[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovn.at: Skip ACL rate-limiting test on slow/overloaded systems.

[Justin Pettit]

In ACL rate-limiting test, we send three sets of 100 packets.  One of
the sets drops packets at a rate of 10 per second, one at a rate of 5
per second, and one not at all.  On my setup, it takes roughly 0.67
seconds to send those 300 packets, but we have reports of it taking over
15 seconds on others.  The test was intended to allow some flexibility
in run-time, but it's very difficult to design a mechanism that can all
possibilities.

To prevent false test failures, this patch changes the test to check
the duration count of the meter, and if it's greater than nine seconds,
just skip the test.

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>
Reported-by: Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org>
---
 tests/ovn.at | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/ovn.at b/tests/ovn.at
index e10a7f9bab59..1fe4a4d4bf1c 100644
--- a/tests/ovn.at
+++ b/tests/ovn.at
@@ -6500,15 +6500,23 @@ for i in `seq 1 100`; do
     ovs-appctl netdev-dummy/receive lp1 'in_port(1),eth(src=f0:00:00:00:00:01,dst=f0:00:00:00:00:02),eth_type(0x0800),ipv4(src=192.168.1.2,dst=192.168.1.3,proto=6,tos=0,ttl=64,frag=no),tcp(src=7777,dst=82)'
 done
 
+# The rate at which packets are sent is highly system-dependent, so we
+# can't count on precise drop counts.  To work around that, we just
+# check that exactly 100 "http-acl3" actions were logged and that there
+# were more "http-acl1" actions than "http-acl2" ones.
+OVS_WAIT_UNTIL([ test 100 = $(grep -c 'http-acl3' hv/ovn-controller.log) ])
+
+# On particularly slow or overloaded systems, the transmission rate may
+# be lower than the configured meter rate.  To prevent false test
+# failures, we check the duration count of the meter, and if it's
+# greater than nine seconds, just skip the test.
+d_secs=$(as hv ovs-ofctl -O OpenFlow13 meter-stats br-int | grep "meter:1" | sed 's/.* duration:\([[0-9]]\{1,\}\)\.[[0-9]]\+s .*/\1/')
+AT_SKIP_IF([test $d_secs -gt 9])
+
 # Print some information that may help debugging.
 as hv ovs-appctl -t ovn-controller meter-table-list
 as hv ovs-ofctl -O OpenFlow13 meter-stats br-int
 
-# The userspace meter implementation doesn't precisely enforce counts,
-# so we just check that exactly 100 "http-acl3" actions were logged and
-# that there were more "http-acl1" actions than "http-acl2" ones.
-OVS_WAIT_UNTIL([ test 100 = $(grep -c 'http-acl3' hv/ovn-controller.log) ])
-
 n_acl1=$(grep -c 'http-acl1' hv/ovn-controller.log)
 n_acl2=$(grep -c 'http-acl2' hv/ovn-controller.log)
 n_acl3=$(grep -c 'http-acl3' hv/ovn-controller.log)
-- 
2.17.1