[PATCH] iotests: increase timeouts for tests to 5 minutes

[PATCH] iotests: increase timeouts for tests to 5 minutes

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

Currently we have tests timeout set to 3 minutes, on the basis
that they're generally done in less than a minute. I've hit a
couple of random failures suggesting that's not sufficiently
pessimistic. Increase the timeout to 5 minutes to have a greater
safety net in high load scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build b/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build
index bc6132a0f7..8857f25f29 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build
@@ -52,16 +52,17 @@ foreach driver, speed: qemu_iotests_drivers
               '-tap', '-' + driver, item,
               '--source-dir', meson.current_source_dir(),
               '--build-dir', meson.current_build_dir()]
-      # Some individual tests take as long as 45 seconds
-      # Bump the timeout to 3 minutes for some headroom
-      # on slow machines to minimize spurious failures
+      # Some individual tests take as long as 3 minutes
+      # in high load scenarios. Bump the timeout to 5
+      # minutes for some headroom on slow / loaded
+      # machines to minimize spurious failures
       test('io-' + driver + '-' + item,
            python,
            args: args,
            depends: qemu_iotests_binaries,
            env: qemu_iotests_env,
            protocol: 'tap',
-           timeout: 180,
+           timeout: 300,
            suite: suites)
     endforeach
   endif
@@ -94,16 +95,14 @@ foreach driver, speed: qemu_iotests_drivers
               '-tap', '-' + driver, item,
               '--source-dir', meson.current_source_dir(),
               '--build-dir', meson.current_build_dir()]
-      # Some individual tests take as long as 45 seconds
-      # Bump the timeout to 3 minutes for some headroom
-      # on slow machines to minimize spurious failures
+      # See earlier note about timeouts
       test('io-' + driver + '-' + item,
            python,
            args: args,
            depends: qemu_iotests_binaries,
            env: qemu_iotests_env,
            protocol: 'tap',
-           timeout: 180,
+           timeout: 300,
            suite: suites)
   endforeach
 endforeach
-- 
2.54.0

Re: [PATCH] iotests: increase timeouts for tests to 5 minutes

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

Ping: any reviewers for this simple robustness fix.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 05:03:26PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Currently we have tests timeout set to 3 minutes, on the basis
> that they're generally done in less than a minute. I've hit a
> couple of random failures suggesting that's not sufficiently
> pessimistic. Increase the timeout to 5 minutes to have a greater
> safety net in high load scenarios.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build | 15 +++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build b/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build
> index bc6132a0f7..8857f25f29 100644
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build
> @@ -52,16 +52,17 @@ foreach driver, speed: qemu_iotests_drivers
>                '-tap', '-' + driver, item,
>                '--source-dir', meson.current_source_dir(),
>                '--build-dir', meson.current_build_dir()]
> -      # Some individual tests take as long as 45 seconds
> -      # Bump the timeout to 3 minutes for some headroom
> -      # on slow machines to minimize spurious failures
> +      # Some individual tests take as long as 3 minutes
> +      # in high load scenarios. Bump the timeout to 5
> +      # minutes for some headroom on slow / loaded
> +      # machines to minimize spurious failures
>        test('io-' + driver + '-' + item,
>             python,
>             args: args,
>             depends: qemu_iotests_binaries,
>             env: qemu_iotests_env,
>             protocol: 'tap',
> -           timeout: 180,
> +           timeout: 300,
>             suite: suites)
>      endforeach
>    endif
> @@ -94,16 +95,14 @@ foreach driver, speed: qemu_iotests_drivers
>                '-tap', '-' + driver, item,
>                '--source-dir', meson.current_source_dir(),
>                '--build-dir', meson.current_build_dir()]
> -      # Some individual tests take as long as 45 seconds
> -      # Bump the timeout to 3 minutes for some headroom
> -      # on slow machines to minimize spurious failures
> +      # See earlier note about timeouts
>        test('io-' + driver + '-' + item,
>             python,
>             args: args,
>             depends: qemu_iotests_binaries,
>             env: qemu_iotests_env,
>             protocol: 'tap',
> -           timeout: 180,
> +           timeout: 300,
>             suite: suites)
>    endforeach
>  endforeach
> -- 
> 2.54.0
> 
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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