[LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/fsync02: restore runtime to 5m

[Petr Vorel]

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:50 PM Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:

> > Hi Jan, Cyril,

> > > Hi!
> > > > Test allows up to 240 seconds for PASS result (depending if its VM or not),
> > > > but on slower systems library now kills it after a minute. Restore
> > > > runtime to 5 minutes.

> > > Looking at the test itself it's a bit messed up too.

> > > The test uses rand(); to initialize the buffer size but without
> > > initializing the seed which is not random at all. It also uses number of
> > > available disk blocks as a upper limit, which makes the test runtime
> > > completely unpredictable.

> > > I guess that it would make sense to randomize the buffer sizes but in
> > > certain bounds to make the test more predictable and print the numbers
> > > we are going to use too. Maybe run the test with a few different sizes
> > > and time limits. Maybe the size of the buffers can be function of the
> > > test runtime.

> > > All in all I think that we should really rething what we are doing here
> > > since the current code does not make that much sense to me.

> > Jan, do you plan to do anything with the test before the release?

> I put it at todo list, but haven't dived into it yet. For release, I'd
> go with timelimit
> extension as that can't cause any regressions.

Make sense to me.
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

Kind regards,
Petr

> > Kind regards,
> > Petr

> > > > Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  testcases/kernel/syscalls/fsync/fsync02.c | 3 ++-
> > > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

> > > > diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fsync/fsync02.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fsync/fsync02.c
> > > > index e13ba89f1b63..55c7a71c1d65 100644
> > > > --- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fsync/fsync02.c
> > > > +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fsync/fsync02.c
> > > > @@ -114,5 +114,6 @@ static struct tst_test test = {
> > > >     .test_all = run,
> > > >     .setup = setup,
> > > >     .cleanup = cleanup,
> > > > -   .needs_tmpdir = 1
> > > > +   .needs_tmpdir = 1,
> > > > +   .max_runtime = 300,
> > > >  };