From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] selftests: rtnetlink: fix addrlft test flakiness on power-saving systems
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:30:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250818183012.35f47956@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250715043459.110523-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com>
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:34:59 +0000 Hangbin Liu wrote:
> Jakub reported that the rtnetlink test for the preferred lifetime of an
> address has become quite flaky. The issue started appearing around the 6.16
> merge window in May, and the test fails with:
>
> FAIL: preferred_lft addresses remaining
>
> The flakiness might be related to power-saving behavior, as address
> expiration is handled by a "power-efficient" workqueue.
>
> To address this, use slowwait to check more frequently whether the address
> still exists. This reduces the likelihood of the system entering a low-power
> state during the test, improving reliability.
It flaked again, after long time of being fine..
https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-net/results/259361/15-rtnetlink-sh/stdout
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-19 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-15 4:34 [PATCH net] selftests: rtnetlink: fix addrlft test flakiness on power-saving systems Hangbin Liu
2025-07-16 22:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2025-08-19 1:30 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-08-19 1:50 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-08-19 2:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20250818183012.35f47956@kernel.org \
--to=kuba@kernel.org \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=edumazet@google.com \
--cc=horms@kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=liuhangbin@gmail.com \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=pabeni@redhat.com \
--cc=shuah@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.