On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Adhemerval Zanella wrote: > > While at it, may I propose another change on top of this? > > > > I've noticed the test case is rather slow, it certainly takes much more > > time than the average one, I've seen elapsed times of well over a minute > > on reasonably fast hardware and occasionally a timeout midway through even > > though the test case was otherwise progressing just fine. I think lock > > contention or unrelated system activity such as hardware interrupts (think > > a busy network!) may contribute to it for systems using LL/SC loops for > > atomicity. > > > > So I think the default timeout that's used for really quick tests should > > be extended a bit. I propose a factor of 2, just not to make it too > > excessive, at least for the beginning (maybe it'll have to be higher > > eventually). > > Do you mind if I incorporate this change on my patchset?
I missed your e-mail previously, sorry. Surely I don't! Thanks. Maciej
