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From: Dimitri Daskalakis <dimitri.daskalakis1@gmail.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Nimrod Oren <noren@nvidia.com>, Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,
	Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] selftests: drv-net: rss: Add retries to test_rss_key_indir to reduce flakes
Date: Mon,  9 Mar 2026 13:42:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260309204215.2110486-1-dimitri.daskalakis1@gmail.com> (raw)

The test generates 16 flows, and verifies that traffic is distributed
across two queues via the NICs RSS indirection table. The likelihood of the
flows skewing to a single queue is high, so we retry sending traffic up to
3 times.

Alternatively, we could increase the number of generated flows. But
debug kernels may struggle to ramp this many flows.

During manual testing, the test passed for 10,000 consecutive runs.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Daskalakis <dimitri.daskalakis1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
 .../selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py       | 29 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py
index d7cb30306368..51f4e7bc3e5d 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py
@@ -166,9 +166,17 @@ def test_rss_key_indir(cfg):
     ksft_eq(1, max(data['rss-indirection-table']))
 
     # Check we only get traffic on the first 2 queues
-    cnts = _get_rx_cnts(cfg)
-    GenerateTraffic(cfg).wait_pkts_and_stop(20000)
-    cnts = _get_rx_cnts(cfg, prev=cnts)
+
+    # Retry a few times in case the flows skew to a single queue.
+    attempts = 3
+    for attempt in range(attempts):
+        cnts = _get_rx_cnts(cfg)
+        GenerateTraffic(cfg).wait_pkts_and_stop(20000)
+        cnts = _get_rx_cnts(cfg, prev=cnts)
+        if cnts[0] >= 5000 and cnts[1] >= 5000:
+            break
+        ksft_pr(f"Skewed queue distribution, attempt {attempt + 1}/{attempts}: " + str(cnts))
+
     # 2 queues, 20k packets, must be at least 5k per queue
     ksft_ge(cnts[0], 5000, "traffic on main context (1/2): " + str(cnts))
     ksft_ge(cnts[1], 5000, "traffic on main context (2/2): " + str(cnts))
@@ -178,9 +186,18 @@ def test_rss_key_indir(cfg):
     # Restore, and check traffic gets spread again
     reset_indir.exec()
 
-    cnts = _get_rx_cnts(cfg)
-    GenerateTraffic(cfg).wait_pkts_and_stop(20000)
-    cnts = _get_rx_cnts(cfg, prev=cnts)
+    for attempt in range(attempts):
+        cnts = _get_rx_cnts(cfg)
+        GenerateTraffic(cfg).wait_pkts_and_stop(20000)
+        cnts = _get_rx_cnts(cfg, prev=cnts)
+        if qcnt > 4:
+            if sum(cnts[:2]) < sum(cnts[2:]):
+                break
+        else:
+            if cnts[2] >= 3500:
+                break
+        ksft_pr(f"Skewed queue distribution, attempt {attempt + 1}/{attempts}: " + str(cnts))
+
     if qcnt > 4:
         # First two queues get less traffic than all the rest
         ksft_lt(sum(cnts[:2]), sum(cnts[2:]),
-- 
2.52.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-09 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-09 20:42 Dimitri Daskalakis [this message]
2026-03-10  4:23 ` [PATCH net-next] selftests: drv-net: rss: Add retries to test_rss_key_indir to reduce flakes Pavan Chebbi
2026-03-11  2:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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