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

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

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 10:29:16PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 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? :)

Oh, there is one in patch 3, please disregard this message.

--D

> --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.
> > 
>