[PATCH v4 0/2] Get fast-test suite to run on FreeBSD

[David Marchand]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2026 at 21:52, Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> The standard "fast-tests" suite is used to sanity-check large parts
> of the DPDK codebase, but it failed to run successfully on FreeBSD,
> with large numbers of failures. This is a long-standing issue reported
> in Bugzilla back in 2021 as issue 761.
>
> This set attempts to rectify this situation by allowing the suite
> to run without errors. Mostly it does this by disabling test suites
> that rely on features like multi-process which are unsupported on
> FreeBSD. It also fixes the test_debug suite which should run on
> BSD but was failing.
>
> V4: resubmit of v3 rebased on latest main
>
> V3:
> * fix typo in patch 1
> * expand explanation in commit log of patch 2
>
> v2:
> * squash patches for fixes into patch 1
> * separate patch for some cleanup of process spawning into patch 2 which
>   does not need backport
>
> Bruce Richardson (2):
>   test: fix failing tests on FreeBSD
>   test: simplify spawning extra test processes
>
>  app/test/process.h              | 20 ++------------------
>  app/test/test_debug.c           |  6 +++---
>  app/test/test_eal_flags.c       | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
>  app/test/test_external_mem.c    |  4 ++--
>  app/test/test_interrupts.c      |  2 +-
>  app/test/test_mp_secondary.c    |  4 ++--
>  app/test/test_pdump.c           |  4 ++++
>  app/test/test_timer_secondary.c |  4 ++--
>  8 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

Series applied, thanks.


-- 
David Marchand