Re: [PATCH net-next] selftests: drv-net: bump the timeout to 15min
Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:13:02 -0700 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. > 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. The gve runner takes 20min on this test. It's getting impractical. Let me send a series - this patch plus a patch to break gro up into subtests. -- pw-bot: cr