Re: [PATCH v3 16/29] tests/qtest: remove clock_steps from virtio tests

[Fabiano Rosas]

Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:

> In the qtest environment time will not step forward if the system is
> paused (timers disabled) or we have no timer events to fire. As a
> result VirtIO events are responded to directly and we don't need to
> step time forward.
>
> We still do timeout processing to handle the fact the target QEMU may
> not be ready to respond right away. This will usually be due to a slow
> CI system or if QEMU is running under something like rr.
>
> Future qtest patches will assert that time actually changes when a
> step is requested.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>