Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] iotests: fix 185

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 08.08.2017 um 17:10 hat Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy geschrieben:
> 08.08.2017 18:07, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 08/08/2017 04:04 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> > 
> > > > > > Throttling "guaranties" that there will not be more than one
> > > > > > request. But
> > > > > > what prevent less than one, i.e. zero, like in my reproduction?
> > > > > Yes, I understand. Can we somehow make sure that at least one iteration
> > > > > is made? I'd really like to keep the functional test for block job
> > > > > throttling. I suppose a simple 'sleep 0.1' would do the trick, though
> > > > > it's not very clean.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Kevin
> > > > 
> > > > I've started with 'sleep 0.5', now there are >100 successful
> > > > iterations... The other way is to check in test that there was 0 or 1
> > > > requests, but for this it looks better to rewrite it in python.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > is sleep for ms portable?
> > Sadly, sub-second sleep is a GNU coreutils feature; I suspect the BSD
> > machines may fail to parse it.  (Of course, we could do some sort of
> > 'sleep $SMALL', where $SMALL is 0.5 if sleep supports it, and 1 otherwise).
> > 
> sleep for 1 second may lead to more then one request done before qemu quite.

_supported_os Linux

So do we really care about portability? And are all the other test cases
working on the BSDs?

Kevin