Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tests/boot-serial-test: Bump timeout to 6 minutes

[Thomas Huth]

On 2018-08-18 12:10, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 August 2018 at 10:07, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 6 minutes is really a lot already. I guess most users will hit CTRL-C
>> before waiting so long if there is a realy problem here ... If the
>> current tests just takes a little bit more than 1 minute on the Sparc
>> machine, maybe 2 or 3 minutes would sufficient, too?
> 
> Or maybe not. I don't like tests that run close to their timeout
> limits, because that tends to mean that my automated test runs
> are flaky when the machine happens to be heavily loaded when
> a test is running. I think the purpose of a timeout is to prevent
> the test run hanging indefinitely; as you say, console users can
> hit ctrl-c if they get bored anyway.

... or maybe somebody tries to run TCI on a Sparc host one day ... ok,
you've convinced me, let's go with the 360 seconds:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

Paolo, could you please queue up this patch (since I don't have anything
else pending for assembling a PULL request)?

 Thomas