[PATCH v2 2/6] eal: add lcore variable test suite

[Mattias Rönnblom]

On 2024-09-12 09:35, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 11:08 PM Mattias Rönnblom
> <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com> wrote:
>>
>> Add test suite to exercise the <rte_lcore_var.h> API.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com>
>> Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
>>
>> --
>>
>> RFC v5:
>>   * Adapt tests to reflect the removal of the GET() and SET() macros.
>>
>> RFC v4:
>>   * Check all lcore id's values for all variables in the many variables
>>     test case.
>>   * Introduce test case for max-sized lcore variables.
>>
>> RFC v2:
>>   * Improve alignment-related test coverage.
>> ---
>>   app/test/meson.build      |   1 +
>>   app/test/test_lcore_var.c | 432 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   2 files changed, 433 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 app/test/test_lcore_var.c
>>
>> diff --git a/app/test/meson.build b/app/test/meson.build
>> index e29258e6ec..48279522f0 100644
>> --- a/app/test/meson.build
>> +++ b/app/test/meson.build
>> @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ source_file_deps = {
>>       'test_ipsec_sad.c': ['ipsec'],
>>       'test_kvargs.c': ['kvargs'],
>>       'test_latencystats.c': ['ethdev', 'latencystats', 'metrics'] + sample_packet_forward_deps,
>> +    'test_lcore_var.c': [],
>>       'test_lcores.c': [],
>>       'test_link_bonding.c': ['ethdev', 'net_bond',
>> +}
>> +
>> +REGISTER_FAST_TEST(lcore_var_autotest, true, false, test_lcore_var);
> 
> IMO, Good to add one perf test suite for the operations like other
> library calls. It may be compared with TLS on same operation.
> So that end users can decide to use the scheme based on their use
> case, and we get performance test case to avoid future regression
> for this library.
> 

OK. I've added a micro benchmark.

> It may not show any difference in numbers, but once we have self
> monitoring performance counters[1] it can in the future.
> [1[]
> https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230201131757.1787527-1-tduszynski@marvell.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>