[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 8/9] autotest: update autotest test case list

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Tue Jul 17 12:10:51 CEST 2018


On 17-Jul-18 10:45 AM, Pattan, Reshma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Burakov, Anatoly
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:23 AM
>> To: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pattan at intel.com>; thomas at monjalon.net;
>> dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: Parthasarathy, JananeeX M <jananeex.m.parthasarathy at intel.com>;
>> stable at dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] autotest: update autotest test case list
>>
>> On 17-Jul-18 10:18 AM, Pattan, Reshma wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Burakov, Anatoly
>>>> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 4:16 PM
>>>> To: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pattan at intel.com>; thomas at monjalon.net;
>>>> dev at dpdk.org
>>>> Cc: Parthasarathy, JananeeX M <jananeex.m.parthasarathy at intel.com>;
>>>> stable at dpdk.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] autotest: update autotest test case list
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> +        {
>>>>> +        "Name":    "Set rxtx mode",
>>>>> +        "Command": "set_rxtx_mode",
>>>>> +        "Func":    default_autotest,
>>>>> +        "Report":  None,
>>>>> +    },
>>>>> +    {
>>>>> +        "Name":    "Set rxtx anchor",
>>>>> +        "Command": "set_rxtx_anchor",
>>>>> +        "Func":    default_autotest,
>>>>> +        "Report":  None,
>>>>> +    },
>>>>> +    {
>>>>> +        "Name":    "Set rxtx sc",
>>>>> +        "Command": "set_rxtx_sc",
>>>>> +        "Func":    default_autotest,
>>>>> +        "Report":  None,
>>>>> +    },
>>>>
>>>> The above three tests don't look like autotests to me. I have no idea
>>>> what they are for, but either they need a special function, or they
>>>> need to be taken out.
>>>>
>>>
>>> These commands needs to be run manually from test cmd prompt to
>> various set rxtx mode, rxtx rate and rxtx direction .
>>> These can be used to verify pmd perf test  with vaiours set of above values.
>>>
>>> So this can be removed from autotest.
>>
>> We do have PMD perf tests in the script - do they call these functions?
>> If they are required for PMD autotests, maybe PMD autotests deserve a
>> special test function calling these commands before running the tests?
>>
>> (if they also work without these commands, then we can perhaps postpone
>> this to 18.11)
>>
> 
> I ran pmd perf test manually and it passes without having to use above set_rxtx commands.
> 
> Thanks,
> Reshma
> 
Great.

Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly


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