[PATCH v2 8/8] perf test: Make parallel testing the default

[Ian Rogers]

Now C tests can have the "exclusive" flag to run without other tests,
and shell tests can add "(exclusive)" to their description, run tests
in parallel by default. Tests which flake when run in parallel can be
marked exclusive to resolve the problem.

Non-scientifically, the reduction on `perf test` execution time is
from 8m35.890s to 3m55.115s on a Tigerlake laptop. So the tests
complete in less than half the time.

Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 13 ++-----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
index ba3797521d79..09afe884a987 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
  * making them easier to debug.
  */
 static bool dont_fork;
-/* Don't fork the tests in parallel and wait for their completion. */
-static bool sequential = true;
+/* Fork the tests in parallel and wait for their completion. */
+static bool sequential;
 const char *dso_to_test;
 const char *test_objdump_path = "objdump";
 
@@ -626,19 +626,12 @@ int cmd_test(int argc, const char **argv)
 	};
 	const char *skip = NULL;
 	const char *workload = NULL;
-	/*
-	 * Run tests in parallel, lacks infrastructure to avoid running tests
-	 * that clash for resources, So leave it as the developers choice to
-	 * enable while working on the needed infra.
-	 */
-	bool parallel = false;
 	const struct option test_options[] = {
 	OPT_STRING('s', "skip", &skip, "tests", "tests to skip"),
 	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		    "be more verbose (show symbol address, etc)"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('F', "dont-fork", &dont_fork,
 		    "Do not fork for testcase"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('p', "parallel", &parallel, "Run the tests in parallel"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('S', "sequential", &sequential,
 		    "Run the tests one after another rather than in parallel"),
 	OPT_STRING('w', "workload", &workload, "work", "workload to run for testing"),
@@ -669,8 +662,6 @@ int cmd_test(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	if (dont_fork)
 		sequential = true;
-	else if (parallel)
-		sequential = false;
 
 	symbol_conf.priv_size = sizeof(int);
 	symbol_conf.try_vmlinux_path = true;
-- 
2.47.0.rc1.288.g06298d1525-goog