12/10/2018 19:42, Luca Boccassi: > 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>
Applied, thanks
