On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:23 PM Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Some environments do not provide a minimum 4 cores for running tests.  This
> allows those environments to still execute 'ninja test' without causing
> multiple failures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  app/test/meson.build | 11 ++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/app/test/meson.build b/app/test/meson.build
> index ddb4d09ae..975b38daa 100644
> --- a/app/test/meson.build
> +++ b/app/test/meson.build
> @@ -337,10 +337,15 @@ if get_option('tests')
>         timeout_seconds = 600
>         timeout_seconds_fast = 10
>
> +       # Retreive the number of CPU cores
> +       num_cores = run_command('lscpu',
> '-p=cpu').stdout().strip().split('\n')[-1]
> +       num_cores_arg = '-l 0-' + num_cores
>

Seeing how we can reduce the core number, we can at least cap it to 4 and
not use all the cores on bigger systems.
But, thinking again, do you know if there is a need for more than 2 cores
in the existing tests ?


+
> +       test_args = [num_cores_arg, '-n 4']
>         foreach arg : fast_parallel_test_names
>                 test(arg, dpdk_test,
>                         env : ['DPDK_TEST=' + arg],
> -                       args : ['-c f','-n 4', '--file-prefix=@0@
> '.format(arg)],
> +                       args : test_args + ['--file-prefix=@0@
> '.format(arg)],
>                         timeout : timeout_seconds_fast,
>                         suite : 'fast-tests')
>         endforeach
> @@ -348,6 +353,7 @@ if get_option('tests')
>         foreach arg : fast_non_parallel_test_names
>                 test(arg, dpdk_test,
>                         env : ['DPDK_TEST=' + arg],
> +                       args : test_args + ['--file-prefix=@0@
> '.format(arg)],
>

I don't understand this part.

(How|) was it working before ?
Is there some default args ? I could not find it.

                        timeout : timeout_seconds_fast,
>                         is_parallel : false,
>                         suite : 'fast-tests')
>


-- 
David Marchand

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