17/07/2018 18:00, Reshma Pattan: > Previously, unit tests were running in groups. There were technical reasons > why that was the case (mostly having to do with limiting memory), but it was > hard to maintain and update the autotest script. > > In 18.05, limiting of memory at DPDK startup was no longer necessary, as DPDK > allocates memory at runtime as needed. This has the implication that the old > test grouping can now be retired and replaced with a more sensible way of > running unit tests (using multiprocessing pool of workers and a queue of > tests). This patchset accomplishes exactly that. > > This patchset merges changes done in [1], [2] > > [1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/40370/ > [2] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40373/ > > Removed unused and duplicate make rules for test-basic, > test-mempool, test-ring from make file system in patch 10/10. > > v4: Removed unused and duplicate make rules for test-basic, > test-mempool, test-ring from make file system in patch 10/10. > > Reshma Pattan (10): > autotest: fix printing > autotest: fix invalid code on reports > autotest: make autotest runner python 2/3 compliant > autotest: visually separate different test categories > autotest: improve filtering > autotest: remove autotest grouping > autotest: properly parallelize unit tests > autotest: update autotest test case list > mk: update make targets for classified testcases > mk: remove unnecessary make rules of test
Patches 1 to 7 are from Anatoly. Patches 8 and 9 were initiated by Jananee. Please fix authorship of these patches. Note: it should not happen if you use git-am to get the patches.
