On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 at 18:13, Bruce Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bugzilla ID: 761 > > The standard "fast-tests" suite is used to sanity-check large parts > of the DPDK codebase, but it failed to run successfully on FreeBSD, > with large numbers of failures. This is a long-standing issue reported > in Bugzilla back in 2021 (hence the 3-digit BZ ID) > > This set attempts to rectify this situation by allowing the suite > to run without errors. Mostly it does this by disabling test suites > that rely on features like multi-process which are unsupported on > FreeBSD. It also fixes the test_debug suite which should run on > BSD but was failing. > > After this set, a run on my FreeBSD system passes with zero failures > and 22 tests reported as skipped. > > Bruce Richardson (7): > test/timer_secondary: skip test on FreeBSD > test/eal_flags: skip test on FreeBSD > test/pdump: skip test on FreeBSD > test/secondary_process: skip test on FreeBSD > test/external_memory: skip test on FreeBSD > test/interrupts: skip test on FreeBSD > test/debug: fix unit test on FreeBSD > > app/test/process.h | 11 ++++++++--- > app/test/test_debug.c | 6 +++--- > app/test/test_eal_flags.c | 26 +++++++++++++------------- > app/test/test_external_mem.c | 4 ++-- > app/test/test_interrupts.c | 2 +- > app/test/test_mp_secondary.c | 4 ++-- > app/test/test_pdump.c | 6 ++++++ > app/test/test_timer_secondary.c | 4 ++-- > 8 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
I would put the exec discovery rework in a first patch, then squash all the rest together. Otherwise, it lgtm on the principle. -- David Marchand
