Sounds good. We can give it a week or so before we push. I won't have any
time to work on much between now and then anyway.

Cheers,
Jason

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 2:50 AM Andreas Sandberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> OK, that sounds reasonable. We shouldn't have any issues with that.
>
> I'd like someone from us to have a look as well, most likely Giacomo since
> I won't be able to find the time myself. However, don't let that block
> anything. Last time I looked at the code, it looked reasonable. I'm sure we
> can fix any issues once we start integrating it into our test setup.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
> On 03/08/2018 03:26, Sean Wilson wrote:
>
> My attempt to address your concerns, Andreas..
>
>
> Your issue with the baked-in test server was definitely reasonable. I've
> actually taken that part out of the library since it was so unreliable. A
> reliable test server would probably be a whole library in itself.
>
> My suggestion for running distributed tests would be to do basically the
> same thing you do now: list all the suites and kick off a distributed task
> for each suite uid. Each test is individually labeled with a UID. When
> using the `./main.py run` command you can supply the test suite uid with
> `--uid <SUITE-UID>`. That test and that test only will run.
>
> Your current xml aggregation solution sounds reasonable to me. The only
> issue you might run into is that a single result.xml is written to, so if
> all of gem5 is served over NFS you might get conflicts writing to the file.
> I can add an output path flag if you think this might be an issue for you.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Jason Lowe-Power <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Some more follow up. Sorry that this is going so slowly.
>>
>> Sean just did a pretty major reworking of the main library. See
>> https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4421. I'll let him address
>> Andreas's questions below. I think we're pretty close to having all three.
>>
>> I would really like to get this pushed in ASAP so someone (me, a student,
>> or others in the community) can start migrating all of the current tests
>> over to the new framework.
>>
>> As a quick preview, this is what the output looks like now.
>>
>> > cd tests
>> > ./main.py run
>> Running the new gem5 testing script.
>> For more information see TESTING.md.
>> To see details as the testing scripts are running, use the option -v,
>> -vv, or -vvv
>>
>> ======================================================================================================================
>> Loading Tests
>> Discovered 0 tests and 0 suites in /home/jlp/Code/gem5/gem5/tests/tests.py
>> Discovered 30 tests and 15 suites in
>> /home/jlp/Code/gem5/gem5/tests/gem5/hello_se/test_hello_se.py
>> Discovered 6 tests and 3 suites in
>> /home/jlp/Code/gem5/gem5/tests/gem5/m5_util/test_exit.py
>> Discovered 21 tests and 21 suites in
>> /home/jlp/Code/gem5/gem5/tests/gem5/test_build/test_build.py
>> ... <a few errors while we are transitioning>
>>
>> ======================================================================================================================
>> Running Tests from 9 suites
>> Results will be stored in /home/jlp/Code/gem5/gem5/tests/.testing-results
>>
>> ======================================================================================================================
>> Building the following targets. This may take a while.
>> /home/jlp/Code/gem5/gem5/build/RISCV/gem5.opt,
>> /home/jlp/Code/gem5/gem5/build/X86/gem5.opt,
>> /home/jlp/Code/gem5/gem5/build/ARM/gem5.opt
>> You may want to run with only a single ISA(--isa=), use --skip-build, or
>> use 'retest'.
>> Test: testhello64-static-X86-opt Passed
>> Test: testhello64-static-X86-opt-MatchStdoutNoPerf Passed
>> Test: testhello64-dynamic-X86-opt Passed
>> Test: testhello64-dynamic-X86-opt-MatchStdoutNoPerf Passed
>> Test: testhello32-static-X86-opt Passed
>> Test: testhello32-static-X86-opt-MatchStdoutNoPerf Passed
>> Test: testhello64-static-ARM-opt Passed
>> Test: testhello64-static-ARM-opt-MatchStdoutNoPerf Passed
>> Test: testhello32-static-ARM-opt Passed
>> Test: testhello32-static-ARM-opt-MatchStdoutNoPerf Passed
>> Test: m5_exit_test-X86-opt Passed
>> Test: m5_exit_test-X86-opt-MatchRegex Passed
>> Test: build-X86-opt Passed
>> Test: build-RISCV-opt Passed
>> Test: build-ARM-opt Passed
>> ====================================== Results: 15 Passed in 2.6e+01
>> seconds  ========================================
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 1:37 AM Andreas Sandberg <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jason,
>>>
>>> Thanks for doing this. I haven't had a chance to look at the code in
>>> details myself, but from what I have seen it looks like a real improvement.
>>> Ideally, I'd like someone from our side (probably Giacomo T) to have a look
>>> at it. However, Giacomo is currently travelling and I have other pressing
>>> matters to tend to. :(
>>>
>>> I have had a quick look at the code and it all looks reasonable. There
>>> are three things we need for CI integration:
>>>
>>>    1. Ability to separate build and test.
>>>    2. Ability to schedule individual (long-running) tests separately in
>>>    a cluster environment.
>>>    3. Ability to get a JUnit XML file with per-test results.
>>>
>>>
>>> With the potential exception of 2, I think the new framework supports
>>> all of the above. We could, maybe, use the support for distributed test
>>> using the test server in the framework, but I'm a bit reluctant to deploy
>>> it for two reasons. 1) It requires credentials to be hard-coded. It would
>>> be much more convenient to use an auto-generated authentication file (with
>>> suitable permissions) in a shared file location. 2) Having a custom server
>>> is potentially very unreliable since the network tends to be noisy (e.g.,
>>> port scanners, IDS software). The static allocation of a port will also be
>>> troublesome (e.g., when two servers run on the same node).
>>>
>>> In the current framework, we typically list the available tests and then
>>> create one cluster job per test. Once the tests complete, the CI framework
>>> aggregates all of the JUnit files (it also stores the pickle files for
>>> debugging) and generates a report. I'd like to be able to do something with
>>> the new framework. Is that possible?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>> On 05/07/2018 21:22, Jason Lowe-Power wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm hoping that we can finalize the new testing framework, and I can push
>>> it in within the next week or so. All of the important changes have at
>>> least one +2, but I want to give everyone one last chance to object or
>>> suggest changes. I've been talking to Sean, and while there's more that
>>> could be cleaned up in ext/testlib, we think it's good as it is. At a
>>> minimum, this will give us a starting point. I'd like to get this in soon
>>> so I can start adding more tests to it in the coming weeks.
>>>
>>> The patches are linked below:
>>> https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/4880/7https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/4881/7https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/4421/12https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/4882/13https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/4883/13https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/4422/13https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/4423/13https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/10121/4
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jason
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