Hello- I get a different number of test results from libphobos.unittest/unittest.exp, depending on server load. I believe it's because this testsuite doesn't check runtest_file_p:
$ make -j 1 RUNTESTFLAGS='unittest.exp' check-target-libphobos | grep '^#' # of expected passes 10 $ make -j 2 RUNTESTFLAGS='unittest.exp' check-target-libphobos | grep '^#' # of expected passes 10 # of expected passes 10 $ make -j 4 RUNTESTFLAGS='unittest.exp' check-target-libphobos | grep '^#' # of expected passes 10 # of expected passes 10 # of expected passes 10 # of expected passes 10 When running in parallel along with other tests, even at a fixed argument for -j, the number of tests that actually execute will depend on how many of the parallel sub-makes happened to start prior to the first one finishing, hence it changes from run to run. The attached patch fixes it for me, if it looks OK? Thanks, this would remove some noise from before/after test comparisons. -Lewis
libphobos: Fix instability in the parallelized testsuite libphobos.unittest/unittest.exp calls bare dg-test rather than dg-runtest, and so it should call runtest_file_p to determine whether to run each test or not. Without that call, the tests run too many times in parallel mode (they will run as many times, as the argument to make -j). libphobos/ChangeLog: * testsuite/libphobos.unittest/unittest.exp: Call runtest_file_p prior to running each test. diff --git a/libphobos/testsuite/libphobos.unittest/unittest.exp b/libphobos/testsuite/libphobos.unittest/unittest.exp index 2a019caca8c..175decdc333 100644 --- a/libphobos/testsuite/libphobos.unittest/unittest.exp +++ b/libphobos/testsuite/libphobos.unittest/unittest.exp @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ foreach unit_test $unit_test_list { set expected_fail [lindex $unit_test 1] foreach test $tests { + if {![runtest_file_p $runtests $test]} { + continue + } set shouldfail $expected_fail dg-test $test "" $test_flags }