[Piglit] non-concurrent piglit tests

Dylan Baker baker.dylan.c at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 14:23:19 PST 2015


Ah, okay. Never mind then.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 05:19:45PM -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> Right... so I'm looking for concrete things I can look for in tests to
> determine whether the run_concurrent=False is set incorrectly. I know
> the *approximate* reasons, but I'd like to be certain and then go grep
> it all and remove the run_concurrent flag from 75% of those that have
> it (either by updating the test or by determining that it has no need
> to be run single threaded).
> 
>   -ilia
> 
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Dylan Baker <baker.dylan.c at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't remember. I asked Ken about it when Marek updated a huge swath
> > of tests to run concurrent and I swapped the default flag from
> > non-concurrent to concurrent, but I don't remember all of the details.
> >
> > Front buffer rendering and timer query were two cases where concurrent
> > definitely wasn't safe.
> >
> > PS. I need to stop responding to emails from my phone.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:36:27PM -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> >> And how do you tell if a test is using front buffer rendering? Is that
> >> the only situation, or are there others?
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Dylan Baker <baker.dylan.c at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Any tests that use front buffer rendering cannot be run concurrently. I
> >> > think that's some other cases.
> >> >
> >> > On Nov 20, 2015 12:32, "Ilia Mirkin" <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> It looks like we're up to something like 1K non-concurrent piglit
> >> >> tests... maybe more. Can someone who actually understands the issues
> >> >> explain what makes a piglit test unreliable when run concurrently with
> >> >> another test? Then we can go and enable concurrency on probably 75% of
> >> >> the currently-marked-nonconcurrent tests.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >>
> >> >>   -ilia
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