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

David Marchand
2026-03-20T14:25:45Z

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 at 18:13, Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> 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(-)

I would put the exec discovery rework in a first patch, then squash
all the rest together.
Otherwise, it lgtm on the principle.

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David Marchand