On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 09:37:33AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> gro.py runs its full set of cases three times over - against SW GRO,
> HW GRO and LRO. It's our test with the longest runtime. The 318 cases
> take 12m30s on mlx5 with a debug kernel.
> 
> Bumping the timeout for all tests feels wrong when we can so easily
> split the GRO test by execution mode. Shorter runtime also helps retry
> just the failing portion / mode (we retry failing tests to try to
> detect flakes vs real failures).
> 
> Move the main logic to gro_lib.py and add one program per mode -
> gro_sw.py, gro_hw.py and gro_lro.py, 102 cases each. Move PPPoE to
> a dedicated test. It has been tacked onto the tests in an ugly way,
> and it only runs against SW GRO anyway.
> 
> Note that unfortunately this will case a rename of all test cases.
> The mode moves from the case name to the test name
> 
>   gro.py test.sw_ipv4_data_same
> 
> becomes
> 
>   gro_sw.py test.ipv4_data_same
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
> ---
> We also saw 20min runs on gve, but those may have been errors.
> The GVE runner is very flaky and even when it runs it doesn't seem
> to execute the gro test. Perhaps because the test times out?
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/Makefile  |  9 ++-
>  tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/gro_hw.py | 14 ++++
>  .../drivers/net/{gro.py => gro_lib.py}        | 68 +++++++++----------
>  .../testing/selftests/drivers/net/gro_lro.py  | 15 ++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/gro_sw.py | 14 ++++
>  .../selftests/drivers/net/pppoe_gro.py        | 46 +++++++++++++
>  .../selftests/net/lib/ksft_setup_loopback.sh  |  2 +-
>  7 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/gro_hw.py
>  rename tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/{gro.py => gro_lib.py} (92%)
>  mode change 100755 => 100644
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/gro_lro.py
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/gro_sw.py
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/pppoe_gro.py
> 

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato <[email protected]>

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