Re: [PATCH net-next 06/12] selftests/vsock: speed up tests by reducing the QEMU pidfile timeout

From: Simon Horman

Date: Wed Oct 29 2025 - 12:59:18 EST


On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 06:00:10PM -0700, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> From: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Reduce the time waiting for the QEMU pidfile from three minutes to five
> seconds. The three minute time window was chosen to make sure QEMU had
> enough time to fully boot up. This, however, is an unreasonably long
> delay for QEMU to write the pidfile, which happens earlier when the QEMU
> process starts (not after VM boot). The three minute delay becomes
> noticeably wasteful in future tests that expect QEMU to fail and wait a
> full three minutes for a pidfile that will never exist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>