Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.10] boot-serial-test: prefer tcg accelerator

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:29:07 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 01:48:15PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:20:46 +1000
> > David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> >   
> > > Obviously it's not a thing to fix right now, but I've really been
> > > thinking that none of the tests should use this "TCG or KVM" stuff.
> > > They should instead be run with *both* options - or at least the ones
> > > that are available on the host.  
> > 
> > Having one test as a 'smoke test' that is run for everything available
> > sounds like a good idea, and the boot-serial test may be a good
> > candidate for that.
> > 
> > I would not want to run every test with every accelerator, however, as
> > this makes 'make check' even slower than it is now. (Although it may be
> > useful to be able to trigger 'run everything' tests on some dedicated
> > test machines.)  
> 
> I'd be fine with only running the full matrix on a "make check-harder"
> or whatever, target.  But I'd like the option to be there.  Sometimes
> (like when preparing a pull request) a slower check is an acceptable
> cost for better coverage.

make check with one smoke test + make check-harder (like the name :)
sounds like a good combination.