Re: [PATCH 0/5]: CLI and feature improvements for check-parallel

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 04:51:11PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This patchset brings some new functionality to check-parallel to
> make it easier to run across different machines and filesystems.
> The patch seti adds these features:
> 
> - auto-adjusts concurrency for the machine it is running on.
> - adds CLI support of selection of tests. These CLI parameters are
>   identical to the check CLI parameters and the test lists are built
>   using the same code.
> - adds support for logwrites devices so that all the test that use
>   dm-logwrites are now enabled
> - adds support for specifying the initial filesystem type to test
>   on the CLI. This makes it easy to select xfs, btrfs, ext4, etc as
>   the target filesystem type that is to be tested.
> - Only block device based filesystems can be used with
>   check-parallel, and this is now enforced at FSTYP selection time.

Can you please add a --help so that curious users don't have to go find
the calling conventions by reading the bash? :)

--D

> For example, testing the rw group on ext4 is now a simple matter of
> adding the "-f ext4" parameter to the command line like so:
> 
> $ time sudo ./check-parallel -D /mnt/xfs -f ext4 -g rw -x dump
> Runner 12 Failures:  ext4/308
> Runner 1 Failures:  generic/095
> Runner 21 Failures:  generic/042
> Runner 51 Failures:  generic/627
> Runner 8 Failures:  generic/032
> Runner 13 Failures:  generic/019
> Runner 34 Failures:  generic/347
> .....
> 
> Options like exclude files, groups and lists also work natively in
> check-parallel now, same as they do in check...
> 
> -Dave.
>