[PATCH 0/7] Get fast-test suite to run on FreeBSD

Bruce Richardson
2026-03-19T17:13:42Z

Bugzilla ID: 761

The standard "fast-tests" suite is used to sanity-check large parts
of the DPDK codebase, but it failed to run successfully on FreeBSD,
with large numbers of failures. This is a long-standing issue reported
in Bugzilla back in 2021 (hence the 3-digit BZ ID)

This set attempts to rectify this situation by allowing the suite
to run without errors. Mostly it does this by disabling test suites
that rely on features like multi-process which are unsupported on
FreeBSD. It also fixes the test_debug suite which should run on
BSD but was failing.

After this set, a run on my FreeBSD system passes with zero failures
and 22 tests reported as skipped.

Bruce Richardson (7):
test/timer_secondary: skip test on FreeBSD
test/eal_flags: skip test on FreeBSD
test/pdump: skip test on FreeBSD
test/secondary_process: skip test on FreeBSD
test/external_memory: skip test on FreeBSD
test/interrupts: skip test on FreeBSD
test/debug: fix unit test on FreeBSD

app/test/process.h | 11 ++++++++---
app/test/test_debug.c | 6 +++---
app/test/test_eal_flags.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
app/test/test_external_mem.c | 4 ++--
app/test/test_interrupts.c | 2 +-
app/test/test_mp_secondary.c | 4 ++--
app/test/test_pdump.c | 6 ++++++
app/test/test_timer_secondary.c | 4 ++--
8 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

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