netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 06/12] selftests/vsock: speed up tests by reducing the QEMU pidfile timeout

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Message-ID: <aQJH4mTKNVlEDgjC@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:59:14 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...il.com>
Cc: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, virtualization@...ts.linux.dev,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...a.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/12] selftests/vsock: speed up tests by
 reducing the QEMU pidfile timeout

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 06:00:10PM -0700, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> From: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...a.com>
> 
> Reduce the time waiting for the QEMU pidfile from three minutes to five
> seconds. The three minute time window was chosen to make sure QEMU had
> enough time to fully boot up. This, however, is an unreasonably long
> delay for QEMU to write the pidfile, which happens earlier when the QEMU
> process starts (not after VM boot). The three minute delay becomes
> noticeably wasteful in future tests that expect QEMU to fail and wait a
> full three minutes for a pidfile that will never exist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...a.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>