On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 01:37:53PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > High speed systems are often eventually consistent. Either because > stats are gathered from HW periodically by the FW, or RCU grace period > has to expire, or workqueue has to run, etc. etc. I know it's annoying > for writing tests but it's manageable. Out of curiosity, what does a test writer need to do to get out of the "eventual consistency" conundrum in a portable way and answer the question "has my packet not been received by the interface or has the counter just not updated"?