[LTP] [PATCH 04/10] ioctl_sg01: Set unlimited max_runtime
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
Tue Aug 30 20:38:43 CEST 2022
Hi!
> >> Test setup can take very long time depending on the amount of free RAM.
> >> Set unlimited max_runtime to avoid timeout issues.
> >
> > I would rather go for large enough number e.g. 30 minutes than
> > unlimited as the unlimited runtime turns off the timeouts and such test
> > can run undefinitely.
>
> Even setting max_runtime is an ugly hack here because the test itself is
> nearly instant. The setup() function is what actually times out. But
> there's currently no way to change the default 30 second timeout
> allocated for setup() and cleanup(). It'd be much better if I could set
> that setup() has unlimited timeout and the test itself is limited to 5
> seconds.
I guess that we can add setup_max_runtime and cleanup_max_runtime
however I would still set the setup_max_runtime to a large but finite
value here.
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
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