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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] Add env variable as workaround for test issues in VMs
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 07:31:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200427053125.GA21164@dell5510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200424150422.17467-1-mdoucha@suse.cz>

Hi Martin,

> Timer tests often fail on sleep overrun when LTP is running inside a VM.
> The main cause is usually that the VM doesn't get enough CPU time to wake up
> the test process in time.
Cannot we detect presence of "hypervisor" in flags in /proc/cpuinfo?
I though it was quite reliable for detecting VM.

> Disable upper bound checks in the tst_timer_test library if LTP_VM_ENV is set
> to non-zero value.

Kind regards,
Petr

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-27  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-24 15:04 [LTP] [PATCH] Add env variable as workaround for test issues in VMs Martin Doucha
2020-04-27  5:31 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2020-04-27  7:31   ` Jan Stancek
2020-04-27  7:41     ` Petr Vorel
2020-04-27  8:49     ` Li Wang
2020-04-27  9:06       ` Jan Stancek
2020-04-27  9:19         ` Petr Vorel
2020-04-27  9:23           ` Martin Doucha

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