Re: [PATCH v6 2/6] selftests/resctrl: Change the default limited time to 120 seconds

[Fenghua Yu]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 04:58:03PM +0900, Shaopeng Tan wrote:
> When testing on a Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6254 CPU @ 3.10GHz the resctrl
> selftests fail due to timeout after exceeding the default time limit of
> 45 seconds. On this system the test takes about 68 seconds.
> Since the failing test by default accesses a fixed size of memory, the
> execution time should not vary significantly between different environment.
> A new default of 120 seconds should be sufficient yet easy to customize
> with the introduction of the "settings" file for reference.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a383f3d4565b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/settings
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +# If running time is longer than 120 seconds when new tests are added in
> +# the future, increase timeout here.
> +timeout=120
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 
Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

-Fenghua