>> Unless this is really time consuming, I think the simple answer is to
>> just let the setup run twice and don't try to share between the 2
>> instances?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
> The setup is time consuming compared to the verification step. On my
> machine, the entire test takes about 120s, and about 90% of that is setup.
Bleh. OK, that seems worth the extra complexity.
>
> A simple solution is to scrap the subtest idea and just have:
>
> @skipBigDataTest()
> def test_s390x_secure_ipl(self):
> self.require_accelerator('kvm')
> self.setup_s390x_secure_ipl()
> self.verify_s390x_secure_ipl('ccw')
> self.verify_s390x_secure_ipl('pci')
>
> But if we value separating the ccw and pci cases into separate subtests,
> I have a solution using setUpClass() and class-level vars to run the
> setup only once. It just makes the code a bit uglier. I'll proceed with
> it for v2, unless other opinions arise.
Sounds good.
Thanks,
Matt
