[LTP] [PATCH 1/2] lib: multiply the timeout if detect slow kconfigsD

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> I did a quick grep that some ltp-aiodio tests set it to 1800 sec, which
> only 8/91 occupation in the LTP testcases/, I'm not sure if it's worth
> adding a new field for those few stress tests.
> 
> And with the previous method, the multiple 4 max_runtime for 1800s
> is 2hours per test up limit, I can't imagine how long we will get eventually
> in the whole test time.
> 
> Maybe another way is to create a separate function in a header
> like aio_common.h (or in high-level dir) for handling that significantly
> larger runtime tests.
> 
> BTW, we have TST_UNLIMITED_RUNTIME choice or, invoke
> tst_set_max_runtime() in somehow.

I stil think that misusing max_runtime, which is supposed to be upper
bound for the actual test runtime was a mistake.

Maybe we should have called the max_runtime a timeout and add runtime
for tests that needs it. That way we would have timeout compromising of
two parts, one would be the 30s that is used for all tests and second
part from the tst_test structure. And then the sum of these two would be
multiplied by the timeout multipliers. Then we would have a runtime,
which would be used only by tests that call tst_remaining_runtime().

The overall test timeout would be then:

(default_30s_timeout + tst_test->timeout) * TIMEOUT_MUL + tst_test->runtime * RUNTIME_MUL

What do you think?

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz