DPDK Release Status Meeting 2023-11-23

[Thomas Monjalon]

27/11/2023 03:51, Ruifeng Wang:
> On 2023/11/26 8:44 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 at 01:55, Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com> wrote:
> >> On 2023/11/24 4:53 PM, Mcnamara, John wrote:
> >>> Release status meeting minutes 2023-11-23
> >>>       * LCOREs autotest timing out on ARM:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/home:bluca:dpdk/dpdk/Debian_12/aarch64
> >>
> >> The failure relates to test environment. 50s is not enough for lcores
> >> test to finish.
> >>
> >> Due to a relative bigger RTE_MAX_LCORE value on ARM, the unit test case
> >> would take a longer time to finish iterations.
> >> In one of my run, the case took about 100s.
> > 
> > Right, but this test is part of the "fast suite", and more than a
> > minute is not exactly fast. So one of the following should ideally
> > happen:
> 
> Agree.
> 
> > 1) Test is moved out of the fast suite
> > 2) Test has its individual timeout sized appropriately so that it
> > never fails regardless of the environment
> > 3) Test is capped so that it doesn't grow with the number of cores
> > without limits
> 
> I'm for option 3. The case should be kept in fast suite. Time taken 
> should be capped.

More than 1 second is a bit slow.
Please make the test really faster.