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Re: [PATCH 0/4] introduce test suite "parallel" mode
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:14:04 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] introduce test suite "parallel" mode
- References: <1374073124-23602-1-git-send-email-tromey at redhat dot com>
On 07/17/2013 03:58 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> This series adds some necessary infrastructure for fully parallelizing
> the test suite.
>
> It updates some code in testsuite/lib to use the standard_* procs.
> Then it introduces parallel mode and the inotify mode;
> standard_temp_file, and finally caching procs.
>
> I think the commentary in each patch ought to explain it sufficiently.
>
> I built and regtested this on x86-64 Fedora 18.
> I also regtested it using native-gdbserver.exp.
>
> After this series, parallel mode still doesn't really work.
> More changes are necessary. This is explained in patch #2.
It might be a good idea to force-disable this somewhere
with remote-host testing, though you're most likely aware
of that already.
I read the series, and I have no further comments.
Thanks,
--
Pedro Alves