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Berrange" , Beraldo Leal , Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Wainer dos Santos Moschetta , QEMU Developers , Cleber Rosa , Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" Thomas Huth writes: > On 20/01/2022 16.13, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 16:12, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> >>> "make check-acceptance" takes way way too long. I just did a run >>> on an arm-and-aarch64-targets-only debug build and it took over >>> half an hour, and this despite it skipping or cancelling 26 out >>> of 58 tests! >>> >>> I think that ~10 minutes runtime is reasonable. 30 is not; >>> ideally no individual test would take more than a minute or so. >>> >>> Output saying where the time went. The first two tests take >>> more than 10 minutes *each*. I think a good start would be to find >>> a way of testing what they're testing that is less heavyweight. >> >> Does anybody have some time to look at this? It makes >> 'check-acceptance' almost unusable for testing fixes locally... > > We could start using the "SPEED" environment variable there, too, just > like we already do it in the qtests, so that slow tests only get > executed with SPEED=slow or SPEED=thorough ...? No objection, but it's no replacement for looking into why these tests are so slow. The #1 reason for things being slow is not giving a damn :)