Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Networking patches queue

[Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:

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> Does kvm-autotest have networking tests?
>
>   
Yes and no...
kvm autotest is able to run standard autotest tests - 
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM-Autotest/Tests#autotest
autotest itself support various tests, netperf2 is one of them. So with 
a little effort it is doable.
We'll try to make it easy as possible to run these tests.
Here's a list of some autotest tests:
aborttest            dacapo            error_test_na  iperf            
lsb_dtk         profiler_test    stress
aio_dio_bugs         dbench            fio            ipv6connect      
ltp             reaim            sysbench
aiostress            dbt2              fsdev          isic             
memory_api      real_time_tests  tbench
barriertest          disktest          fsfuzzer       kernbench        
monotonic_time  rmaptest         tiobench
bash_shared_mapping  error_cleanup     fs_mark        kernelbuild      
netperf2        rttester         tsc
bonnie               error_initialize  fsstress       kvm_runtest_2    
netpipe         scrashme         unixbench
btreplay             error_setup       fsx            kvm_runtest_old  
parallel_dd     selftest         uptime
compilebench         error_skip_step   hackbench      kvmtest          
perfmon         signaltest       xmtest
cpu_hotplug          error_test_bug    interbench     libhugetlbfs     
pi_tests        sleeptest
cpuset_tasks         error_test_error  iosched_bugs   linus_stress     
pktgen          sparse
cyclictest           error_test_fail   iozone         lmbench          
posixtest       spew


> I know there's some concern about the time it takes for patches to get
> applied.  IMHO, the best way to improve that it to get a stronger set of
> functional tests.  I have a set I've been working on but it's on my
> other laptop which I cannot reach ATM :-/
>
> As has been discussed before, I'm looking for finer grain functional
> tests than the installation tests that kvm-autotest is providing now. 
> I'm not saying that this series requires submitting a test suite first,
> but rather that if you're interested in seeing networking advance more
> rapidly, a good investment would be to build out a better test
> infrastructure for it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
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