[PATCH mptcp-net v3 2/4] selftests: mptcp: simult flows: mark 'unbalanced' tests as flaky

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) posted 4 patches 4 months, 3 weeks ago
[PATCH mptcp-net v3 2/4] selftests: mptcp: simult flows: mark 'unbalanced' tests as flaky
Posted by Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) 4 months, 3 weeks ago
These tests are flaky since their introduction. This might be less or
not visible depending on the CI running the tests, especially if it is
also busy doing other tasks in parallel.

A first analysis shown that the transfer can be slowed down when there
are some re-injections at the MPTCP level. Such re-injections can of
course happen, and disturb the transfer, but it looks strange to have
them in this lab. That could be caused by the kernel having access to
less CPU cycles -- e.g. when other activities are executed in parallel
-- or by a misinterpretation on the MPTCP packet scheduler side.

While this is being investigated, the tests are marked as flaky not to
create noises in other CIs.

Link: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/475
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/simult_flows.sh | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/simult_flows.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/simult_flows.sh
index d0b39c2e38a3..b42d767246cc 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/simult_flows.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/simult_flows.sh
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ run_test()
 	do_transfer $small $large $time
 	lret=$?
 	mptcp_lib_result_code "${lret}" "${msg}"
-	if [ $lret -ne 0 ]; then
+	if [ $lret -ne 0 ] && ! mptcp_lib_subtest_is_flaky; then
 		ret=$lret
 		[ $bail -eq 0 ] || exit $ret
 	fi
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ run_test()
 	do_transfer $large $small $time
 	lret=$?
 	mptcp_lib_result_code "${lret}" "${msg}"
-	if [ $lret -ne 0 ]; then
+	if [ $lret -ne 0 ] && ! mptcp_lib_subtest_is_flaky; then
 		ret=$lret
 		[ $bail -eq 0 ] || exit $ret
 	fi
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ run_test 10 10 0 0 "balanced bwidth"
 run_test 10 10 1 25 "balanced bwidth with unbalanced delay"
 
 # we still need some additional infrastructure to pass the following test-cases
-run_test 15 5 0 0 "unbalanced bwidth"
+MPTCP_LIB_SUBTEST_FLAKY=1 run_test 15 5 0 0 "unbalanced bwidth"
 run_test 15 5 1 25 "unbalanced bwidth with unbalanced delay"
 run_test 15 5 25 1 "unbalanced bwidth with opposed, unbalanced delay"
 

-- 
2.43.0