Re: "make check-acceptance" takes way too long

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 16:12, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> "make check-acceptance" takes way way too long. I just did a run
> on an arm-and-aarch64-targets-only debug build and it took over
> half an hour, and this despite it skipping or cancelling 26 out
> of 58 tests!
>
> I think that ~10 minutes runtime is reasonable. 30 is not;
> ideally no individual test would take more than a minute or so.
>
> Output saying where the time went. The first two tests take
> more than 10 minutes *each*. I think a good start would be to find
> a way of testing what they're testing that is less heavyweight.

Does anybody have some time to look at this? It makes
'check-acceptance' almost unusable for testing fixes locally...

-- PMM