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Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 2/2] run_tests: allow run tests i


From: Radim Krčmář
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 2/2] run_tests: allow run tests in parallel
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 21:18:24 +0100

2017-01-01 18:34+0800, Peter Xu:
> run_task.sh is getting slow. This patch is trying to make it faster by
> running the tests concurrently.
> 
> First of all, we provide a new parameter "-j" for the run_tests.sh,
> which can be used to specify how many run queues we want for the tests.
> When "-j" is not provided, we'll keep the old behavior.
> 
> When the tests are running concurrently, we will use seperate log file
> for each test case (currently located in logs/ dir, with name
> test.TESTNAME.log), to avoid test logs messing up with each other.
> 
> A quick test on my laptop (x86 with 4 cores and 2 threads, so 8
> processors) shows 3x improvement on overall test time:
> 
>    |-----------------+-----------|
>    | command         | time used |
>    |-----------------+-----------|
>    | run_test.sh     | 75s       |
>    | run_test.sh -j8 | 27s       |
>    |-----------------+-----------|
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
> ---
> diff --git a/scripts/functions.bash b/scripts/functions.bash
> @@ -1,7 +1,18 @@
> +source scripts/global.bash
> +source scripts/task.bash
> +
>  function run_task()
>  {
> -     RUNTIME_log_file=$ut_default_log_file
> -     "$@"
> +     local testname="$2"
> +
> +     if ut_in_parallel; then
> +             RUNTIME_log_file="${ut_log_dir}/test.${testname}.log"

No need for the "test." prefix.

I would do this change regardless of ut_in_parallel.  Having output of
all tests in one file just wasted time when most usecases were to find a
specific failed test.

> +             # run in background
> +             task_enqueue "$@"

Couldn't the queue be much simpler ...

> +     else
> +             RUNTIME_log_file=$ut_default_log_file
> +             "$@"
> +     fi
>  }
>  
>  function for_each_unittest()
> @@ -51,5 +62,10 @@ function for_each_unittest()
>               fi
>       done

... like this:

  while [ "`jobs | wc -l`" -gt $ut_run_queues ]; do
    wait
  done
  run_task "$cmd" "$testname" "$groups" "$smp" "$kernel" "$opts" "$arch" 
"$check" "$accel" "$timeout" &

?

(default $ut_run_queues would be 1)

>  run_task "$cmd" "$testname" "$groups" "$smp" "$kernel" "$opts" "$arch" 
> "$check" "$accel" "$timeout"
> +
> +     if ut_in_parallel; then
> +             task_wait_all
> +     fi
> +
>       exec {fd}<&-
>  }



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