[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/9] Make unit tests great again

[Reshma Pattan]

Previously, unit tests were running in groups. There were technical reasons why that was the case (mostly having to do with limiting memory), but it was hard to maintain and update the autotest script.

In 18.05, limiting of memory at DPDK startup was no longer necessary, as DPDK allocates memory at runtime as needed. This has the implication that the old test grouping can now be retired and replaced with a more sensible way of running unit tests (using multiprocessing pool of workers and a queue of tests). This patchset accomplishes exactly that.

This patchset merges changes done in [1], [2]

[1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/40370/
[2] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40373/

v3: Moved all dump tests together to the end of the parallel list.
    Updated the commit message about PCI auto test removal.
    Removed the unnecessary changes of the patch
    http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40371/

Reshma Pattan (9):
  autotest: fix printing
  autotest: fix invalid code on reports
  autotest: make autotest runner python 2/3 compliant
  autotest: visually separate different test categories
  autotest: improve filtering
  autotest: remove autotest grouping
  autotest: properly parallelize unit tests
  autotest: update autotest test case list
  mk: update make targets for classified testcases

 mk/rte.sdkroot.mk            |    4 +-
 mk/rte.sdktest.mk            |   33 +-
 test/test/autotest.py        |   13 +-
 test/test/autotest_data.py   | 1099 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 test/test/autotest_runner.py |  519 ++++++++++----------
 5 files changed, 966 insertions(+), 702 deletions(-)

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