Re: [PATCH 2/9] tests/avocado: mark boot_linux.py long runtime instead of flaky

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 1/7/24 18:01, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The ppc64 and s390x tests were first marked skipIf GITLAB_CI by commit
> c0c8687ef0f ("tests/avocado: disable BootLinuxPPC64 test in CI"), and
> commit 0f26d94ec9e ("tests/acceptance: skip s390x_ccw_vrtio_tcg on
> GitLab") due to being very heavy-weight for gitlab CI.
>
> Commit 9b45cc99318 ("docs/devel: rationalise unstable gitlab tests under
> FLAKY_TESTS") changed this to being flaky but it isn't really, it just
> had a long runtime.

I agree. The same comment applies to the aspeed tests.
 
> So introduce a new AVOCADO_ALLOW_LONG_RUNTIME variable and make these
> tests require it. Re-testing the s390x and ppc64 tests on gitlab shows
> about 100-150s runtime each, which is similar to the x86-64 tests.
> Since these are among the longest running avocado tests, make x86-64
> require long runtime as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
>
> ---
>   docs/devel/testing.rst      | 8 ++++++++
>   tests/avocado/boot_linux.py | 8 ++------
>   2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
> index bd132306c1..3a9c1327be 100644
> --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
> +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
> @@ -1346,6 +1346,14 @@ the environment.
>   The definition of *large* is a bit arbitrary here, but it usually means an
>   asset which occupies at least 1GB of size on disk when uncompressed.
>   
> +AVOCADO_ALLOW_LONG_RUNTIME
> +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> +Tests which have a long runtime will not be run unless that
> +``AVOCADO_ALLOW_LONG_RUNTIME=1`` is exported on the environment.
> +
> +The definition of *long* is a bit arbitrary here, but it usually means a
> +test which takes more than 100 seconds to complete.
Defining a limit is the difficult part. The Aspeed SDK tests have been
tagged flaky for CI even though they run in less than 50s. Anyhow,

Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>

Thanks,

C.




> +
>   AVOCADO_ALLOW_UNTRUSTED_CODE
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   There are tests which will boot a kernel image or firmware that can be
> diff --git a/tests/avocado/boot_linux.py b/tests/avocado/boot_linux.py
> index 7c4769904e..6df0fc0489 100644
> --- a/tests/avocado/boot_linux.py
> +++ b/tests/avocado/boot_linux.py
> @@ -93,13 +93,11 @@ class BootLinuxPPC64(LinuxTest):
>   
>       timeout = 360
>   
> -    @skipUnless(os.getenv('QEMU_TEST_FLAKY_TESTS'), 'Test is unstable on GitLab')
> -
> +    @skipUnless(os.getenv('AVOCADO_ALLOW_LONG_RUNTIME'), 'runtime limited')
>       def test_pseries_tcg(self):
>           """
>           :avocado: tags=machine:pseries
>           :avocado: tags=accel:tcg
> -        :avocado: tags=flaky
>           """
>           self.require_accelerator("tcg")
>           self.vm.add_args("-accel", "tcg")
> @@ -113,13 +111,11 @@ class BootLinuxS390X(LinuxTest):
>   
>       timeout = 240
>   
> -    @skipUnless(os.getenv('QEMU_TEST_FLAKY_TESTS'), 'Test is unstable on GitLab')
> -
> +    @skipUnless(os.getenv('AVOCADO_ALLOW_LONG_RUNTIME'), 'runtime limited')
>       def test_s390_ccw_virtio_tcg(self):
>           """
>           :avocado: tags=machine:s390-ccw-virtio
>           :avocado: tags=accel:tcg
> -        :avocado: tags=flaky
>           """
>           self.require_accelerator("tcg")
>           self.vm.add_args("-accel", "tcg")