Re: [PATCH] tests/qtest/migration-test: Only wait for serial output where migration succeeds

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Thomas Huth (thuth@redhat.com) wrote:
> Waiting for the serial output can take a couple of seconds - and since
> we're doing a lot of migration tests, this time easily sums up to
> multiple minutes. But if a test is supposed to fail, it does not make
> much sense to wait for the source to be in the right state first, so
> we can skip the waiting here. This way we can speed up all tests where
> the migration is supposed to fail. In the gitlab-CI gprov-gcov test,
> each of the migration-tests now run two minutes faster!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/qtest/migration-test.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
> index 520a5f917c..7be321b62d 100644
> --- a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
> +++ b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
> @@ -1307,7 +1307,9 @@ static void test_precopy_common(MigrateCommon *args)
>      }
>  
>      /* Wait for the first serial output from the source */
> -    wait_for_serial("src_serial");
> +    if (args->result == MIG_TEST_SUCCEED) {
> +        wait_for_serial("src_serial");
> +    }

I think this is OK, albeit only because all of the current fail-tests
are ones where the connection fails; we're not relying on the behaviour
of the emulator at all.  I wonder if it's worth going further and
running the source qemu's with -S (which may or not fail in other ways).

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

>  
>      if (!args->connect_uri) {
>          g_autofree char *local_connect_uri =
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 
-- 
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK