This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests: mptcp: simult flows: mark 'unbalanced' tests as flaky to the 6.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: selftests-mptcp-simult-flows-mark-unbalanced-tests-a.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4f69529a85f657c84c6cee2098cd28b086ca9a6e Author: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri May 24 18:30:57 2024 +0200 selftests: mptcp: simult flows: mark 'unbalanced' tests as flaky [ Upstream commit cc73a6577ae64247898269d138dee6b73ff710cc ] These tests are flaky since their introduction. This might be less or not visible depending on the CI running the tests, especially if it is also busy doing other tasks in parallel. A first analysis shown that the transfer can be slowed down when there are some re-injections at the MPTCP level. Such re-injections can of course happen, and disturb the transfer, but it looks strange to have them in this lab. That could be caused by the kernel having access to less CPU cycles -- e.g. when other activities are executed in parallel -- or by a misinterpretation on the MPTCP packet scheduler side. While this is being investigated, the tests are marked as flaky not to create noises in other CIs. Fixes: 219d04992b68 ("mptcp: push pending frames when subflow has free space") Link: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/475 Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240524-upstream-net-20240524-selftests-mptcp-flaky-v1-2-a352362f3f8e@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/simult_flows.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/simult_flows.sh index 1b23662203881..dfdb7031c187a 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/simult_flows.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/simult_flows.sh @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ run_test() do_transfer $small $large $time lret=$? mptcp_lib_result_code "${lret}" "${msg}" - if [ $lret -ne 0 ]; then + if [ $lret -ne 0 ] && ! mptcp_lib_subtest_is_flaky; then ret=$lret [ $bail -eq 0 ] || exit $ret fi @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ run_test() do_transfer $large $small $time lret=$? mptcp_lib_result_code "${lret}" "${msg}" - if [ $lret -ne 0 ]; then + if [ $lret -ne 0 ] && ! mptcp_lib_subtest_is_flaky; then ret=$lret [ $bail -eq 0 ] || exit $ret fi @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ run_test 10 10 0 0 "balanced bwidth" run_test 10 10 1 25 "balanced bwidth with unbalanced delay" # we still need some additional infrastructure to pass the following test-cases -run_test 10 3 0 0 "unbalanced bwidth" +MPTCP_LIB_SUBTEST_FLAKY=1 run_test 10 3 0 0 "unbalanced bwidth" run_test 10 3 1 25 "unbalanced bwidth with unbalanced delay" run_test 10 3 25 1 "unbalanced bwidth with opposed, unbalanced delay"