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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: cota@braap.org, ehabkost@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] tests: replace rem = sleep(time) with g_timer
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:43:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89afa3af-940d-7f3b-ee7c-25027bfd18f5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190111143815.26107-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

On 11/01/19 15:38, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Relying on sleep to always return having slept isn't safe as a signal
> may have occurred. If signals are constantly incoming the program will
> never reach it's termination condition. This is believed to be the
> mechanism causing time outs for qht-test in Travis.
> 
> Instead we use a g_timer to determine if the duration of the test has
> passed and sleep for a second at a time. This may bias benchmark
> results for short runs.

Why not g_usleep?  It already does a while loop around nanosleep (which
returns the remaining time in the wait, like select but unlike sleep and
poll).

Thanks,

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-11 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11 14:38 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] tests: replace rem = sleep(time) with g_timer Alex Bennée
2019-01-11 14:43 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-01-11 15:28   ` Alex Bennée
2019-01-11 15:41     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-01-11 16:05       ` Alex Bennée
2019-01-11 16:06       ` Alex Bennée
2019-01-11 19:05         ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-01-11 18:32       ` Greg Kurz
2019-01-11 19:25         ` Alex Bennée

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