Re: [PATCH] selftests: net: ip_defrag: increase netdev_max_backlog

[Eric Dumazet]

On 12/4/19 11:53 AM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> When using fragments with size 8 and payload larger than 8000, the backlog
> might fill up and packets will be dropped, causing the test to fail. This
> happens often enough when conntrack is on during the IPv6 test.
> 
> As the larger payload in the test is 10000, using a backlog of 1250 allow
> the test to run repeatedly without failure. At least a 1000 runs were
> possible with no failures, when usually less than 50 runs were good enough
> for showing a failure.
> 
> As netdev_max_backlog is not a pernet setting, this sets the backlog to
> 1000 during exit to prevent disturbing following tests.
> 

Hmmm... I would prefer not changing a global setting like that.
This is going to be flaky since we often run tests in parallel (using different netns)

What about adding a small delay after each sent packet ?

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ip_defrag.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ip_defrag.c
index c0c9ecb891e1d78585e0db95fd8783be31bc563a..24d0723d2e7e9b94c3e365ee2ee30e9445deafa8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/ip_defrag.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/ip_defrag.c
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ static void send_fragment(int fd_raw, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t alen,
                error(1, 0, "send_fragment: %d vs %d", res, frag_len);
 
        frag_counter++;
+       usleep(1000);
 }
 
 static void send_udp_frags(int fd_raw, struct sockaddr *addr,