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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH v3 1/2] include: add an exponential backoff macro for function repeat
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:58:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180423095855.GA24481@rei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180421021600.17549-1-liwang@redhat.com>

Hi!
> +#define TST_RETRY_FN_EXP_BACKOFF(FUNC, ERET, MAX_DELAY)	\
> +({	int tst_delay = 1;					\
> +	for (;;) {						\
> +		typeof(FUNC) ret = FUNC;			\
                              ^
		I prefixed this variable with tst_ and even added _
		suffix to make sure that it will not alias either.

> +		if (ret == ERET)				\
> +			break;					\
> +		if (tst_delay < MAX_DELAY * 1000000) {		\
> +			tst_res(TINFO,				\
> +				#FUNC" returned %i, retrying"	\
> +				" in %ius", ret, tst_delay);	\
> +			usleep(tst_delay);			\
> +			tst_delay *= 2;				\
> +		} else {					\
> +			tst_brk(TBROK, #FUNC" failed");		\
> +		}						\
> +	}							\
> +	ERET;							\
> +})

And pushed, thanks.

I know that the documentation is there in the comment but we should
probably add a note about the macro into the test-writing-guidelines.txt
as well...

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-23  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-21  2:15 [LTP] [PATCH v3 1/2] include: add an exponential backoff macro for function repeat Li Wang
2018-04-23  9:58 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2018-04-23 10:53   ` Li Wang

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