Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] tests: enable meson test timeouts to improve debuggability

[Thomas Huth]

On 23/01/2024 17.50, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 15.12.2023 10:03, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > This is a respin of Daniel's series that re-enables the meson test
> > runner timeouts. To make sure that we do not get into trouble on
> > older systems, I ran all the tests with "make check SPEED=slow -j32"
> > on my laptop that has only 16 SMT threads, so each test was running
> > quite a bit slower than with a normal "-j$(nproc)" run. I think
> > that these timeouts should now work in most cases - if not, we still
> > can adjust them easily later.
>
> I'm picking this up for stable branches too, since there we have the same
> problems in CI environment. In particular, bios-tables-test almost always
> times out, even hitting retry doesn't help.  Let's see how it goes..

Uh, wait, that does not make too much sense ... if bios-tables-test already 
times out *without* the additional meson-based timeouts, then adding the 
meson timeouts won't help. bios-tables-test uses the manually coded timeout 
from boot_sector_test() that is currently set to 600 seconds. If you hit 
that timeout, that likely means that something is really broken in your 
branch - or is it sometimes still succeeding?

 Thomas