Hi ----- Original Message ----- > On 9 November 2015 at 15:09, Marc-André Lureau <mlur...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> On 9 November 2015 at 12:51, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > >> wrote: > >> Marc-André, can you look into why the ivshmem tests might be > >> intermittently > >> failing like this, please? > > > > Is this with an slow or emulated host? It could be that the 5s timeout > > is not enough? > > This is with the 32-bit build on a 64-bit ARM server box. So it's > not the fastest machine in the world, but it's not bad either. > It will be using TCG, obviously. > > A test which takes 5 seconds to run isn't ideal from a "keep > the make-check time down" perspective either.
I can imagine a test starting a server thread and 2 qemu instances would take more than 5s on such configuration then. Could you try timing the test a few times to confirm this? If it's too long, I suggest we move it to g_test_slow(), and perhaps get rid of the timer. thanks
