Re: [PATCH 11/11] selftests: net/fcnal: Reduce client timeout

On 10/6/21 3:26 PM, Leonard Crestez wrote:

On 06.10.2021 18:01, David Ahern wrote:

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On 10/6/21 5:47 AM, Leonard Crestez wrote:

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Reduce default client timeout from 5 seconds to 500 miliseconds.
Can be overridden from environment by exporting NETTEST_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=5

Some tests need ICMP timeouts so pass an explicit -t5 for those.

Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <redacted>
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  tools/testing/selftests/net/fcnal-test.sh | 17 +++++++++++------
  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

The problem with blindly reducing the timeouts is running the script on
a loaded server. Some tests are expected to timeout while for tests a
timeout is a failure.

Keeping the default value "5" would be fine as long as it is possible to
override externally and get fast results on a mostly-idle machine.

5 is the default for nettest.c; the test script passes in -t1 for all tests.

Placing a default value in the environment which is overriden by certain
tests achieves that.

In theory it would also be possible for fcnal-test.sh to parse as
"--timeout" option and pass it into every single test but that solution
would cause much more code churn.

Having default values in environment variables that can still be
overridden by command-line arguments is a common pattern in many tools.
It also avoids having to pass-through every flag through every
intermediate wrapper.

I do not agree with env variables here.