Annotate test cases which are timing sensitive

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Many tests in the cpython test suite are sensitive to timing and assume an entirely unloaded system. For example, the TimerfdTests check for 1ms accuracy in expected durations. Some people (eg people building and testing python) may be running the test suite on build machines which are potentially heavily loaded so this sort of expectation isn't feasible.

It seems like a good solution to this would be to annotate the tests which are timing sensitive in some way, so they can be skipped easily.

For reference, we're manually patching python to skip tests which are failing under load but we're now having to rebase these patches on upgrades:

• https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-Skip-failing-tests-due-to-load-variability-on-YP-AB.patch
• https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-skip-no_stdout_fileno-test-due-to-load-variability.patch
• https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-test_active_children-skip-problematic-test.patch
• https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-test_deadlock-skip-problematic-test.patch
• https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-test_shutdown-skip-problematic-test.patch
• https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-test_storlines-skip-due-to-load-variability.patch

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs

• gh-130508

Beginne mit der Durchsicht des verknüpften PR gh-130508 und des Beispiels TimerfdTests. Vergleiche die aufgeführten Yocto-Patchdateinamen, einschließlich der Patches no_stdout_fileno und test_active_children, mit der CPython-Testsuite. Als abgeschlossen gilt die Aufgabe, wenn zeitabhängige Tests eine einheitliche Annotation haben und unter Last problemlos übersprungen werden können.