[LTP] [REGRESSION] lkft ltp for cea142b

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Mon Sep 19 10:28:06 CEST 2022


Hi!
> > tst_pollute_memory() consume time is proportional to the amount of
> > free RAM, it is hard to find one fixed value of max_runtime to fit all test
> > platforms.
> >
> > From my experience, if you limited this test only run with small
> > machine (e.g. RAM <= 32G), that performs well with whatever
> > bare metal or VM, no timeout ever.
> >
> 
> Btw, we did that by setting a test filter before LTP running, also we could
> add a field .max_mem_avail to tst_test struct for achieving that, but not
> sure if it's worth doing that at this moment.

The proper solution will be adding a separate timeouts for setup/cleanup
and limiting the setup runtime to something sensible, but that is
something for the next development cycle.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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