Thanks for the review, On 23 May 2016 at 12:49, Andy Zhou <az...@ovn.org> wrote: >> @@ -101,6 +101,14 @@ To run the unit tests, you also need: >> - Perl. Version 5.10.1 is known to work. Earlier versions should >> also work. >> >> +The "system" tests for userspace and Linux datapaths also rely upon: > > Should we just stick with "Datapath testing"
Sure, I'll update this. >> -Vagrant >> -------- >> +Datapath traffic testing > > How about drop "traffic" from the title. More datapath features can be > tested using > this framework without sending any traffic through, right? True, I'll drop it. >> +### Native >> + >> +The datapath testsuite as invoked by Vagrant above may also be run >> +manually on a Linux system with root privileges. If some tests are >> +being skipped, consider updating your iproute2 package and Linux kernel >> +version. > > This is not clear to me. Which part? The second sentence is a bit of a tangent and could be dropped. >> >> These tests may take several minutes to complete, and cannot be >> +run in parallel. >> >> + >> +To invoke the system testsuite with the userspace datapath: >> + >> + make check-system-userspace >> + >> +Make targets are also provided for testing the Linux kernel module. >> +Note that these tests operate by inserting modules into the running >> +Linux kernel, so if the tests are able to trigger a bug in the OVS >> +kernel module or in the upstream kernel then the kernel may panic. >> + >> +To run the testsuite against the kernel module which is currently >> +installed on your system: >> + >> + make check-kernel >> + >> +To install the kernel module from the current build directory and >> +run the testsuite against that kernel module: >> + >> + make check-kmod >> + >> +The testsuite logs will be placed in tests/system-userspace-traffic.log >> +for the userspace target, or tests/system-kmod-traffic.log for the >> +kernel targets. > > > May be it will be clearer to separately discuss kernel datapath and user > space > datapath? Sure, I can split this out. >> + >> Continuous Integration with Travis-CI >> ------------------------------------- >> >> -- >> 2.8.2 >> > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
