On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM Patrick Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > When running our existing DTS testsuites on a new > NIC we observed packets would not transmit from > the traffic generator to the system under test > even after DPDK testpmd and the NIC under test > had indicated readiness. After investigation, we > determined that the existing readiness check in DTS > for testpmd start (checking that port is started) > is insufficient, because on some systems the link > will remain down for some measurable time, creating > a race condition between the testpmd port's link > coming up and the DTS execution reaching the packet > transmission step. This change will ensure that > testpmd start will block until the port is reporting > that its link is up. In addition, the interval in > between checking the link state has been reduced in > order to speed up the execution. > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Robb <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Patrick Robb <[email protected]>
<snip> > if "Link status: up" in port_info: > break > - time.sleep(0.5) > + time.sleep(0.25) What's the rationale for changing this, just wondering? Reviewed-by: Dean Marx <[email protected]>
