Summary:
When GNU parallel is available, "make check" tests are now run in parallel.
When /dev/shm is usable, we tell those tests to create temporary files therein.
Now, the longest-running single test, db_test, (which is composed of hundreds of sub-tests)
is no longer run sequentially: instead, each of its sub-tests is run independently, and can
be parallelized along with all other tests. To make that process easier, this change
creates a temporary directory, "t/", in which it puts a small script for each of those
subtests. The output from each parallel-run test is now saved in t/log-TEST_NAME.
When GNU parallel is not available, we run the tests in sequence, just as before.
If GNU parallel is available and you don't like the default of running one subtest
per core, you can invoke "make J=1 check" to run only one test at a time.
Beware: this will take a long time, and it starts with the two longest-running tests, so you
will wait for a long time before seeing any results. Instead, if you want to use fewer resources
but still see useful progress, try "make J=60% check". That will attempt to ensure that 60% of
the cores are occupied by test runs.
To watch progress of individual tests (duration, success (PASS-or-FAIL), name), run "make watch-log"
in the same directory from another window. That will start with something like this:
and when complete should show numbers/names like this:
Every 0.1s: sort -k7,7nr -k4,4gr LOG|perl -n -e '@a=split("\t",$_,-1); $t=$a[8]; $t =~ s,^\./,,;' -e '$t =~ s, >.*,,; chomp $t;' -e '$t =~ /.*--gtest_filter=... Wed Apr 1 10:51:42 2015
152.221 PASS t/DBTest.FileCreationRandomFailure
109.280 PASS t/DBTest.EncodeDecompressedBlockSizeTest
82.315 PASS reduce_levels_test
77.812 PASS t/DBTest.CompactionFilterWithValueChange
73.236 PASS backupable_db_test
63.428 PASS deletefile_test
57.248 PASS table_test
55.665 PASS prefix_test
49.816 PASS t/DBTest.RateLimitingTest
...
Test Plan:
Timings (measured so as to exclude compile and link times):
With this change, all tests complete in 2m40s on a system for which nproc prints 32.
Prior to this this change, "make check" would take 24.5 minutes on that same system.
Here are durations (in seconds) of the longest-running subtests:
152.435 PASS t/DBTest.FileCreationRandomFailure
107.070 PASS t/DBTest.EncodeDecompressedBlockSizeTest
81.391 PASS ./reduce_levels_test
71.587 PASS ./backupable_db_test
61.746 PASS ./deletefile_test
57.960 PASS ./table_test
55.230 PASS ./prefix_test
54.060 PASS t/DBTest.CompactionFilterWithValueChange
48.873 PASS t/DBTest.RateLimitingTest
47.569 PASS ./fault_injection_test
46.593 PASS t/DBTest.Randomized
42.662 PASS t/DBTest.CompactionFilter
31.793 PASS t/DBTest.SparseMerge
30.612 PASS t/DBTest.CompactionFilterV2
25.891 PASS t/DBTest.GroupCommitTest
23.863 PASS t/DBTest.DynamicLevelMaxBytesBase
22.976 PASS ./rate_limiter_test
18.942 PASS t/DBTest.OptimizeFiltersForHits
16.851 PASS ./env_test
15.399 PASS t/DBTest.CompactionFilterV2WithValueChange
14.827 PASS t/DBTest.CompactionFilterV2NULLPrefix
Reviewers: igor, sdong, rven, yhchiang, igor.sugak
Reviewed By: igor.sugak
Subscribers: dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D35379