Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/15] Unit tests fixes for CI

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:46:03PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
>    On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:02 PM Bruce Richardson
>    <[1]bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> 
>      On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 08:42:15AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
>      > This is a joint effort to make the unit tests ready for CI.
>      > The first patches are fixes that I had accumulated.
>      > Then the second part of the series focuses on skipping tests when
>      some
>      > requirements are not fulfilled so that we can start them in a
>      restrained
>      > environment like Travis virtual machines that gives us two cores
>      and does
>      > not have specific hw devices.
>      >
>      > We are still not ready for enabling those tests in Travis.
>      > At least, the following issues remain:
>      > - some fixes on librte_acl have not been merged yet [1],
>      > - the tests on --file-prefix are still ko, and have been isolated
>      in a
>      >   test that we could disable while waiting for the fixes,
>      > - rwlock_autotest and hash_readwrite_lf_autotest are taking a
>      little more
>      >   than 10s,
>      > - librte_table unit test crashes on ipv6 [2],
>      > - the "perf" tests are taking way too long for my taste,
>      > - the shared build unit tests all fail when depending on mempool
>      since
>      >   the mempool drivers are not loaded,
>      >
>      For the autotest app shared builds, it is probably worthwhile
>      linking in
>      all drivers explicitly to avoid issues like this.
> 
>    Yes, I'll look into this.
>    While at it, do you know why the i40e and ixgbe drivers are linked to
>    app/test in meson?
>    --

There are unit tests for the device-specific functions in those drivers, so
they need to be given at link time.

/Bruce