Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] dynamic timeout for tests

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 7/11/23 10:49, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > so we keep making timeouts longer for CI but one has to stop
> > somewhere. netdev socket test recently failed for me again
> > even though it's at 2 minutes already.
> > here's an experiment for netdev-socket.
> > if this works well for a while we can generalize to other
> > tests.
> > 
> > Michael S. Tsirkin (2):
> >    osdep: add getloadavg
> >    netdev: set timeout depending on loadavg
> 
> The 2 problems I see with this approach are:
> 
> - Machine load can vary *after* the test is started,

Then it won't help. But better than increasing timeout
all the time, no?

> - Test environment isn't really reproducible.

But then load intrinsically is.

> Are those netdev tests only failing due to high load?

yep

> Maybe we need to disable them on CI and run them manually...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.

Most of our tests are like this.

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