeontx: move eventdev octeontx test to driver Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 04/11] event/octeontx: modify octeontx eventdev test Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 05/11] event/octeontx: update octeontx eventdev selftest ops Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 06/11] event/octeontx: add selftest to device arguments Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 07/11] event/sw: move eventdev software test to driver Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 08/11] event/sw: modify eventdev software test Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 09/11] event/sw: update software eventdev selftest ops Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 10/11] test: register eventdev selftest Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-08 13:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 11/11] doc: update eventdev documentation Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-10 20:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 01/11] eal: add common test assert macros Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-11 7:11 ` Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 02/11] eventdev: add API to perform self test Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 03/11] event/octeontx: move eventdev octeontx test to driver Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 04/11] event/octeontx: modify octeontx eventdev test Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 05/11] event/octeontx: update octeontx eventdev selftest ops Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 06/11] event/octeontx: add selftest to device arguments Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 07/11] event/sw: move eventdev software test to driver Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 08/11] event/sw: modify eventdev software test Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 09/11] event/sw: update software eventdev selftest ops Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 10/11] test: register eventdev selftest Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 11/11] doc: update eventdev documentation Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 11:27 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-01-11 10:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 01/11] eal: add common test assert macros Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-01-11 10:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
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