[ovirt-devel] [VDSM] Flaky network tests

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 09:09:09AM +0200, Barak Korren wrote:
> On 28 November 2016 at 09:03, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Adding Petr; I assume he won't have plenty of time to fix the issue, we
> > should mark it as broken. Any test with a timeout is broken-on-ci by
> > design.
> >
> What exactly is timing out? Can we help to fix that? Is it waiting
> forever for something that will never "show up" because it is outside
> the mock env (And could be bind-mounted into it)?

I did not research this deeply, but in that test we create network
interfaces, and wait for the ensuing netlink events. If they don't
arrive within 2 seconds, we declare failure.

The failure we see is what I'd expect from a very slow slave.