From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: DPDK ArmV7 autotests Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:30:30 +0100 Message-ID: <7285692.g8AiFBK0OF@xps13> References: <5640CB56.4080506@intel.com> <20151109184634.3c3fc809@pcviktorin.fit.vutbr.cz> <5641C561.6020107@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: "Hunt, David" Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (mail-wm0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C98559C for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:31:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by wmww144 with SMTP id w144so69290133wmw.0 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 02:31:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5641C561.6020107@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2015-11-10 10:22, Hunt, David: > On 09/11/2015 17:46, Jan Viktorin wrote: > > Here is the log. You an see, that many tests fail just because > > of the missing hugetlb support. This is strange as I modified the > > autotest_runner.py to inject "--no-huge --no-pci" options when it > > detects armv7 architecture. > > I think publishing these test results to the mailing list confuses > matters somewhat. The tests are not tuned for armv7, and there are many > false negatives, giving the impression that the results are worse than > they actually should be. > > The tests need to be analysed to see if they respect the --no-huge and > --no-pci flags correctly, I suspect some tests are being run even though > these flags are enabled. > > I believe enough of the tests pass to allow the initial version of the > patch set to be accepted. We can look at the failing cases later, and > improve the test suite as time goes on. I agree. The unit tests are know to require some refactoring. I suggest to continue ARM integration while checking how to fix the unit tests later. Maybe that Declan has some ideas or plans about the tests.