Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 0/7] Block patches

["Marc-André Lureau" <mlureau@redhat.com>]

Hi

----- Original Message -----
> On 9 November 2015 at 15:09, Marc-André Lureau <mlureau@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On 9 November 2015 at 12:51, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> Marc-André, can you look into why the ivshmem tests might be
> >> intermittently
> >> failing like this, please?
> >
> > Is this with an slow or emulated host? It could be that the 5s timeout
> > is not enough?
> 
> This is with the 32-bit build on a 64-bit ARM server box. So it's
> not the fastest machine in the world, but it's not bad either.
> It will be using TCG, obviously.
> 
> A test which takes 5 seconds to run isn't ideal from a "keep
> the make-check time down" perspective either.

I can imagine a test starting a server thread and 2 qemu instances would take more than 5s on such configuration then.

Could you try timing the test a few times to confirm this?

If it's too long, I suggest we move it to g_test_slow(), and perhaps get rid of the timer. 

thanks