Re: [PATCH] kselftest/alsa: Increase kselftest timeout

[Shuah Khan]

On 12/13/22 11:32, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> The default timeout for kselftests is 45 seconds, but pcm-test can take
> longer than that to run depending on the number of PCMs present on a
> device.
>
> As a data point, running pcm-test on mt8192-asurada-spherion takes about
> 1m15s.
>
> Set the timeout to 10 minutes, which should give enough slack to run the
> test even on devices with many PCMs.

10 minutes is way too long.

> Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
>   tools/testing/selftests/alsa/settings | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>   create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/alsa/settings
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/alsa/settings b/tools/testing/selftests/alsa/settings
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a62d2fa1275c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/alsa/settings
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +timeout=600

Adding timeouts like this especially 10 minutes will increase the time
it takes to run tests. We run the risk of people not wanting to run tests
anymore.

thanks,
-- Shuah