<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Pavel Labath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:labath@google.com" target="_blank">labath@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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Interesting results. We were discussing the same thing last week. I<br>
was somewhat skeptical to the ideal as I am afraid of increased<br>
flakyness -- LLDB has hardcoded timeout values in a lot of places, and<br>
with increased cpu contention, we might start to see this code failing<br>
because the other side was slower than expected.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, when I first did this a while back (just the parallel piece, not the speedup of it), I think it uncovered a ton of races/flakiness. Much of that has been addressed, but nothing like forcing more contention to work out more of them.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I have now tried running the test suite with a higher number of<br>
threads and it seems it working quite alright, so I think we can try<br>
that. I'll watch the buildbots for signs of increased flakyness. FWIW,<br>
it did not speed up the tests for me at all, but I guess that's<br>
expected, as it ran in 90 seconds even before that, and the limiting<br>
factor there probably is the longest test.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, all those lengthy debugserver/lldb-server tests I wrote a while back tend to have a long tail, and I'm sure you folks have only extended them since then. I have some thoughts on improving the job scheduling in the future (finer grain) but not in the short term.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As for the timeout, I have set the value to 4 minutes, based on the<br>
formula: 2 * (number of seconds when I first started noticing flaky<br>
tests in the slowest configuration). The slowest configuration here<br>
was running the test suite on a debug build of lldb and using debug<br>
ToT clang to compile the inferiors (believe it or not, this makes a<br>
big difference). So there is still some leeway here, but if you're<br>
gonna reduce the default, please make sure it is enough for the<br>
slowest test configuration also. For faster configurations you can<br>
always override the timeout manually.<br>
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pl<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br>Okay. I'm not planning on touching the timeout values at this point, just noting that they may be worth messing with in the future.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'd like to add a very lightweight stats database (that's already too heavy a word, but conveys the idea) that can be arranged to persist across builds (that last part specifically for buildbots). With just a tiny bit of historical data when available, job scheduling to reduce total time of test run could be improved. And with some finer grain scheduling which I plan to look into mid-term via a mechanism to prevent a single test method hangup from knocking out the rest of the test methods in the same run, we could do even better yet. But I'll bring this up when I get closer to having some time to work on it. (And that's not yet!)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">-Todd</div></div>
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