Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] dts: add test case that utilizes offload to pmd_buffer_scatter

[Jeremy Spewock <jspewock@iol.unh.edu>]

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 12:33 PM Luca Vizzarro <Luca.Vizzarro@arm.com> wrote:
>
> While testing this patch against the Intel NICs we have, I've detected
> that upon port start and stopping two ICMPv6 packets are sent out. This
> has caused these packets to appear in the first capture, causing it to
> intermittently fail if they were the first packets to arrive or not.
> Sometimes the ICMPv6 packets would be the only ones to show in the
> captured packets. This problem is not strictly related to this patch but
> could be fixed if not too annoying.
>
> So far what appears to have fixed the issue on my side, was just add
> some wait between port setup and the sending of the packets.
> time.sleep(2) seems to have done the job. But it may not be an ideal
> solution.

Ack. Maybe something I could do here is update the verification step
to instead find any packet in the list that passed the test rather
than assuming there won't be interference.