Re: [PATCH] iotests: drop group file

[Denis V. Lunev]

On 3/24/20 12:36 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 24.03.2020 um 08:41 hat Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy geschrieben:
>> When sending iotests to upstream or do patch porting from one branch
>> to another we very often have to resolve conflicts in group file, as
>> many absolutely independent features are intersecting by this file.
>> These conflicts are simple, but imagine how much time we all have
>> already spent on resolving them? Let's finally get rid of group file.
>>
>> This patch transposes group info: instead of collecting it in one file,
>> let each test define its groups by itself.
>>
>> Several steps are done to achive it:
>>
>> 1. Define groups in test files automatically:
>>
>>     grep '^[0-9]\{3\} ' group | while read line; do
>>         file=$(awk '{print $1}' <<< "$line");
>>         groups=$(sed -e 's/^... //' <<< "$line");
>>         awk "NR==2{print \"# group: $groups\"}1" $file > tmp;
>>         cat tmp > $file;
>>     done
>>
>> 2. Copy groups documentation into docs/devel/testing.rst, which already
>>    has a section about iotests.
>>
>> 3. Modify check script to work without group file.
>>
>>    Here is a logic change: before, even if test do not belong to any
>>    group (only iotest 142 currently) it should be defined in group
>>    file. Now, test is not forced to define any group. Instead check
>>    considers all files with names matching [0-9][0-9][0-9] as tests.
> This has both a positive and a negative effect: Now you don't have to
> modify another file when you add a new test, but it will be picked up
> automatically. However, if you want to disable a test, you could
> previously just remove it from groups (or comment it out), and now you
> have to delete the test instead.
>
> Downstream, I think we still disable a few tests because we're compiling
> out features that are required for some tests to pass, and deleting the
> test cases completely would probably move conflicts just to a different
> place.
>
> So I think we need a method to distuingish an enabled test that is in no
> group from a disabled test.
+1 for blacklist.local file

>
>>    check script is also refactored to make it simple to do next cool
>>    thing about iotests: allow meaningful names for test-case files.
> This one would also require us to be able to distinguish test case files
> from arbitrary other files.
>
>> -#
>> -# test-group association ... one line per test
>> -#
>> -001 rw auto quick
>> -002 rw auto quick
>> -003 rw auto
>> -004 rw auto quick
>> -005 img auto quick
>> -# 006 was removed, do not reuse
> We lose these comments without a replacement. I wonder whether it's
> important or if we can think of another way to make sure that numbers
> aren't reused. (I'm not completely sure any more why we decided that we
> don't want to reuse numbers. Maybe because of backports?)
we could generate this file with a starter script with proper
option.

Den