Hello! > While at it, may I propose another change on top of this? > > I've noticed the test case is rather slow, it certainly takes much more > time than the average one, I've seen elapsed times of well over a minute > on reasonably fast hardware and occasionally a timeout midway through even > though the test case was otherwise progressing just fine. I think lock > contention or unrelated system activity such as hardware interrupts (think > a busy network!) may contribute to it for systems using LL/SC loops for > atomicity. > > So I think the default timeout that's used for really quick tests should > be extended a bit. I propose a factor of 2, just not to make it too > excessive, at least for the beginning (maybe it'll have to be higher > eventually).
Or you can just lower the iteration count as I have to do for alpha. Uros.