[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t] kms_atomic_transition: Output more finegrained progress info to avoid CI watchdog timeout

[Imre Deak]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:43:38PM +0300, Petri Latvala wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:29:33PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote:
> > The CI software watchdog (owatch) will timeout if the test doesn't
> > output anything for a long time on standard out or error. At least the
> > plane-all-modeset-transition and plane-all-modeset-transition-fences
> > subtests run without any output longer than the watchdog timeout, so
> > output some more progress info.
> 
> No, owatch is wrapping piglit, and pings the watchdog if _piglit_
> prints anything. Which it does on start/exit of a test.

Yes, but the subtest itself takes more time than owatch's timeout,
during which there is no output. So owatch will trigger a reboot before
the subtest ends, even though it's making progress.

--Imre

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> Petri Latvala