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
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.
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