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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 2/4] support/testing: allow to use extra large timeouts
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:25:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170731212504.7f4ebf3b@windsurf.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170730044946.11999-2-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>

Hello,

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 01:49:44 -0300, Ricardo Martincoski wrote:

> diff --git a/support/testing/run-tests b/support/testing/run-tests
> index 0cb673c61f..33ac60d6b2 100755
> --- a/support/testing/run-tests
> +++ b/support/testing/run-tests
> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ def main():
>                          help='number of testcases to run simultaneously')
>      parser.add_argument('-j', '--jlevel', type=int,
>                          help='BR2_JLEVEL to use for each testcase')
> +    parser.add_argument('-e', '--elastic-timeout', type=int, default=1,
> +                        help='increase timeouts (useful for slow machines)')

I find the choice of the "elastic timeout" a bit weird. To me, it feels
like a timeout that will reduce and extend like an elastic, not a
timeout multiplier.

Perhaps we should call this --timeout-multiplier or something like
that ?

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-31 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-30  4:49 [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 1/4] .gitlab-ci.yml: save rootfs as artifact for runtime tests Ricardo Martincoski
2017-07-30  4:49 ` [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 2/4] support/testing: allow to use extra large timeouts Ricardo Martincoski
2017-07-31 19:25   ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2017-07-31 23:27     ` Ricardo Martincoski
2017-08-01  6:01       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-08-05  2:05   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] support/testing: allow to use a multiplier for timeouts Ricardo Martincoski
2017-08-05  2:05     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] .gitlab-ci.yml: use large timeouts for runtime tests Ricardo Martincoski
2017-08-10  9:18     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] support/testing: allow to use a multiplier for timeouts Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-07-30  4:49 ` [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 3/4] .gitlab-ci.yml: use large timeouts for runtime tests Ricardo Martincoski
2017-07-30  4:49 ` [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 4/4] testing/infra/emulator: remove qemu warnings about audio Ricardo Martincoski
2017-07-31 19:26   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-07-31 19:24 ` [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 1/4] .gitlab-ci.yml: save rootfs as artifact for runtime tests Thomas Petazzoni

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