Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Cleber Rosa <crosa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Based on many runs, the average run time for these 4 tests is around >> 250 seconds, with 320 seconds being the ceiling. In any way, the >> default 120 seconds timeout is inappropriate in my experience. > > I would rather see these tests updated to fix: > > - Don't use such an old Fedora 31 image I remember proposing a bump in Fedora version used by default in avocado_qemu.LinuxTest (which would propagate to tests such as boot_linux.py and others), but that was not well accepted. I can definitely work on such a version bump again. > - Avoid updating image packages (when will RH stop serving them?) IIUC the only reason for updating the packages is to test the network from the guest, and could/should be done another way. Eric, could you confirm this? > - The "test" is a fairly basic check of dmesg/sysfs output Maybe the network is also an implicit check here. Let's see what Eric has to say. > > I think building a buildroot image with the tools pre-installed (with > perhaps more testing) would be a better use of our limited test time. > > FWIW the runtime on my machine is: > > ➜ env QEMU_TEST_FLAKY_TESTS=1 ./pyvenv/bin/avocado run ./tests/avocado/intel_iommu.py > JOB ID : 5c582ccf274f3aee279c2208f969a7af8ceb9943 > JOB LOG : /home/alex/avocado/job-results/job-2023-12-11T16.53-5c582cc/job.log > (1/4) ./tests/avocado/intel_iommu.py:IntelIOMMU.test_intel_iommu: PASS (44.21 s) > (2/4) ./tests/avocado/intel_iommu.py:IntelIOMMU.test_intel_iommu_strict: PASS (78.60 s) > (3/4) ./tests/avocado/intel_iommu.py:IntelIOMMU.test_intel_iommu_strict_cm: PASS (65.57 s) > (4/4) ./tests/avocado/intel_iommu.py:IntelIOMMU.test_intel_iommu_pt: PASS (66.63 s) > RESULTS : PASS 4 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | CANCEL 0 > JOB TIME : 255.43 s > Yes, I've also seen similar runtimes in other environments... so it looks like it depends a lot on the "dnf -y install numactl-devel". If that can be removed, the tests would have much more predictable runtimes.