[RFC PATCH v2] dts: skip test cases based on capabilities

[Juraj Linkeš]

On 3. 6. 2024 16:40, Nicholas Pratte wrote:
> I was able to use this implementation on the in-development
> jumboframes suite, setting restrictions on the required link speeds of
> NICs and using this as a requirement to run all test cases. While the
> framework you've developed is intuitive for true/false capabilities,
> this may not be the case for other device capabilities such as link
> speed, where perhaps someone might want to support a certain range of
> speeds (I also acknowledge that this may be a needless feature).

Would using the same decorator multiple times work? In any case, I will 
think about this.

And also, thanks for the comments in the other thread, I'll incorporate 
those.

> I
> personally found implementing this to be a head-scratcher, and I
> ultimately ended up implementing this using a lower bound link speed
> instead of accepting a range of speeds. The reason for me implementing
> this at all is because of some complications within old DTS's
> jumboframes implementation. In old DTS, the test suite would check for
> 1GB NICs within certain test cases and modify the MTU lengths because
> of some inconsistent logic. You can see what I am referring to in the
> link below, take a look at test_jumboframes_bigger_jumbo, if you are
> interested.
> 
> https://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/tests/TestSuite_jumboframes.py
> 
> A solution to this problem is to set a restriction on the speed of
> NICs for the test suite, but whether or not this is a viable solution
> may require further discussion. This issue is its own conversation,
> but I'm bringing it up in this thread since we may run into
> requirements issues like this in the future, but I'm not so sure what
> the rest of you guys think, or if you guys think it is a viable
> concern at all.
> 
>