From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas F Herbert Subject: Re: DPDK: Proposal for a patch patch-test integration tree Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 18:36:02 -0400 Message-ID: <556646D2.9020702@redhat.com> References: <55662DAF.3000909@redhat.com> <20150527210624.GA15347@mhcomputing.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: Matthew Hall Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D99ECF9 for ; Thu, 28 May 2015 00:36:04 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20150527210624.GA15347@mhcomputing.net> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 5/27/15 5:06 PM, Matthew Hall wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 04:48:47PM -0400, Thomas F Herbert wrote: >> Submissions of test suites will be encouraged from the community including >> testing against compilers, architectures, devices, options etc. The purpose >> is to try to evolve to widen test coverage for submitted patches. > > Hi Thomas, > > This overall idea is extremely awesome and will help me a lot so I won't have > to try and sit there yanking in random patches from email threads. Thanks! In the meantime, you can yank patches from http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/project/dpdk/list/ which might be easier then sorting through the emails depending on your email client. > > I am not sure if it will be possible or not, but I'd like to see some test > suites against some applications as well. They do more complex operations in > my experience than the operations the DPDK tests do. I will accept submitted test suites toward this goal if you would like to write a test suite. > > Perhaps something like an L4-L7 firewall app or an IDS / IPS app or an L3-L4 > cloud switch / router app. Etc. > > Matthew. >