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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:01:43 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] perf test: Display number of remaining tests
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:22:42PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 7:12 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 12:09:31AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > > Before polling or sleeping to wait for a test to complete, print out
> > > ": Running (<num> remaining)" where the number of remaining tests is
> > > determined by iterating over the remaining tests and seeing which
> > > return true for check_if_command_finished. After the delay, erase the
> > > line and either update it with the new number of remaining tests, or
> > > print the test's result. This allows a user to know a test is running
> > > and in parallel mode (default) how many of the tests are waiting to
> > > complete. If color mode is disabled then avoid displaying the
> > > "Running" message.
> >
> > Tested and applied, great improvement!
> 
> And I think it is broken. Specifically I think the nohang waitpid can
> cause the later read of the stdout/err pipe to fail. We may need to
> drain the files before checking. I suspect this as I've seen an
> increase test fails where the verbose output shows nothing. The only
> remedy for that in the current code would be to run the tests
> sequentially, so we should probably back this out for now.

Removing it then,

- Arnaldo