Re: [PATCH] tests: increase timeout per instance of bios-tables-test

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 02:59:30PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> CI often fails 'cross-i686-tci' job due to runner slowness
> Log shows that test almost complete, with a few remaining
> when bios-tables-test timeout hits:
> 
>   19/270 qemu:qtest+qtest-aarch64 / qtest-aarch64/bios-tables-test
>     TIMEOUT        610.02s   killed by signal 15 SIGTERM
>   ...
>   stderr:
>   TAP parsing error: Too few tests run (expected 8, got 7)
> 
> At the same time overall job running time is only ~30 out of 1hr allowed.
> 
> Increase bios-tables-test instance timeout on 5min as a fix
> for slow CI runners.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

We can't just keep increasing the timeout.
The issue is checking wall time on a busy host,
isn't it? Let's check CPU time instead.

> ---
>  tests/qtest/meson.build | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qtest/meson.build b/tests/qtest/meson.build
> index 6508bfb1a2..ff9200f882 100644
> --- a/tests/qtest/meson.build
> +++ b/tests/qtest/meson.build
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  slow_qtests = {
>    'aspeed_smc-test': 360,
> -  'bios-tables-test' : 610,
> +  'bios-tables-test' : 910,
>    'cdrom-test' : 610,
>    'device-introspect-test' : 720,
>    'migration-test' : 480,
> -- 
> 2.43.0