[Piglit] [Announce] Swineherd: A piglit test runner written in C++

[Jason Ekstrand]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 3:57 PM Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I've been off and on working on a new test runner for piglit written in
> C++14.
> Its been sitting on my gitlab publicly for a bit, and I've shared it with
> some
> people at Intel, but I thought I'd send out an announcement and see if I
> could
> get some more interest. It's called swineherd, and it lives here:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbaker/swineherd
>
> Swineherd currently is pretty limited, it still needs a lot of work to be a
> replacement for the piglit runner, but it can run tests and get output,
> and does
> so much faster than the python runner.
>
> It currently can:
>  - read the gz compressed profile xml that piglit produces
>  - run tests
>  - get the output of tests
>  - write an uncompressed json file that piglit's summary tools can consume
>  - only builds and runs on Linux
>
> I have a few opened issues on the gitlab tracker for it, that I may or may
> not
> get around to doing all of.
>
> I currently don't plan this to support every single option piglit does,
> because
> my main concern with swineherd is performance, I want this runner to be as
> fast
> as possible. Among the things I don't want to implement:
>
>  - dmesg support. This forces serial test running and pauses between tests.
>  - reboot on failure support
>

Those two nerf piglit runtimes so badly that you're not going to gain
anything from a C++ runner.  I'm perfectly happy for us to carry python for
that for now.


>  - other things I haven't mentioned
>
> I'd be happy to take MRs for this, if you'd like to add things or fix
> things :)
>
> I'm also opened to merging this into piglit proper, once I feel like it's
> pretty
> stable and has enough features to be generally useful.
>
> Dylan
>
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