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

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

The following reply was made to PR kern/54687; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: joerg%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/54687: ATF tests time out since kern_lwp.c 1.206
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:04:37 +0100

 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