Re: [PATCH 1/2] kunit: tool: Add x86_64-smp architecture for SMP testing

Daniel Latypov
2022-05-18T15:31:49Z

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 12:32 AM 'David Gow' via KUnit Development
<kunit-dev@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Add a new QEMU config for kunit_tool, x86_64-smp, which provides an
> 8-cpu SMP setup. No other kunit_tool configurations provide an SMP
> setup, so this is the best bet for testing things like KCSAN, which
> require a multicore/multi-cpu system.
>
> The choice of 8 CPUs is pretty arbitrary: it's enough to get tests like
> KCSAN to run with a nontrivial number of worker threads, while still
> working relatively quickly on older machines.
>

Since it's arbitrary, I somewhat prefer the idea of leaving up
entirely to the caller
i.e.
$ kunit.py run --kconfig_add=CONFIG_SMP=y --qemu_args '-smp 8'

We could add CONFIG_SMP=y to the default qemu_configs/*.py and do
$ kunit.py run --qemu_args '-smp 8'
but I'd prefer the first, even if it is more verbose.

Marco, does this seem reasonable from your perspective?

I think that a new --qemu_args would be generically useful for adhoc
use and light enough that people won't need to add qemu_configs much.
E.g. I can see people wanting multiple NUMA nodes, a specific -cpu, and so on.