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

[Daniel Vetter]

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.

tbh this sounds like owatch being dense and it shouldn't try to reboot
this quickly. What's the current owatch timeout?

Aside: What exactly does owatch give us? I thought jenkins also watches
machines and reboots them using the ac switch ... And owatch provides
spurious reboots?
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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