[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Make unit tests great again

[Anatoly Burakov]

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 conflicts with some of the earlier work on
autotests [1] [2] [3], but i think it presents a cleaner
solution for some of the problems highlighted by those patch
series. I can integrate those patches into this series if
need be.

[1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/40370/
[2] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/40371/
[3] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/40372/

Anatoly Burakov (7):
  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

 test/test/autotest.py        |  13 +-
 test/test/autotest_data.py   | 749 ++++++++++++++---------------------
 test/test/autotest_runner.py | 519 ++++++++++++------------
 3 files changed, 586 insertions(+), 695 deletions(-)

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