Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test/test: allow taking extra arguments from environment

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 16:34 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> When running unit tests automatically, either via script, from meson,
> or otherwise, the same set of options may be used for each run, for
> example to set a standard coremask to be used for all tests.
> 
> To facilitate this, this patch adds support for the test binary
> taking
> additional EAL parameters from the environment and appending them to
> the
> argc/argv list passed to eal init. This allows parameter modification
> without having to edit test scripts etc.
> 
> There are now two environment variables which can be used for running
> tests:
>  * DPDK_TEST - (added previously) passes the test name to be run
>                automatically rather than running the app
> interactively.
>                Used by "meson test" when running tests individually
> or
>                as part of a suite.
> 
>  * DPDK_TEST_PARAMS - new parameter to specify the commandline
> arguments
>                to use with the test binary. For example to run a
> test,
>                or tests, on only 16 lcores, and to skip pci scan we
> can
>                set this to "-l 0-15 --no-pci".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst |  8 ++++++
>  test/test/test.c                       | 34
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Was just thinking that something like this would be useful!

Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi