APPLIED: [X][B][SRU][PATCH 0/2] selftests/net: make psock_fanout become more reliable

[Khaled Elmously]

On 2020-01-16 12:36:28 , Po-Hsu Lin wrote:
> == SRU Justification ==
> The psock_fanout test is not very stable, stress tests shows a high
> fail rate here:
>   * X - 44 failures out of 100, with 4.4 kernel on a KVM node
>   * B - 33 failures out of 100, with 4.15 kernel on a KVM node
> 
> This is because of the unrelated background traffic which should be
> filtered out.
> 
> Also, the error message, "ERROR: incorrect queue lengths", is a bit
> misleading. You can see this even the test has passed, it's not the
> real cause of the failure. This message has been changed to "warning:
> incorrect queue lengths" later.
> 
> == Fix ==
> 1. 2e7a7217 (selftests/net: cleanup unused parameter in psock_fanout)
> 2. cc30c93f (selftests/net: ignore background traffic in psock_fanout)
> 
> The first patch has already landed in Bionic, and it can be
> cherry-picked into Xenial.
> 
> The second one needs to be backported to Xenial, but it can be applied
> to Bionic with git am -C2.
> 
> == Test ==
> Patch tested directly on 4.4 / 4.15 KVM nodes.
> 
> Stress tested 100 times with:
>     i=0
>     for idx in $(seq 1 100)
>     do
>         sudo ./psock_fanout &> /dev/null
>         [ $? != 0 ] && i=$((i+1))
>     done
>     echo $i
> 
> All tests have passed without any failure.
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low, change limited to testing tools, not affecting actual kernel
> functionality.
> 
> Mike Maloney (1):
>   selftests/net: cleanup unused parameter in psock_fanout
> 
> Willem de Bruijn (1):
>   selftests/net: ignore background traffic in psock_fanout
> 
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/in_netns.sh       | 23 ++++++++++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/psock_fanout.c    | 51 ++++++++++++++++++---------
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/run_afpackettests |  4 +--
>  3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/net/in_netns.sh
> 
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