From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MAs6z-0003n6-LN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 16:58:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MAs6u-0003m5-S7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 16:58:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52634 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MAs6u-0003ls-J1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 16:58:28 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:37395) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MAs6t-0007bD-W7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 16:58:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4A22EF88.6090404@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 23:58:48 +0300 From: Dor Laor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Networking patches queue References: <1243523971.4046.206.camel@blaa> <4A1EADB4.2060106@us.ibm.com> <1243525873.18588.11.camel@blaa> <4A1EB442.1060006@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4A1EB442.1060006@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: dlaor@redhat.com List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: lmr@redhat.com, Mark McLoughlin , qemu-devel , Michael Goldish , Jan Kiszka Anthony Liguori wrote: .. > Does kvm-autotest have networking tests? > > Yes and no... kvm autotest is able to run standard autotest tests - http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM-Autotest/Tests#autotest autotest itself support various tests, netperf2 is one of them. So with a little effort it is doable. We'll try to make it easy as possible to run these tests. Here's a list of some autotest tests: aborttest dacapo error_test_na iperf lsb_dtk profiler_test stress aio_dio_bugs dbench fio ipv6connect ltp reaim sysbench aiostress dbt2 fsdev isic memory_api real_time_tests tbench barriertest disktest fsfuzzer kernbench monotonic_time rmaptest tiobench bash_shared_mapping error_cleanup fs_mark kernelbuild netperf2 rttester tsc bonnie error_initialize fsstress kvm_runtest_2 netpipe scrashme unixbench btreplay error_setup fsx kvm_runtest_old parallel_dd selftest uptime compilebench error_skip_step hackbench kvmtest perfmon signaltest xmtest cpu_hotplug error_test_bug interbench libhugetlbfs pi_tests sleeptest cpuset_tasks error_test_error iosched_bugs linus_stress pktgen sparse cyclictest error_test_fail iozone lmbench posixtest spew > I know there's some concern about the time it takes for patches to get > applied. IMHO, the best way to improve that it to get a stronger set of > functional tests. I have a set I've been working on but it's on my > other laptop which I cannot reach ATM :-/ > > As has been discussed before, I'm looking for finer grain functional > tests than the installation tests that kvm-autotest is providing now. > I'm not saying that this series requires submitting a test suite first, > but rather that if you're interested in seeing networking advance more > rapidly, a good investment would be to build out a better test > infrastructure for it. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > >