Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2025 15:18:42 -0800 | | From | Shakeel Butt <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] selftests: cgroup: Replace sleep with cg_read_key_long_poll() for waiting on nr_dying_descendants |
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 08:38:16PM +0800, Guopeng Zhang wrote: > Replaced the manual sleep and retry logic in test_kmem_dead_cgroups() with the new > helper `cg_read_key_long_poll()`. This change improves the robustness of the test by > polling the "nr_dying_descendants" counter in `cgroup.stat` until it reaches 0 or the timeout is exceeded. > > Additionally, increased the retry timeout to 8 seconds (from 5 seconds) based on testing results:
Why 8 seconds? What does it depend on? For memcg stats I see the 3 seconds driven from the 2 sec periodic rstat flush. Mainly how can we make this more future proof?
> - With 5-second timeout: 4/20 runs passed. > - With 8-second timeout: 20/20 runs passed. > > Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>
Anyways, just add a sentence in the commit message on the reasoning behind 8 seconds and a comment in code as well. With that, you can add:
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
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