[LTP] [RFC PATCH] starvation: set a baseline for maximum runtime

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> After thinking it over, I guess we'd better _only_ apply this method
> to some special slow tests (aka. more easily timeout tests). If we do
> the examination of those kernel options in the library for all, that
> maybe a burden to most quick tests, which always finish in a few
> seconds (far less than the default 30s).
> 
> Therefore, I came up with a new option for .max_runtime, which is
> TST_DYNAMICAL_RUNTIME. Similar to the TST_UNLIMITED_RUNTIME
> we ever use. Test by adding this .max_runtime = TST_DYNAIMCAL_RUNTIME
> that will try to find a proper timeout value in the running time for the
> test.

I was thinking to only multiply the max_runtime defined by the test in
the library. That way only slow tests that set the max_runtime would be
affected.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz