Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: dsa: add Arrow SpeedChips XRS700x driver

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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"?



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