Quoting Dylan Baker (2018-12-19 13:56:18) > Hi list, > > I've been off and on working on a new test runner for piglit written in C++14. > Its been sitting on my gitlab publicly for a bit, and I've shared it with some > people at Intel, but I thought I'd send out an announcement and see if I could > get some more interest. It's called swineherd, and it lives here: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbaker/swineherd > > Swineherd currently is pretty limited, it still needs a lot of work to be a > replacement for the piglit runner, but it can run tests and get output, and > does > so much faster than the python runner. > > It currently can: > - read the gz compressed profile xml that piglit produces > - run tests > - get the output of tests > - write an uncompressed json file that piglit's summary tools can consume > - only builds and runs on Linux > > I have a few opened issues on the gitlab tracker for it, that I may or may not > get around to doing all of. > > I currently don't plan this to support every single option piglit does, > because > my main concern with swineherd is performance, I want this runner to be as > fast > as possible. Among the things I don't want to implement: > > - dmesg support. This forces serial test running and pauses between tests. > - reboot on failure support > - other things I haven't mentioned > > I'd be happy to take MRs for this, if you'd like to add things or fix things > :) > > I'm also opened to merging this into piglit proper, once I feel like it's > pretty > stable and has enough features to be generally useful. > > Dylan >
Since I sent this out I added support for include and exclude filters (the -t and -x options in piglit), and support for gzip compression of output. I did some tests and depending on the exact set of tests its somewhere between 20-50% faster on my 2 core 4 thread machine. Dylan
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