[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] acl: adjust the tests

[Ananyev, Konstantin]

Hi Aaron,

> 
> This makes the tests pass, and also ensures that on platforms where the
> testing is supported, we can properly test the implementation specific
> code.  One edge case is when we run on x86_64 systems that don't support
> AVX2, but where the compiler can generate such instructions.  That could
> be an enhancement in the future, but for now at least the tests will
> pass.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> ---
>  app/test/test_acl.c             | 62 +++++++++++++--------------------
>  lib/librte_acl/Makefile         |  1 +
>  lib/librte_acl/acl_run_notsup.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_acl/meson.build      |  4 +--
>  4 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/librte_acl/acl_run_notsup.c
> 
> diff --git a/app/test/test_acl.c b/app/test/test_acl.c
> index b1f75d1bc..c44faa251 100644
> --- a/app/test/test_acl.c
> +++ b/app/test/test_acl.c
> @@ -408,6 +408,9 @@ test_classify(void)
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> 
> +	/* Always use the scalar testing for now. */
> +	rte_acl_set_ctx_classify(acx, RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_SCALAR);
> +
>  	ret = 0;
>  	for (i = 0; i != TEST_CLASSIFY_ITER; i++) {
> 
> @@ -547,6 +550,7 @@ test_build_ports_range(void)
>  	for (i = 0; i != RTE_DIM(test_data); i++)
>  		data[i] = (uint8_t *)&test_data[i];
> 
> +	rte_acl_set_ctx_classify(acx, RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_SCALAR);
>  	for (i = 0; i != RTE_DIM(test_rules); i++) {
>  		rte_acl_reset(acx);
>  		ret = test_classify_buid(acx, test_rules, i + 1);
> @@ -911,6 +915,8 @@ test_convert_rules(const char *desc,
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> 
> +	rte_acl_set_ctx_classify(acx, RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_SCALAR);
> +

As I understand here and above, on x86 you replaced default algo (SSE, AVX2)
with scalar one, right?
That looks like reduction of test coverage for x86.
Konstantin