Re: [LSF/MM/BPF ATTEND][LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] : blktests: status, expansion plan for the storage stack test framework

Chaitanya Kulkarni
2026-02-25T02:55:58Z

On 2/23/26 09:08, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2/15/26 1:18 PM, Haris Iqbal wrote:
>> A possible feature for blktest could be integration with something
>> like virtme-ng.
>> Running on VM can be versatile and fast. The run can be made parallel
>> too, by spawning multiple VMs simultaneously.
> Hmm ... this probably would break tests that measure performance and
> also tests that modify data or reservations of a physical storage
> device.
>
> Bart.

We can always make a flag and make test that are parallel compatible ?
so we don't have to for the parallel execution by default.

WDYT ?

-ck