[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/14] test/eal: make the test pass again

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 11:49 AM Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
wrote:

> On 04-Jun-19 9:59 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> > From: Michael Santana <msantana at redhat.com>
> >
> > The eal_flags_autotest test currently fails due to a memory leak in the
> > timer library[1][2]. This failure occurs when the test calls one of its
> > subtests test_file_prefix().
> >
> > Fixing the memory leak is not trivial, so this patch is a workaround that
> > makes the eal_flags_autotest test pass. This is accomplished by moving
> the
> > test_file_prefix test to its own test unit. This is a temporary measure
> > until the leak is fixed.
> >
> > [1] http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/53268/
> > [2] http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/53334/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Santana <msantana at redhat.com>
> > ---
>
> There is now a patchset that fixes the leak [1], so this may not be
> necessary.
>
> [1] https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-June/135774.html


As discussed on irc, there is a v2 for this series and this patch has been
reworked to be more generic and also fix the CI timeout issues.

I will propagate those previous acks you gave on the v3 if I ever send one.

Thanks.


-- 
David Marchand