Re: [Qemu-devel] make check speed

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 23/08/2017 09:49, Thomas Huth wrote:
> While we're at it: I'd like to have a "make check-fast", too. Sometimes
> the normal "make check" is already too slow, e.g. while developing new
> patches, I sometimes just want to do a very quick sanity test to see
> whether I broke some basic things or not, and only do the "make check"
> before I submit my patches.
> So we would get three stages:
> 
> - make check-fast => For very, very quick sanity tests only
> 
> - make check => E.g. has to be run before submitting patches
> 
> - make check-harder => might run a very long time, so best suited for
>                        nightly regression tests etc.?
> 
> Does that sound reasonable? And the crucial question: Who is going to
> implement the basic framework for this?

There's already make check-unit or make check-qtest-x86_64 depending on
what you're working on.

If you have a many-core machine, of course, there's no simpler solution
than throwing more CPUs at it. :)

Paolo