Re: [PATCH 03/10] tests/avocado/intel_iommu.py: increase timeout

[Akihiko Odaki]

On 2023/12/12 2:01, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Based on many runs, the average run time for these 4 tests is around
> > 250 seconds, with 320 seconds being the ceiling.  In any way, the
> > default 120 seconds timeout is inappropriate in my experience.
>
> I would rather see these tests updated to fix:
>
>   - Don't use such an old Fedora 31 image
>   - Avoid updating image packages (when will RH stop serving them?)
>   - The "test" is a fairly basic check of dmesg/sysfs output
>
> I think building a buildroot image with the tools pre-installed (with
> perhaps more testing) would be a better use of our limited test time.

That's what tests/avocado/netdev-ethtool.py does, but I don't like it 
much because building a buildroot image takes long and results in a 
somewhat big binary blob.

I rather prefer to have some script that runs mkosi[1] to make an image; 
it downloads packages from distributor so it will take much less than 
using buildroot. The CI system can run the script and cache the image.

[1] https://github.com/systemd/mkosi