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.richard...@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 <bl...@debian.org> -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
