On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 10:32:34PM -0400, Cleber Rosa wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David Gibson" <[email protected]> > > To: "Alex Bennée" <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected], "Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" > > <[email protected]>, "Kamil Rytarowski" > > <[email protected]>, "Hervé Poussineau" <[email protected]>, "Cleber > > Rosa" <[email protected]>, > > [email protected], "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 9:41:16 PM > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests/acceptance/ppc_prep_40p: Use cdn.netbsd.org > > hostname > > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:10:19PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: > > > > > > Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > > > Use NetBSD content delivery network to get faster downloads. > > > > > > Even with this patch I get failures on my big dev box: > > > > > > (48/67) > > > > > > tests/acceptance/ppc_prep_40p.py:IbmPrep40pMachine.test_openbios_and_netbsd: > > > INTERRUPTED: Failed to fetch NetBSD-7.1.2-prep.iso.\nRunner error > > > occurred: Timeout reached\nOriginal status: ERROR\n{'name': > > > > > > '48-tests/acceptance/ppc_prep_40p.py:IbmPrep40pMachine.test_openbios_and_netbsd', > > > 'logdir': '/home/alex/lsrc/qemu.git/builds/all/tests/results/jo... (60.31 > > > s) > > > > > > I think ultimately a whole ISO download is just too much for an > > > acceptance test. > > > > I tend to agree. Here in a network-remote part of the world, these > > always seem to cause timeouts and other problems, in a bunch of the > > testcases. > > > > Those are testing useful things though, so I'd really like to see the > > downloads split out into some sort of preparation step that can be > > done just once, rather than part of the test proper. > > We have added functionality in the latest Avocado that will let us > easily set a "cancel this test if the ISO has not being previously > downloaded", or "cancel if it fails to be downloaded during the > test".
That certainly sounds like an improvement. I still don't love the
idea that the test results will vary based on something outside of the
tested code, even if a cancel is definitely better than a fail.
> +Willian can explain how it works, and if found to be suitable, and work
> on a patch.
Ok. That would be good to know - will there be some command to run in
advance to attempt to download all the necessary images? Would that
run without a timeout - or at least a much longer timeout than the
testcase itself has.
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