On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM Xavier Simonart via dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> When starting multiple tcpdumps on same node, it is faster to use
> the new M_START_TCPDUMPS macro instead of multiple M_START_TCPDUMP.
> The former usually waits only one second for all tcpdump to be
> listening while the latter waits one second for each tcpdump to be
> listening.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <[email protected]>
> ---
>  tests/multinode-macros.at | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tests/multinode-macros.at b/tests/multinode-macros.at
> index 06efee69b..ade4d167c 100644
> --- a/tests/multinode-macros.at
> +++ b/tests/multinode-macros.at
> @@ -41,6 +41,30 @@ m4_define([M_START_TCPDUMP],
>      ]
>  )
>
> +m4_define([M_START_TCPDUMPS_RECURSIVE_], [
> +     m4_if(m4_eval($# >= 3), [1], [dnl
> +        names="$names $3"
> +        echo "Running podman exec $1 tcpdump -l $2 >$3.tcpdump
> 2>$3.stderr"
> +        podman exec $1 tcpdump -l $2 >$3.tcpdump 2>$3.stderr &
> +        echo "podman exec $1 ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep tcpdump &&
> podman exec $1 killall tcpdump" >> cleanup
> +        M_START_TCPDUMPS_RECURSIVE_(m4_shift(m4_shift(m4_shift($@))))
> +        ])
> +    ]
> +)
> +
> +# M_START_TCPDUMPS([fake node1], [params1], [name1],
> +#                  [fake node2], [params2], [name2], ...)
> +# Start multiple tcpdump. Useful to speed up when many tcpdump
> +# must be started as waiting for "listening" takes usually 1 second.
> +m4_define([M_START_TCPDUMPS],
> +    [
> +     names=""
> +     M_START_TCPDUMPS_RECURSIVE_($@)
> +     for name in $names; do
> +         OVS_WAIT_UNTIL([grep -q "listening" ${name}.stderr])
> +     done
> +    ]
> +)
>
>  # M_FORMAT_CT([ip-addr])
>  #
> --
> 2.47.1
>
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Thank you Xavier,
applied to main and 26.03.

Regards,
Ales
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