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From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
To: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <Chaitanya.Kulkarni@wdc.com>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/7] nvme: consolidate nvme requirements based on transport type
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:25:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200914222523.GE148663@relinquished.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92478e6f-622a-a1ae-6189-4009f9a307bc@deltatee.com>

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 04:23:32PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020-09-14 4:09 p.m., Omar Sandoval wrote:
> >> I noticed this too during my review, but based on my read of the current
> >> blktest code, the return value of the requires() function is not
> >> actually used. It seems to only check if SKIP_REASON is set.
> >>
> >> If we want to ensure the return value of requires() is correct, perhaps
> >> we should check it after we call it and then consult SKIP_REASON? And
> >> WARN or fail if SKIP_REASON is set when requires() didn't return 1.
> 
> > Oops, you're right, I actually changed this a few months ago in
> > 4824ac3f5c4a ("Skip tests based on SKIP_REASON, not return value").
> > Totally forgot about that :) IMO it's still cleaner to chain them
> > together.
> 
> In my opinion, this creates a bit of confusion when reading the code.
> The &&s make it look like the return value is important when, in fact,
> it is not.
> 
> It is also easy to make the assumption that adding any bash command to
> the && list will skip the test -- however that is not the case and
> people may introduce subtle bugs that look correct, but go unnoticed.
> 
> Logan

Fair enough. Sagi, don't worry about changing this, I'll queue this up
once I try it out.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-14 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-03 23:53 [PATCH v7 0/7] blktests: Add support to run nvme tests with tcp/rdma transports Sagi Grimberg
2020-09-03 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 1/7] nvme: consolidate nvme requirements based on transport type Sagi Grimberg
2020-09-04  0:18   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-09-14 21:51   ` Omar Sandoval
2020-09-14 22:04     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 22:09       ` Omar Sandoval
2020-09-14 22:23         ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 22:25           ` Omar Sandoval [this message]
2020-09-03 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 2/7] nvme: consolidate some nvme-cli utility functions Sagi Grimberg
2020-09-04  0:19   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-09-03 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 3/7] nvme: make tests transport type agnostic Sagi Grimberg
2020-09-04  0:20   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-09-03 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 4/7] tests/nvme: restrict tests to specific transports Sagi Grimberg
2020-09-04  0:21   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-09-14 21:53   ` Omar Sandoval
2020-09-03 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 5/7] nvme: support nvme-tcp when runinng tests Sagi Grimberg
2020-09-04  0:21   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-09-03 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 6/7] common: move module_unload to common Sagi Grimberg
2020-09-04  0:22   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-09-03 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 7/7] nvme: support rdma transport type Sagi Grimberg
2020-09-04  0:23   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-09-04 17:00   ` Yi Zhang
2020-09-04 15:52 ` [PATCH v7 0/7] blktests: Add support to run nvme tests with tcp/rdma transports Logan Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 22:06 ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-09-25 17:32 ` Omar Sandoval

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