netdev - Re: [PATCH net] selftests: net: wait for receiver startup in so

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 11:17:30 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Shuah Khan
 <shuah@...nel.org>, Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] selftests: net: wait for receiver startup in
 so_txtime.sh

On Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:45:28 +0100 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> But I'm pretty sure that even with that there will be sporadic failures
> in slow enough environments.
> 
> When the host-induced jitter/delay is high enough, packets are dropped
> and there are functional failures. I'm wondering if we should skip this
> test entirely when KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW=yes.

By skip do you mean the same approach as to the gro test?
Ignore errors? Because keeping the code coverage for KASAN etc.
would still be good (stating the obvious, sorry).