[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] app/test/meson: auto detect number of cores
Bruce Richardson
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Fri Apr 12 18:36:28 CEST 2019
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:21:41PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> The arguments being passed will cause failures on laptops that have,
> for instance, 2 cores only. Most of the tests don't require more
> than a single core. Some require multiple cores (but those tests
> should be modified to 'SKIP' when the correct number of cores
> aren't available).
>
> The unit test results shouldn't be impacted by this change, but it
> allows for a future enhancement to pass flags such as '--no-huge'.
>
> Also include a fix to a reported issue with running on FreeBSD.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> ---
> v2:
> * Fix a spelling mistake
> * Add support for FreeBSD
> * Include a default fallback
> * Use a more robust core-mask argument source (rather than lscpu)
>
> Conflicts with http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/50850/
>
> app/test/meson.build | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/app/test/meson.build b/app/test/meson.build
> index 867cc5863..5e056eb59 100644
> --- a/app/test/meson.build
> +++ b/app/test/meson.build
> @@ -344,17 +344,43 @@ if get_option('tests')
> timeout_seconds = 600
> timeout_seconds_fast = 10
>
> + # Retrieve the number of CPU cores, defaulting to 4.
> + num_cores = '0-3'
> + if host_machine.system() == 'linux'
> + num_cores = run_command('cat',
> + '/sys/devices/system/cpu/present'
> + ).stdout().strip()
> + elif host_machine.system() == 'freebsd'
> + snum_cores = run_command('/sbin/sysctl', '-n',
> + 'hw.ncpu').stdout().strip()
> + inum_cores = snum_cores.to_int() - 1
> + num_cores = '0- at 0@'.format(inum_cores)
> + endif
> +
> + num_cores_arg = '-l ' + num_cores
> +
> + test_args = [num_cores_arg, '-n 4']
This -n 4 parameter can be dropped. Four is the default setting IIRC.
I also wonder are the parameters coming through to the app correctly,
generally meson does not work well with parameters with spaces in them -
I'd expect the "-l" and the num_cores values to be separated in the array.
I also think num_cores_arg value could be dropped too.
If it works though, I'm ok to keep as-is though.
> foreach arg : fast_parallel_test_names
> - test(arg, dpdk_test,
> - env : ['DPDK_TEST=' + arg],
> - args : ['-c f','-n 4', '--file-prefix=@0@'.format(arg)],
> + if host_machine.system() == 'linux'
> + test(arg, dpdk_test,
> + env : ['DPDK_TEST=' + arg],
> + args : test_args +
> + ['--file-prefix=@0@'.format(arg)],
> + timeout : timeout_seconds_fast,
> + suite : 'fast-tests')
> + else
> + test(arg, dpdk_test,
> + env : ['DPDK_TEST=' + arg],
> + args : test_args,
> timeout : timeout_seconds_fast,
> suite : 'fast-tests')
> + endif
> endforeach
While this is needed now, I think in the medium term we should have the
"file-prefix" flag being a warning rather than a hard-error on FreeBSD.
[i.e. keep this, but we should fix it in 19.08 to be shorter]
/Bruce
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