[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test/test: allow taking extra arguments from environment

[Thomas Monjalon]

12/10/2018 19:42, Luca Boccassi:
> On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 16:34 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > When running unit tests automatically, either via script, from meson,
> > or otherwise, the same set of options may be used for each run, for
> > example to set a standard coremask to be used for all tests.
> > 
> > To facilitate this, this patch adds support for the test binary
> > taking
> > additional EAL parameters from the environment and appending them to
> > the
> > argc/argv list passed to eal init. This allows parameter modification
> > without having to edit test scripts etc.
> > 
> > There are now two environment variables which can be used for running
> > tests:
> >  * DPDK_TEST - (added previously) passes the test name to be run
> >                automatically rather than running the app
> > interactively.
> >                Used by "meson test" when running tests individually
> > or
> >                as part of a suite.
> > 
> >  * DPDK_TEST_PARAMS - new parameter to specify the commandline
> > arguments
> >                to use with the test binary. For example to run a
> > test,
> >                or tests, on only 16 lcores, and to skip pci scan we
> > can
> >                set this to "-l 0-15 --no-pci".
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst |  8 ++++++
> >  test/test/test.c                       | 34
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Was just thinking that something like this would be useful!
> 
> Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>

Applied, thanks