From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10228 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2013 17:14:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10203 invoked by uid 89); 1 Aug 2013 17:14:13 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:14:13 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r71HE6jj024258 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:14:06 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r71HE4hQ027759; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:14:05 -0400 Message-ID: <51FA975C.3050709@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:14:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Tromey CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] introduce test suite "parallel" mode References: <1374073124-23602-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1374073124-23602-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 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