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Message-ID: <65bab9ac3fdaf_1c8a1f29426@willemb.c.googlers.com.notmuch>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:20:44 -0500
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: pabeni@...hat.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org,
davem@...emloft.net,
edumazet@...gle.com,
linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] selftests/net: calibrate txtimestamp
Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:27:34 -0500 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > +1 I also think we should run and ignore failure. I was wondering if we
> > > can swap FAIL for XFAIL in those cases:
> > >
> > > tools/testing/selftests/kselftest.h
> > > #define KSFT_XFAIL 2
> > >
> > > Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst
> > > - "XFAIL", which indicates that a test is expected to fail. This
> > > is similar to "TODO", above, and is used by some kselftest tests.
> > >
> > > IDK if that's a stretch or not. Or we can just return PASS with
> > > a comment?
> >
> > Flaky tests will then report both pass and expected fail. That might
> > add noise to https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/flakes.html?
> >
> > I initially considered returning skipped on timing failure. But that
> > has the same issue.
> >
> > So perhaps just return pass?
> >
> >
> > Especially for flaky tests sometimes returning pass and sometimes
> > returning expected to fa red/green
> > dash such as
>
> Right, we only have pass / fail / skip. (I put the "warn" result in for
> tests migrated from patchwork so ignore its existence for tests.)
>
> We already treat XFAIL in KTAP as "pass". TCP-AO's key-managemeent_ipv6
> test for example already reports XFAIL:
Ok perfect. Then I'll do the same.
> # ok 15 # XFAIL listen() after current/rnext keys set: the socket has current/rn
> ext keys: 100:200
>
> Skips look somewhat similar in KTAP, "ok $number # SKIP" but we fish
> those out specifically to catch skips. Any other "ok .... # comment"
> KTAP result is treated as a "pass" right now.
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