pcapng_autotest unit test false positive

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Apr 2 02:46:24 CEST 2024


On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 18:26:44 -0400
Patrick Robb <probb at iol.unh.edu> wrote:

> Another idea - maybe multiple timestamps are gathered from different
> CPU registers during the same test, and they are misaligned for that
> reason. Maybe we can try reducing the cores for each unit test to 1
> and checking whether the issue persists.

TSC is expected to be sync'd between cores. But of course packets can
arrive out of order on different cores.


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