[dpdk-dev] [RFC 17.05] test: move tests to separate folder

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 03:13:26PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> Tests are part of app folder and compiled with library every time.
> Moving tests into a "test" folder which won't be compiled by default.
> To compile tests, need to give explicit "make test" command.
> 
> "make test" was previously used to run tests, which renamed to
> "make test_run" with this patch.
> 
> This makes default compilation ~30% faster,
> [clang, make -j8, old]: real    1m04.355s
> [clang, make -j8, new]: real    0m41.740s
> 
> For new case, test needs to built separately, which takes,
> [clang, make -j8 test]: real    0m24.293s
> 
> The point is tests are not required always and by every one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> ---

Hi Ferruh,

I'm not sure I'm convinced by this, as I think there are advantages to
having the test code always compiled. Anything that is not compiled in
DPDK by default is more likely to be broken by patch submissions. The
speed boost to build is nice, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
However, I'm open to being convinced otherwise on this...

/Bruce