Re: [RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-06-01 Thread Avi Kivity
Mike Burns wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Michael Goldish wrote: Drawbacks: - requires some initial work to be done by the user -- the user has to define exactly where each test should run For me, this is a major drawback. I'd really like a fire-and-forget solution. If I have to

Re: [RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-05-24 Thread Avi Kivity
Ryan Harper wrote: I took a slightly different approach. The kvm_tests.cfg file already provides a dependency relationship between different tests. I modified the main loop in the control file to walk the entire list of jobs and pull out any jobs that don't have any dependencies (ie, install

Re: [RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-05-21 Thread Ryan Harper
* Mike Burns mbu...@redhat.com [2009-05-20 16:13]: Ryan Harper wrote: * Michael Goldish mgold...@redhat.com [2009-05-17 09:50]: Hi all, We've recently implemented a very simple form of parallel test execution into KVM-Autotest and we'd like some feedback on it. This suggestion

Re: [RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-05-21 Thread Ryan Harper
* Michael Goldish mgold...@redhat.com [2009-05-20 18:15]: - Ryan Harper ry...@us.ibm.com wrote: * Michael Goldish mgold...@redhat.com [2009-05-17 09:50]: I took a slightly different approach. The kvm_tests.cfg file already provides a dependency relationship between different tests.

Re: [RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Burns
Avi Kivity wrote: Michael Goldish wrote: Drawbacks: - requires some initial work to be done by the user -- the user has to define exactly where each test should run For me, this is a major drawback. I'd really like a fire-and-forget solution. If I have to spend my own time getting

Re: [RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-05-20 Thread Ryan Harper
* Michael Goldish mgold...@redhat.com [2009-05-17 09:50]: Hi all, We've recently implemented a very simple form of parallel test execution into KVM-Autotest and we'd like some feedback on it. This suggestion allows the user to manually assign tests to hosts/queues. It also takes care of

Re: [RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Burns
Ryan Harper wrote: * Michael Goldish mgold...@redhat.com [2009-05-17 09:50]: Hi all, We've recently implemented a very simple form of parallel test execution into KVM-Autotest and we'd like some feedback on it. This suggestion allows the user to manually assign tests to hosts/queues. It

Re: [RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-05-20 Thread Michael Goldish
- Mike Burns mbu...@redhat.com wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Michael Goldish wrote: Drawbacks: - requires some initial work to be done by the user -- the user has to define exactly where each test should run For me, this is a major drawback. I'd really like a fire-and-forget

[RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-05-17 Thread Michael Goldish
Hi all, We've recently implemented a very simple form of parallel test execution into KVM-Autotest and we'd like some feedback on it. This suggestion allows the user to manually assign tests to hosts/queues. It also takes care of assigning different MAC address ranges to hosts/queues. By

Re: [RFC] KVM-Autotest: basic parallel test execution

2009-05-17 Thread Avi Kivity
Michael Goldish wrote: Drawbacks: - requires some initial work to be done by the user -- the user has to define exactly where each test should run For me, this is a major drawback. I'd really like a fire-and-forget solution. If I have to spend my own time getting this to work, vs.