Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] selftests: net: add netpoll basic functionality test

[Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 06:51:21AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:39:43 -0700 Breno Leitao wrote:
> > > FWIW you can steal bpftrace integration from this series:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250421222827.283737-22-kuba@kernel.org/  
> > 
> > Yes, that would be great. I think we can iterate until we hit the poll
> > path, otherwise we skip the test at timeout. Something as:
> > 
> > 	while (true):
> > 		send msg
> > 		if netpoll_poll_dev() was invoked:
> > 			ksft_exit
> > 		
> > 		if timeout:
> > 			raise KsftSkipEx
> > 	
> > As soon as your code lands, I will adapt the test to do so. Meanwhile,
> > I will send the v1 for the netpoll, and later we can iterate.
> > 
> > Thanks for working on this bfptrace helper. This will be useful on other
> > usecases as well.
> 
> Right, you're the second person I pointed that patch out to. Would be
> great if someone could steal that patch and make it a part of their
> series so that it gets merged 

I can do that. I was expecting your patches to be landed, and then
I would reuse it. I was not expecting to ship it as part of my patchset.


So, the selftest for netpoll is already in the mailing list[1], so, we
have two options, now:

  1) Steal your patch and make [1] depend on it.
  2) Merge the selftest [1] and, then, steal your patch by adding the
     bpftrace support in it.

What is your recommendation?

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250620-netpoll_test-v1-1-5068832f72fc@debian.org/ [1]

Thanks,
--breno