Re: [PATCH net-next] selftests: drv-net: bump the timeout to 15min

On 12/08/2026 20:13, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> The GRO test takes extra time on NICs which support HW-GRO and LRO
> (as it also runs the test cases against the NIC implementation).
> gro.py takes 6min on bnxt and 10min on mlx5 with debug kernel builds.

10m works for xdp.py but it seems that it isn't enough for gro.py :(

    # ok 265 gro.test.lro_ipip_ip_ecn
    not ok 1 selftests: drivers/net: gro.py # exit=130
    # Totals: pass:0 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0

    NIPA RUNNER TIMEOUT 600 sec (graceful stop)

https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/logs/hwksft/CX7-dbg/results/776322/test-outputs/0-gro-py/stdout

> The delta between drivers is to some extent due to their defaults
> (mlx5 sillily defaults to queue-per-thread, while bnxt follows
> netif_get_num_default_rss_queues()).
> 
> At the end of the day the defaults don't matter much - on larger
> machines all drivers will create more queues. We should bump
> the timeout. Let's give ourselves a 50% margin over mlx5's needs
> and set the timeout to 15min.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
> ---
> CC: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/settings | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/settings b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/settings
> index eef533824a3c..e2206265f67c 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/settings
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/settings
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -timeout=360
> +timeout=900