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

Bruce Richardson
2026-03-20T14:31:24Z

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 03:25:26PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> 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.
>
Ack, will rework into a 2-patch v2.

/Bruce