In commit v2.8.0~170 (ENH: Added ctest test options PROCESSORS and
RUN_SERIAL, 2009-09-07) CTest learned to track the number of processors
allocated to running tests in order to balance it against the desired
level of parallelism. Extend this idea by introducing a new
`PROCESSOR_AFFINITY` test property to ask that CTest run a test
with the CPU affinity mask set. This will allow a set of tests
that are running concurrently to use disjoint CPU resources.
Refactoring in commit v3.4.0-rc1~390^2~1 (cmCTestMultiProcessHandler:
Refactor RUN_SERIAL implementation, 2015-06-01) forgot to update a code
path for cleaning up after a failed RUN_SERIAL test. This causes an
infinite loop after a RUN_SERIAL test fails. Fix it and add a test.
Add ctest command-line options:
--test-output-size-passed <n>
--test-output-size-failed <n>
to set the amount of test output to store in Test.xml as a command-line
dashboard client.
Add a TestLoad setting to CTest that can be set via a new --test-load
command-line option, CTEST_TEST_LOAD variable, or TEST_LOAD option to
the ctest_test command. Teach cmCTestMultiProcessHandler to measure
the CPU load and avoid starting tests that may take more than the
spare load currently available. The expression
<current_load> + <test_processors> <= <max-load>
must be true to start a new test.
Co-Author: Zack Galbreath <zack.galbreath@kitware.com>
Use the KWSys Process "MergeOutput" option to give each test child
process the same pipe for both stdout and stderr. This allows natural
merging of stdout and stderr together instead of merging on arbitrary
buffered read boundaries as before.
