Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-iotests: Speed up make check-block

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 25.11.2014 um 10:12 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> On 2014-10-28 at 07:45, Fam Zheng wrote:
> >Using /tmp (usually mounted as tmpfs) and cache=writeback, the quick
> >group can be quicker.
> >
> >On my laptop (Lenovo T430s with Fedora 20), this reduces the time from
> >50s to 30s.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
> >---
> >  tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh b/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh
> >index 12af731..0b54dbf 100755
> >--- a/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh
> >+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh
> >@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
> >  cd tests/qemu-iotests
> >  ret=0
> >-./check -T -qcow2 -g quick || ret=1
> >+TEST_DIR=/tmp/qemu-iotests-quick-$$ ./check -T -qcow2 -g quick -c writeback 
> >|| ret=1
> 
> There are (at least) two tests which don't work with -c writeback
> (026 and 039), one of them is in the quick group (039). Why not use
> -c writethrough? It doesn't make any difference on tmpfs anyway  (we
> can't omit it because that will break 091).

Why use any -c? The default is the fast option writeback, and for those
test cases that don't support writeback, something working is chosen
instead.

Kevin