[PATCH net-next v2 1/2] selftests: drv-net: rss_ctx: use Netlink for timed reconfig

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

The rss_ctx test has gotten pretty flaky after I increased
the queue count in NIPA 2->3. Not 100% clear why. We get
a lot of failures in the rss_ctx.test_hitless_key_update case.

Looking closer it appears that the failures are mostly due
to startup costs. I measured the following timing for ethtool -X:
 - python cmd(shell=True)  : 150-250msec
 - python cmd(shell=False) :  50- 70msec
 - timed in bash           :  45- 55msec
 - YNL Netlink call        :   2-  4msec
 - .set_rxfh callback      :   1-  2msec

The target in the test was set to 200msec. We were mostly measuring
ethtool startup cost it seems. Switch to YNL since it's 100x faster.

Lower the pass criteria to 150msec, no real science behind this number
but we removed some overhead, drivers which previously passed 200msec
should easily pass 150msec now.

Separately we should probably follow up on defaulting to shell=False,
when script doesn't explicitly ask for True, because the overhead
is rather significant.

Switch from _rss_key_rand() to random.randbytes(), YNL takes a binary
array rather than array of ints.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
v2:
 - increase the threshold to safer 150msec
 - mention change away from _rss_key_rand()
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/20250829220712.327920-1-kuba@kernel.org
---
 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py
index 9838b8457e5a..a5562a9f729f 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py
@@ -335,19 +335,20 @@ from lib.py import ethtool, ip, defer, GenerateTraffic, CmdExitFailure
     data = get_rss(cfg)
     key_len = len(data['rss-hash-key'])
 
-    key = _rss_key_rand(key_len)
+    ethnl = EthtoolFamily()
+    key = random.randbytes(key_len)
 
     tgen = GenerateTraffic(cfg)
     try:
         errors0, carrier0 = get_drop_err_sum(cfg)
         t0 = datetime.datetime.now()
-        ethtool(f"-X {cfg.ifname} hkey " + _rss_key_str(key))
+        ethnl.rss_set({"header": {"dev-index": cfg.ifindex}, "hkey": key})
         t1 = datetime.datetime.now()
         errors1, carrier1 = get_drop_err_sum(cfg)
     finally:
         tgen.wait_pkts_and_stop(5000)
 
-    ksft_lt((t1 - t0).total_seconds(), 0.2)
+    ksft_lt((t1 - t0).total_seconds(), 0.15)
     ksft_eq(errors1 - errors1, 0)
     ksft_eq(carrier1 - carrier0, 0)
 
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