Re: [PATCH] tests: parallelize diff-suppr test

[Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org>]

Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> a écrit:

> Parallelize test execution for diff-suppr test by using abigail's multi
> threaded worker queue. To accomplish that, follow a similar pattern like
> other tests: Add a test_task struct with some precomputed values and
> chunk up the work in main().
>
> The test cases needed to be adjusted to allow parallel execution. In
> particular the output files can't be shared anymore. To ensure this, a
> small tests has been added that checks for unique output paths.
>
> Finally, one redundant test case has been dropped.
>
> This reduces the test time on my machine from ~31s to ~14s. There are
> still two test cases that dominate the overall runtime. Since this test
> is on the critical path for 'distcheck' (it is the test with the longest
> runtime), this is effectively chopped off the overal make distcheck
> time.
>
> 	* tests/test-diff-suppr.cc(main): parallelize test execution.
> 	(test_task) new abigail::workers::task implementation to run
> 	test cases in this test as separate worker tasks.

Applied to master, thanks!

Cheers,

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		Dodji