[LTP] [PATCH 2/2] pty04: Retry reads when short

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Tue May 12 17:49:35 CEST 2020


Hi Richard,

> Even though reads are blocking and packets are flipped into the netdevice
> buffer whole, it seems read may return before a full packet is read into user
> land. Retrying read should prevent timeouts and read failures on some
> machines.

> Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
> Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
> Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

Thanks for taking care of this.
It's still possible to reproduce timeout just with higher -i (-i10),
but it's an improvement.

Kind regards,
Petr


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