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Message-ID: <20240207185151.4ea8a342@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 18:51:51 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Willem de
 Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, Coco Li <lixiaoyan@...gle.com>,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] selftests: net: cope with slow env in gro.sh test

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 18:42:52 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue,  6 Feb 2024 16:27:40 +0100 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > The gro self-tests sends the packets to be aggregated with
> > multiple write operations.
> > 
> > When running is slow environment, it's hard to guarantee that
> > the GRO engine will wait for the last packet in an intended
> > train.
> > 
> > The above causes almost deterministic failures in our CI for
> > the 'large' test-case.
> > 
> > Address the issue explicitly ignoring failures for such case
> > in slow environments (KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW==true).
> > 
> > Fixes: 7d1575014a63 ("selftests/net: GRO coalesce test")
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> > ---
> > Note that the fixes tag is there mainly to justify targeting the net
> > tree, and this is aiming at net to hopefully make the test more stable
> > ASAP for both trees.
> > 
> > I experimented with a largish refactory replacing the multiple writes
> > with a single GSO packet, but exhausted by time budget before reaching
> > any good result.  
> 
> It does make things a lot more stable, but there was still a failure
> recently:
> 
> https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-net-dbg/results/455661/36-gro-sh/stdout
> 
> :(

Ah, sorry, I missed the v2. That must have been between v1 and v2.

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