Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] iotests: always use a unique sub-directory per test

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 03/03/2023 17.07, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> The current test runner is only safe against parallel execution within
> a single instance of the 'check' process, and only if -j is given a
> value greater than 2. This prevents running multiple copies of the
> 'check' process for different test scenarios.
> 
> This change switches the output / socket directories to always include
> the test name, image format and image protocol. This should allow full
> parallelism of all distinct test scenarios. eg running both qcow2 and
> raw tests at the same time, or both file and nbd tests at the same
> time.
> 
> It would be possible to allow for parallelism of the same test scenario
> by including the pid, but that would potentially let many directories
> accumulate over time on failures, so is not done.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>   tests/qemu-iotests/testrunner.py | 20 ++++++++++----------
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>