Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Enable running parallel unit tests for Windows.

2015-02-11 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
> > Thanks for doing this. I really like changes that make it easier or > faster to run tests, because then developers are more likely to run > them. > > I don't think that "patch" is currently required to build OVS. I think > that it's reasonable to require it--it is such a common utility--but I

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Enable running parallel unit tests for Windows.

2015-02-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 02:16:51PM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > testsuite uses mkfifo in its job dispatcher that manages > parallel unit tests. MinGW does not have a mkfifo. This > results in unit tests running serially on Windows. Right > now it takes up to approximately 40 minutes to run all

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Enable running parallel unit tests for Windows.

2015-02-11 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
testsuite uses mkfifo in its job dispatcher that manages parallel unit tests. MinGW does not have a mkfifo. This results in unit tests running serially on Windows. Right now it takes up to approximately 40 minutes to run all the unit tests on Windows. This commit provides a job dispatcher for MinG