11752 2017-07-04 16:07:40 +0000 selftest test cases should use the test data and/or tinfoil instead of bitbake 2017-09-26 16:22:27 +0000 1 1 10 QA/Testing Runtime Testing general 2.4 x86 Multiple RESOLVED WONTFIX Medium enhancement 2.4 1 leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 74735 0 leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez 2017-07-04 16:07:40 +0000 Selftest test cases uses the functions get_bb_var and get_bb_vars to access the datastore through a bitbake process launch & parse. This is too expensive in terms of performance and should be replaced to either query the 'test data' dictionary from the selftest main test case or use tinfoil (or both). 74736 1 leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez 2017-07-04 16:10:36 +0000 There is some preliminar work tracked at branch [1]. This work just focuses on querying the local test data, so no tinfoil usage at all for the moment. [1] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=lsandov1/selftest-use-td No performance gains seen with the latter so far, so taken approach may be wrong. 77146 2 leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez 2017-09-26 16:22:27 +0000 I did some performance benchmarks with branch [1] which avoids bitbake process launch but gains are minimal (I do have the numbers) so will close this bug as wontfix. So, it was a good idea but turned in practice that it is not worth it. [1] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=lsandov1/selftest-use-td-debug