In some bad situation, fio needs taking over several hours to complete
random read operations with specified size. The test may skip out in such
cases and does not block other cases run.

With this patch, the case will be ended within $TIMEOUT(if set) or 900s.
block/005 => nvme1n1 (switch schedulers while doing IO)      [failed]
    runtime      ...  1800.477s
    read iops    ...
    --- tests/block/005.out     2019-03-31 14:29:39.905449312 +0000
    +++ /home/ec2-user/blktests/results/nvme1n1/block/005.out.bad       
2019-05-07 04:10:16.026681842 +0000
    @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
     Running block/005
    +fio did not finish after 900 seconds which probably caused by
    +lower disk performance
     Test complete

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang <[email protected]>
---
 tests/block/005 | 9 +++++++++
 tests/block/008 | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/block/005 b/tests/block/005
index 8ab6791..de8ddaf 100755
--- a/tests/block/005
+++ b/tests/block/005
@@ -31,10 +31,19 @@ test_device() {
        _run_fio_rand_io --filename="$TEST_DEV" --size="$size" &
 
        # while job is running, switch between schedulers
+       # fio test may take too long time to complete read/write in special 
size in some bad 
+       # situations. Set a timeout here which does not block overall test.
+       start_time=$(date +%s)
+       timeout=${TIMEOUT:=900}
        while kill -0 $! 2>/dev/null; do
                idx=$((RANDOM % ${#scheds[@]}))
                _test_dev_queue_set scheduler "${scheds[$idx]}"
                sleep .2
+               end_time=$(date +%s)
+               if (( end_time - start_time > timeout )); then
+                       echo "fio did not finish after $timeout seconds!"
+                       break
+               fi
        done
 
        FIO_PERF_FIELDS=("read iops")
diff --git a/tests/block/008 b/tests/block/008
index 4a88056..d215136 100755
--- a/tests/block/008
+++ b/tests/block/008
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ test_device() {
        done
 
        # while job is running, hotplug CPUs
+       # fio test may take too long time to complete read/write in special 
size in some bad 
+       # situations. Set a timeout here which does not block overall test.
+       start_time=$(date +%s)
+       timeout=${TIMEOUT:=900}
        while sleep .2; kill -0 $! 2> /dev/null; do
                if (( offlining && ${#offline_cpus[@]} == max_offline )); then
                        offlining=0
@@ -65,6 +69,11 @@ test_device() {
                        unset offline_cpus["$idx"]
                        offline_cpus=("${offline_cpus[@]}")
                fi
+               end_time=$(date +%s)
+               if (( end_time - start_time > timeout )); then
+                       echo "fio did not finish after $timeout seconds!"
+                       break
+               fi
        done
 
        FIO_PERF_FIELDS=("read iops")
-- 
2.17.2

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