[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test/test: allow taking extra arguments from environment
Luca Boccassi
bluca at debian.org
Fri Oct 12 19:42:13 CEST 2018
On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 16:34 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> When running unit tests automatically, either via script, from meson,
> or otherwise, the same set of options may be used for each run, for
> example to set a standard coremask to be used for all tests.
>
> To facilitate this, this patch adds support for the test binary
> taking
> additional EAL parameters from the environment and appending them to
> the
> argc/argv list passed to eal init. This allows parameter modification
> without having to edit test scripts etc.
>
> There are now two environment variables which can be used for running
> tests:
> * DPDK_TEST - (added previously) passes the test name to be run
> automatically rather than running the app
> interactively.
> Used by "meson test" when running tests individually
> or
> as part of a suite.
>
> * DPDK_TEST_PARAMS - new parameter to specify the commandline
> arguments
> to use with the test binary. For example to run a
> test,
> or tests, on only 16 lcores, and to skip pci scan we
> can
> set this to "-l 0-15 --no-pci".
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 8 ++++++
> test/test/test.c | 34
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Was just thinking that something like this would be useful!
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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