Re: kern/54687: ATF tests time out since kern_lwp.c 1.206

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 09:40:01AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/54687; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
> To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
> Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, joerg%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: kern/54687: ATF tests time out since kern_lwp.c 1.206
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:38:26 +0100
> 
>  On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:41:01PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > (1) I can run the ipsec tests in a fresh VM in isolation and they finish
>  > within 30s. That alone should be a good indicator that the problem with
>  > those tests is not actually the commit here.
>  
>  The question is whether they used to terminate noticably faster before
>  the change.

They hang if any of the rump processes terminates unexpectedly. It often
drags following test cases down too. In short, if ATF as a whole would
properly isolate test cases, there would have been no timeouts. This is
a persistent issue.

Joerg