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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 16:24:19 +0800
From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add a CentOS test image to run docker
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To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, pbonzini@redhat.com, Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= <f4bug@amsat.org>

On Wed, 04/04 09:19, Daniel P. Berrang=E9 wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 10:51:58AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > Docker testing on patchew has long suffered from 'make check' hanging=
s. The
> > cleanness of VM testing is the cure. Now let's add a CentOS 7 image t=
o run the
> > tests.  It's purely ad-hoc, but hopefully still easy to understand an=
d use for
> > everyone.
>=20
> If our automated tests are hanging, then developers could hit those han=
gs
> to, and depending on where the problem is, end users could hit the hang=
s
> in production deployment.
>=20
> IOW, hangs in the testing aren't something we should just hide away by
> changing the way we run tests - we need to identify & fix the hangs.

This will not hide anything. It just helps how we clean up everything
(especially the hanging test process in patchew) when timeout, and doesn'=
t
affect how we identify and report timeouts.

Fam