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Simplify bufferevent timeout tests to reduce CPU usage in between sta…
…rt/compare Between start (setting "started_at") and comparing the time when timeouts triggered with the start (test_timeval_diff_eq), there is too much various things that can introduce extra delays and eventually could fail the test on machine with shortage of CPU. And this is exactly what happend on: - travis-ci - libevent#262 Here is a simple reproducer that I came up with for this issue: docker run --cpus=0.01 -e LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/lib -e PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:$PWD/bin -v $PWD:$PWD --rm -it debian:testing regress --no-fork --verbose bufferevent/bufferevent_timeout Under limited CPU (see reproducer) the test almost always has problems with that "write_timeout_at" exceed default timeval diff tolerance (test_timeval_diff_eq() has 50 tolerance), i.e.: FAIL ../test/regress_bufferevent.c:1040: assert(labs(timeval_msec_diff(((&started_at)), ((&res1.write_timeout_at))) - (100)) <= 50): 101 vs 50 But under some setup write timeout can even not triggered, and the reason for this is that we write to the bufferevent 1024*1024 bytes, and hence if evbuffer_write_iovec() will has some delay after writev() and not send more then one vector at a time [1], it is pretty simple to trigger, i.e.: FAIL ../test/regress_bufferevent.c:1040: assert(labs(timeval_msec_diff(((&started_at)), ((&res1.write_timeout_at))) - (100)) <= 50): 1540155888478 vs 50 [1]: https://gist.github.com/azat/b72773dfe7549fed865d439e03de05c1 So this patch just send static small payload for all cases (plus a few more asserts added). The outcome of this patch is that all regression tests passed on travis-ci for linux box [2]. While before it fails almost always [3]. Also reproducer with CPU limiting via docker also survive some iterations (and strictly speaking it should has less CPU then travis-ci workers I guess). [2]: https://travis-ci.org/azat/libevent/builds/444391481 [3]: https://travis-ci.org/libevent/libevent/builds/444336505
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