On 2022-10-05 21:14, David Marchand wrote: > Hello, > > The service_autotest unit test has been failing randomly. > This is not something new. > We have been fixing this unit test and the service code, here and there. > For some time we were "fine": the failures were rare. > > But recenly (for the last two weeks at least), it started failing more > frequently in UNH lab. > > The symptoms are linked to places where the unit test code is "waiting > for some time": > > - service_lcore_attr_get: > + TestCase [ 5] : service_lcore_attr_get failed > EAL: Test assert service_lcore_attr_get line 422 failed: Service lcore > not stopped after waiting. > > > - service_may_be_active: > + TestCase [15] : service_may_be_active failed > ... > EAL: Test assert service_may_be_active line 960 failed: Error: Service > not stopped after 100ms > > Ideas? > > > Thanks.
Do you run the test suite in a controlled environment? I.e., one where you can trust that the lcore threads aren't interrupted for long periods of time. 100 ms is not a long time if a SCHED_OTHER lcore thread competes for the CPU with other threads.
