[PATCH 0/7] Get fast-test suite to run on FreeBSD

[Patrick Robb]

Thanks Bruce. We will apply the series and try a fast tests run on our
freebsd14 VM. And if all goes well provide a tested by tag and wait for
this to hit mainline so unit tests in CI can turn back on. :)

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 1:13 PM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
wrote:

> Bugzilla ID: 761
>
> The standard "fast-tests" suite is used to sanity-check large parts
> of the DPDK codebase, but it failed to run successfully on FreeBSD,
> with large numbers of failures. This is a long-standing issue reported
> in Bugzilla back in 2021 (hence the 3-digit BZ ID)
>
> This set attempts to rectify this situation by allowing the suite
> to run without errors. Mostly it does this by disabling test suites
> that rely on features like multi-process which are unsupported on
> FreeBSD. It also fixes the test_debug suite which should run on
> BSD but was failing.
>
> After this set, a run on my FreeBSD system passes with zero failures
> and 22 tests reported as skipped.
>
> Bruce Richardson (7):
>   test/timer_secondary: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/eal_flags: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/pdump: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/secondary_process: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/external_memory: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/interrupts: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/debug: fix unit test on FreeBSD
>
>  app/test/process.h              | 11 ++++++++---
>  app/test/test_debug.c           |  6 +++---
>  app/test/test_eal_flags.c       | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
>  app/test/test_external_mem.c    |  4 ++--
>  app/test/test_interrupts.c      |  2 +-
>  app/test/test_mp_secondary.c    |  4 ++--
>  app/test/test_pdump.c           |  6 ++++++
>  app/test/test_timer_secondary.c |  4 ++--
>  8 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.51.0
>
>
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