eth: fix race condition in eth/sync tests #522
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I tested this in a super slow machine twice. First time I got a race but test finished. Second time I got a race and test hasn't finished because of timeout after 10 minutes. |
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Hm, thanks for the report. I'll come back with another. |
The race was discoverable with go test -race ./eth or under 'slow' machine conditions, eg. GOMAXPROCS=1 and/or a 'slower' machine. The race was around the minArtificialFinalityPeers value, which was both - assigned in (during) the tests, and - checked in the nextSyncOp function and the order of those uses was nondeterministic. This patch resolves the issue by moving the adhoc and temporary re-assignment of that package-wide value to the start of the tests, before any go routines for peer handling or sync protocol are fired off. Note that the real-clock timeouts in these tests can still cause spurious test failures under 'slow' conditions (see their 250ms sleeps). Fixes #521 Date: 2023-01-30 13:39:38-08:00 Signed-off-by: meows <b5c6@protonmail.com>
@ziogaschr found a(nother) race condition in the tests, which I have had a hard time dupliating with env GOMAXPROCS=1 go test -count 1 -race ./eth But this should, hopefully, fix the issue. Date: 2023-02-07 08:47:44-08:00 Signed-off-by: meows <b5c6@protonmail.com>
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Test failed with the following race condition: |
The TestArtificialFinality.._xxx tests are racey because of this value; the tests want to manhandle it while the handler goroutines (and chainsyncop calls) are running. This might fix it, though it feels like overkill. Date: 2023-02-07 13:59:16-08:00 Signed-off-by: meows <b5c6@protonmail.com>
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I'm still struggling to reproduce the issue, but above is another commit-swing at it. Thanks to @ziogaschr for being my canary in the coal mine. To test, I'm using: |
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Fixes #521
The race was discoverable with
go test -race ./ethor under 'slow' machine conditions, eg. GOMAXPROCS=1 and/or a 'slower' machine.
The race was around the
minArtificialFinalityPeersvalue, which was bothand the order of those uses was nondeterministic.
This patch resolves the issue by moving
the adhoc and temporary re-assignment of that
package-wide value to the start of the tests,
before any go routines for peer handling
or sync protocol are fired off.
Note that the real-clock timeouts in these
tests can still (invariantly) cause spurious test failures
under 'slow' conditions (see their 250ms sleeps).
This invariant limitation (seen in the upstream-identical tests
TestSnapSyncDisabling6[6|7]) can be reproduced on my computer with:Reviewers can test the efficacy of this patch with