Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/8] tests: Skip old versioned machine types in quick testing mode

[Juan Quintela]

Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> The tests that check something for all machine types currently spend
> a lot of time checking old machine types (like "pc-i440fx-2.0" for
> example). The chances that we find something new there in addition
> to checking the latest version of a machine type are pretty low, so
> we should not waste the time of the developers by testing this again
> and again in the "quick" testing mode.
> Thus let's add some code to determine whether we are testing a current
> machine type or an old one, and only test the old types if we are
> running in "SPEED=slow" mode.
> This decreases the testing time quite a bit now, e.g. the qom-test
> now finishes within 4 seconds for qemu-system-x86_64 instead of 30
> seconds when testing all machines.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>

Thanks!!!!!