[PATCH v3 4/5] selftests/resctrl: Change the default limited time to 120 seconds

Shaopeng Tan
2022-02-16T02:30:03Z

When testing on a Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6254 CPU @ 3.10GHz the resctrl
selftests fail due to timeout after exceeding the default time limit of
45 seconds. On this system the test takes about 68 seconds.
Since the failing test by default accesses a fixed size of memory, the
execution time should not vary significantly between different environment.
A new default of 120 seconds should be sufficient yet easy to customize
with the introduction of the "settings" file for reference.

Signed-off-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
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From the perspective of the kselftest framework,
a rule of "Don't take too long" is a concern.
To get some better informed opinions from kselftest audience,
I highlighted this change in the cover letter.

I adopted most of Reinette's phrase from the discussion in patch v2
to explain why 120s is appropriate for this test.

tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6091b45d226b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+timeout=120
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