netdev - Re: [PATCH net] selftests/net: big_tcp: longer netperf session on slow machines

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Message-ID: <20250220165401.6d9bfc8c@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:54:01 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Pablo Martin Medrano <pablmart@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon
 Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] selftests/net: big_tcp: longer netperf session on
 slow machines

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:19:28 +0100 Pablo Martin Medrano wrote:
> After debugging the following output for big_tcp.sh on a board:
> 
> CLI GSO | GW GRO | GW GSO | SER GRO
> on        on       on       on      : [PASS]
> on        off      on       off     : [PASS]
> off       on       on       on      : [FAIL_on_link1]
> on        on       off      on      : [FAIL_on_link1]
> 
> Davide Caratti found that by default the test duration 1s is too short
> in slow systems to reach the correct cwd size necessary for tcp/ip to
> generate at least one packet bigger than 65536 (matching the iptables
> match on length rule the test evaluates)

Why not increase the test duration then?