autotest system requirements.

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:00:07PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> With 22.07 release, the test requirements seemed to have changed.
> Can't run tests unless root now.
> 
> And the table test fails if only 1G of hugepages is setup.
> 
> This doesn't match the documentation:
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/meson_ut.html
> 
> which shows running tests as non-root.

Can you clarify a bit more what you are seeing? I can certainly run a suite
of unit tests as non-root and have the majority of them pass. There are
failures and timeouts though, but I haven't root-caused why exactly.

/Bruce

$ meson test --suite DPDK:fast-tests
ninja: Entering directory `/home/bruce/dpdk.org/build'
ninja: no work to do.
  1/102 DPDK:fast-tests / acl_autotest                            OK              3.05s
  2/102 DPDK:fast-tests / atomic_autotest                         TIMEOUT        10.01s   killed by signal 15 SIGTERM
>>> DPDK_TEST=atomic_autotest MALLOC_PERTURB_=252 /home/bruce/dpdk.org/build/app/test/dpdk-test --file-prefix=atomic_autotest

[3/102] ð  3/102 DPDK:fast-tests / bitmap_autotest                         OK              0.14s
  4/102 DPDK:fast-tests / bpf_autotest                            OK              0.12s
  5/102 DPDK:fast-tests / bpf_convert_autotest                    OK              0.14s
...
100/102 DPDK:fast-tests / pdump_autotest                          OK              5.46s
101/102 DPDK:fast-tests / vdev_autotest                           OK              0.16s
102/102 DPDK:fast-tests / compressdev_autotest                    SKIP            0.15s   exit status 77

Ok:                 88  
Expected Fail:      0   
Fail:               1   
Unexpected Pass:    0   
Skipped:            5   
Timeout:            8   

Full log written to /home/bruce/dpdk.org/build/meson-logs/testlog.txt