netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] net/selftests: TCP-AO selftests updates

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Message-ID: <20240827141041.0c815dbd@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:10:41 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Dmitry Safonov via B4 Relay <devnull+0x7f454c46.gmail.com@...nel.org>
Cc: 0x7f454c46@...il.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan
 <shuah@...nel.org>, Mohammad Nassiri <mnassiri@...na.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] net/selftests: TCP-AO selftests updates

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:04:50 +0100 Dmitry Safonov via B4 Relay wrote:
> First 3 patches are more-or-less cleanups/preparations.
> 
> Patches 4/5 are fixes for netns file descriptors leaks/open.
> 
> Patch 6 was sent to me/contributed off-list by Mohammad, who wants 32-bit
> kernels to run TCP-AO.
> 
> Patch 7 is a workaround/fix for slow VMs. Albeit, I can't reproduce
> the issue, but I hope it will fix netdev flakes for connect-deny-*
> tests.
> 
> And the biggest change is adding TCP-AO tracepoints to selftests.
> I think it's a good addition by the following reasons:
> - The related tracepoints are now tested;
> - It allows tcp-ao selftests to raise expectations on the kernel
>   behavior - up from the syscalls exit statuses + net counters.
> - Provides tracepoints usage samples.

Looks like we got no flakes over the weekend, so applying, thanks! :)