Re: [PATCH v1] selftests: openvswitch: retry instead of sleep

[Adrián Moreno]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 02:27:45PM GMT, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > There are a couple of places where the test script "sleep"s to wait for
> > some external condition to be met.
> >
> > This is error prone, specially in slow systems (identified in CI by
> > "KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW=yes").
> >
> > To fix this, add a "ovs_wait" function that tries to execute a command
> > a few times until it succeeds. The timeout used is set to 5s for
> > "normal" systems and doubled if a slow CI machine is detected.
> >
> > This should make the following work:
> >
> > $ vng --build  \
> >     --config tools/testing/selftests/net/config \
> >     --config kernel/configs/debug.config
> >
> > $ vng --run . --user root -- "make -C tools/testing/selftests/ \
> >     KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW=yes TARGETS=net/openvswitch run_tests"
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Looks like this does resolve the issue in question on the -dbg
> environment:
>
> https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/contest.html?executor=vmksft-net-dbg&test=openvswitch-sh

Nice! I guess the 10s global timeout is enough for now.

>
> Thanks Adrian!  Also, thanks for including the fractional sleep.
>
> Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks.

I just realized that I've missed the target branch ("net-next") in the
subject. I'll wait a bit and respin to fix that.

Adrián