Re: [PATCH v2 13/16] nvme: factor out namespace setup

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 4/16/20 8:03 AM, Klaus Birkelund Jensen wrote:
> On Apr 15 15:26, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 4/15/20 3:20 PM, Klaus Birkelund Jensen wrote:
> > > I'll get the v1.3 series ready next.
> >
> > Cool. What really matters (to me) is seeing tests. If we can merge tests
> > (without multiple namespaces) before the rest of your series, even better.
> > Tests give reviewers/maintainers confidence that code isn't breaking ;)
>
> The patches that I contribute have been pretty extensively tested by
> various means in a "host setting" (e.g. blktests and some internal
> tools), which really exercise the device by doing heavy I/O, testing for
> compliance and also just being mean to it (e.g. tripping bus mastering
> while doing I/O).
>
> Don't misunderstand me as trying to weasel my way out of writing tests,
> but I just want to understand the scope of the tests that you are
> looking for? I believe (hope!) that you are not asking me to implement a
> user-space NVMe driver in the test, so I assume the tests should varify
> more low level details?

I was thinking about something rather simple.

So you are adding the "multiple namespaces" feature, we want to test it.

If you can demonstrate it works with few I/O calls you could try with 
qtest, such:
https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg695421.html

If it requires complex commands, since the user-space tools already 
exist, you can use an acceptance test booting Linux, installing the NVMe 
tools and use them. See tests/acceptance/linux_ssh_mips_malta.py or
https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg656319.html

Regards,

Phil.