[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] tests: Enable running parallel unit tests for Windows.

[Gurucharan Shetty]

Thank you Eitan and Ben. I pushed this to master.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 06:00:23PM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
>> testsuite uses mkfifo in its job dispatcher that manages
>> parallel unit tests. MinGW does not have a mkfifo. This
>> results in unit tests running serially on Windows. Right
>> now it takes up to approximately 40 minutes to run all the
>> unit tests on Windows.
>>
>> This commit provides a job dispatcher for MinGW that uses
>> temporary files instead of mkfifo to manage parallel jobs.
>> With this commit, on a Windows machine with 4 cores and with
>> 8 parallel unit test sessions, it takes approximately 8
>> minutes to finish a unit test run.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>