Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] iotests: make meson aware of individual I/O tests

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

Kevin / Hanna.....  do you have any comments you want to
make on this, since it is notionally under the maintainership
of the block team ? If not Alex has volunteered to queue this
via his testing tree.

On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 04:07:19PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> To just repeat the patch 5 description...
> 
> Currently meson registers a single test that invokes an entire group of
> I/O tests, hiding the test granularity from meson. There are various
> downsides of doing this
> 
>  * You cannot ask 'meson test' to invoke a single I/O test
>  * The meson test timeout can't be applied to the individual
>    tests
>  * Meson only gets a pass/fail for the overall I/O test group
>    not individual tests
>  * Meson can't show the time of individual I/O tests, so we
>    can't see why 4-5 are consuming the bulk of the time
>    and ripe for optimization
>  * If a CI job gets killed by the GitLab timeout, we don't
>    get visibility into how far through the I/O tests
>    execution got.
> 
> This is not really specific to the I/O tests, the problem is common
> to any case of us running a test which is in fact another test
> harness which runs many tests. It would be nice to have meson have
> the full view of all tests run. Adapting the I/O tests is as easy
> win in this respect.
> 
> This switches meson to perform test discovery by invoking 'check' in
> dry-run mode. It then registers one meson test case for each I/O
> test. Parallel execution remains disabled since the I/O tests do not
> use self contained execution environments and thus conflict with
> each other.
> 
> Compare contrast output from a current job:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3863603546
> 
> [quote]
> 204/224 qemu:block / qemu-iotests qcow2   OK 329.94s   119 subtests passed
> [/quote]
> 
> Vs what is seen with this series:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/berrange/qemu/-/jobs/3865975463
> 
> [quote]
> 204/350 qemu:block / qemu-iotests-qcow2-001   OK    2.16s   1 subtests passed
> 205/350 qemu:block / qemu-iotests-qcow2-002   OK    2.77s   1 subtests passed
> 
> ...snip...
> 
> 329/350 qemu:block / qemu-iotests-qcow2-qemu-img-close-errors       OK    6.19s   1 subtests passed
> 330/350 qemu:block / qemu-iotests-qcow2-qsd-jobs          OK    0.55s   1 subtests passed
> [/quote]
> 
> A few tweaks were needed to the iotests runner because it had a few
> assumptions about it always running in a tree that has already been
> built, which is obviously not the case at the time meson does test
> discovery.
> 
> In v2:
> 
> New example pipeline job
> 
>    https://gitlab.com/berrange/qemu/-/jobs/3871446106
> 
>  * Set build/source dir defaults in CLI option parser
>    instead of testenv.py (Alex)
>  * Fix messed up termios settings with parallel execution
>    by connecting stdin to /dev/null (Thomas)
>  * Remove the obsolete check-block.sh script (Thomas)
>  * Use a unique sub-directory per test to allow parallelization (Thomas)
>  * Enable parallel execution by meson (Thomas)
>  * Remove leftover debugging message (Thomas)
>  * Use a shorter meson test name 'io-qcow2-012' instead of
>    'qemu-iotests-qcow2-012'
> 
> Daniel P. Berrangé (8):
>   iotests: explicitly pass source/build dir to 'check' command
>   iotests: allow test discovery before building
>   iotests: strip subdir path when listing tests
>   iotests: print TAP protocol version when reporting tests
>   iotests: connect stdin to /dev/null when running tests
>   iotests: always use a unique sub-directory per test
>   iotests: register each I/O test separately with meson
>   iotests: remove the check-block.sh script
> 
>  tests/check-block.sh             | 43 --------------------------------
>  tests/qemu-iotests/check         | 30 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build   | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py    | 20 +++++++--------
>  tests/qemu-iotests/testrunner.py | 43 ++++++++++----------------------
>  5 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100755 tests/check-block.sh
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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