[LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/setrlimit06: lower RLIMIT_CPU parameters

[Jan Stancek]

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 6:52 PM Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 8:47 PM Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Lower the parameters so that test completes faster where possible.
> > > >
> > > > This also increases alarm timer slightly, which in combination with
> > > > lower RLIMIT_CPU aims to avoid false positives in environments with
> > > > high steal time, where it can take multiple of wall clock seconds
> > > > to spend single second on a cpu.
> > > >
> > >
> > > This patch could reduce the test failure possibility, but I'm afraid it
> > > can't fix the problem radically, because with `stress -c 20' to overload
> > an
> > > s390x system(2cpus) in the background then setrlimit06(patched) still
> > > easily gets failed:
> > >     setrlimit06.c:98: FAIL: Got only SIGXCPU after reaching both limit
> > >
> > > Another way I can think of is to raise the priority before its running,
> > not
> > > sure if that will disturb the original test but from my test, it always
> > > gets a pass even with too much overload.
> >
> > Is this in addition to my patch? Because on its own I don't see how this
> > will help when load is coming from different guests.
> >
> 
> Yes, this is only solving for itself loads. Besides the high steal time,
> that's another reason I guess it causes the same failure, so do you think
> it makes sense to merge two methods together?

For now I'd go with just original patch. Until there is parallel test execution,
there shouldn't be any local load during this test.