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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:13:16 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> ish.
> > >>
> > >> Due to a relative bigger RTE_MAX_LCORE value on ARM, the unit test case
> > >> would take a longer time to finish iterations.
> > >> In one of my run, the case took about 100s.  
> > > 
> > > Right, but this test is part of the "fast suite", and more than a
> > > minute is not exactly fast. So one of the following should ideally
> > > happen:  
> > 
> > Agree.
> >   
> > > 1) Test is moved out of the fast suite
> > > 2) Test has its individual timeout sized appropriately so that it
> > > never fails regardless of the environment
> > > 3) Test is capped so that it doesn't grow with the number of cores
> > > without limits  
> > 
> > I'm for option 3. The case should be kept in fast suite. Time taken 
> > should be capped.  
> 
> More than 1 second is a bit slow.
> Please make the test really faster.

What is the test trying to exercise? Can it be done in another way?