RE: [RFC PATCH] app/test: allow passing a parameter string to autotests

["Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>]

> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson@intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, 15 December 2023 14.07
> 
> Sometimes it can be nice to have autotests which can take a parameter,
> or can be tweaked in some ways, e.g. adjust the number of iterations,
> or
> the burst size used in the test. Currently there is no way to do so -
> all test parameters are hardcoded, which makes sense for a generic
> regression test to be run quickly, but is a bit lacking for those
> looking to use unit tests for investigations.
> 
> To that end, we can all the commandline to accept an additional string
> parameter after each autotest name, and make that available via global
> variable. Any test which wishes to make use of this can do so, to allow
> overriding test defaults.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---

This would be useful for the mempool perf test. :-)

It would be nice standardizing on a parameter syntax, though.
Preferably: <param> ["=" <value>] {" " <param> ["=" <value>]}

Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>