Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-iotests: Speed up make check-block

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

On 2014-11-25 at 10:21, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 25.11.2014 um 10:12 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
>> On 2014-10-28 at 07:45, Fam Zheng wrote:
>>> Using /tmp (usually mounted as tmpfs) and cache=writeback, the quick
>>> group can be quicker.
>>>
>>> On my laptop (Lenovo T430s with Fedora 20), this reduces the time from
>>> 50s to 30s.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>   tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh | 2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh b/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh
>>> index 12af731..0b54dbf 100755
>>> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh
>>> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh
>>> @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
>>>   cd tests/qemu-iotests
>>>   ret=0
>>> -./check -T -qcow2 -g quick || ret=1
>>> +TEST_DIR=/tmp/qemu-iotests-quick-$$ ./check -T -qcow2 -g quick -c writeback || ret=1
>> There are (at least) two tests which don't work with -c writeback
>> (026 and 039), one of them is in the quick group (039). Why not use
>> -c writethrough? It doesn't make any difference on tmpfs anyway  (we
>> can't omit it because that will break 091).
> Why use any -c? The default is the fast option writeback, and for those
> test cases that don't support writeback, something working is chosen
> instead.

Because that breaks 091.

Max