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From: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@intel.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: igt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 2/2] runner: Don't wait forever for processes to die
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 12:58:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191203105831.GY25209@platvala-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157537043129.7230.4065113539257661860@skylake-alporthouse-com>

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:53:51AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Petri Latvala (2019-12-03 10:44:57)
> > While the originally written timeout for process killing (2 seconds)
> > was way too short, waiting indefinitely is suboptimal as well. We're
> > seeing cases where the test is stuck for possibly hours in
> > uninterruptible sleep (IO). Wait a fairly longer selected time period
> > of 2 minutes, because even making progress for that long means the
> > machine is in bad enough state to require a good kicking and booting.
> 
> I'd still vote for a fast exit if we know we have oopsed. No point
> waiting 2 minutes for children we know can't die.

Yes, good point. v2 coming up.


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-03 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-03 10:44 [igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 1/2] runner: Actually ping watchdogs every interval Petri Latvala
2019-12-03 10:44 ` [igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 2/2] runner: Don't wait forever for processes to die Petri Latvala
2019-12-03 10:53   ` Chris Wilson
2019-12-03 10:58     ` Petri Latvala [this message]
2019-12-03 11:15   ` [igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t v2 " Petri Latvala
2019-12-03 11:37     ` Chris Wilson
2019-12-03 11:39 ` [igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 1/2] runner: Actually ping watchdogs every interval Chris Wilson
2019-12-03 11:51 ` [igt-dev] ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success for series starting with [i-g-t,1/2] runner: Actually ping watchdogs every interval (rev2) Patchwork
2019-12-03 16:31 ` [igt-dev] ✗ Fi.CI.IGT: failure " Patchwork

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