[ovs-discuss] [openvswitch 2.10.0+2018.08.28+git.e0cea85314+ds2] testsuite: 975 2347 2482 2483 2633 failed

[Thomas Goirand]

On 09/04/2018 11:06 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 09:20:45AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> On 09/02/2018 03:12 AM, Justin Pettit wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sep 1, 2018, at 3:52 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 01:23:32PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sep 1, 2018, at 12:21 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The only one failure:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2633: ovn -- ACL rate-limited logging                 FAILED (ovn.at:6516)
>>>>>
>>>>> My guess if that this is meter-related. Can you send the ovs-vswitchd.log and testsuite.log so I can take a look?
>>>>
>>>> It probably hasn't changed from what he sent the first time around.
>>>
>>> Yes, "testsuite.log" was in the original message, so I don't need that.  Thomas, can you send me "ovs-vswitchd.log" and "ovn-controller.log"?  Does it consistently fail for you?
>>>
>>> --Justin
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I blacklisted the above test, I uploaded to Sid, and now there's a
>> number of failures on non-intel arch:
>>
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=openvswitch
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=openvswitch
>>
>> Ben, Justin, can you help me fix all of this?
> 
> Thanks for passing that along.
> 
> A lot of these failures seem to involve unexpected timeouts.  I wonder
> whether the buildds are so overloaded that some of the 10-second
> timeouts in the testsuite are just too short.  Usually, this is a
> generous timeout interval.
> 
> I sent a patch that should help to debug the problem by doing more logging:
>         https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/966087/
> 
> It won't help with tests that fully succeed, because the logs by default
> are discarded, but for tests that have a sequence of waits, in which one
> eventually fails, it will allow us to see how long the successful waits
> took.
> 
> Any chance you could apply that patch and try another build?  Feel free
> to wait for review, if you prefer.
> 

Hi,

I've just uploaded OVS with that patch. Thanks, I think it's a very good
idea. And indeed, it looks like failing arch are the slower ones.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)