Re: [TEST] The no-kvm CI instances going away

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 10:44:14 +0100 Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> > Unfortunately I'm really behind on my "real job". I don't have a clear
> > plan. I think we should scale the timeout by 2x or so, but I haven't
> > looked how to do that.  
> 
> No hurry, I understand.
> 
> It is not clear to me how the patches you add on top of the ones from
> patchwork are managed. Then, I don't know if it can help, but on the
> debug instance, this command could be launched before starting the tests
> to double the timeout values in all the "net" selftests:
> 
>   $ find tools/testing/selftests/net -name settings -print0 | xargs -0 \
>        awk -i inplace -F '=' \
>            '{if ($1 == "timeout") { print $1 "=" $2*2 } else { print }}'

I'd rather not modify the tree. Poking around - this seems to work:

  export kselftest_override_timeout=1

Now it's just a matter of finding 15min to code it up :)