[Gluster-devel] Proposal for improving throughput for regression test

[Justin Clift]

On 8 May 2015, at 18:41, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Break the regression tests into parts that can be run in parallel.
>> 
>> So, instead of the regression testing for a particular CR going from the
>> first test to the last in a serial sequence, we break it up into a number
>> of chunks (dir based?) and make each of these a task.
>> 
>> That won't reduce the overall number of tests, but it should get the time
>> down for the result to be finished.
>> 
>> Caveat : We're going to need more VM's, as once we get into things
>> queueing up it's not going to help. :/
> Raghavendra Talur(CCed) did some work on this earlier by using more docker isntances on a single VM to get the running time under an hour.

Interesting idea.  Any idea if this Docker approach could be made to work
in CentOS 6 for our existing VM's?

+ Justin

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