Am 12.09.2017 um 10:52 schrieb Stefan Weil: > Am 11.09.2017 um 20:24 schrieb Peter Maydell: >> I've also turned on a tci compile check on my pre-merge tests. >> (It doesn't pass "make check" for me, though...) thanks -- PMM > > "make check-qtest-ppc64" fails for me, too. > > Thomas, this seems to be again the well known timing problem > in tests/prom-env-test.c. The time for the test had been > changedfrom 30 s to 10 s to 120 s in the past.
... changed from 10 s to 30 s to 120 s ... > For TCI, even that latest value is not sufficient when > testing with pseries. Of course that also depends on other > parameters (speed of test machine, compiler flags). > > In my test pseries took nearly 5 minutes, so the test passes > when the loop upper limit is increased to 30000. Timing data for prom-env-test with TCI on another test machine: mac99: 78 s g3beige: 74 s pseries: 477 s > > Is there a better way to handle this test? Why does pseries > still need much more time than the other machines > (not only with TCI)? > > Regards, > Stefan
