Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: re-format output to for make check-block

[Alex Bennée]

Thomas Huth <address@hidden> writes:

> On 03/05/2019 16.39, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This attempts to clean-up the output to better match the output of the
>> rest of the QEMU check system. This includes:
>>
>>   - formatting as "  TEST    iotest: nnn"
>>   - calculating time diff at the end
>>   - only dumping config on failure
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/check | 71 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks for tackling this! The output now looks nicer indeed if you run
> "make check-qtest check-block -j8". However, if you add a "V=1" at the
> end of the command line, the outputs look quite different again...
>
> That's why I thought that having a TAP mode for the check script could
> be a good idea, too. Then we could pipe the output through the
> tap-driver.pl script, too, so we get uniform output for all tests...?

That would probably be a cleaner approach. What would be even better is
somehow expanding the list of tests at make time so you could run your
tests in parallel.

I did wonder how useful the timing stuff was to developers.

>
>  Thomas


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Alex Bennée