tests: explicitly wait for the PG to finish before looking for capture file

Rather than only using time-based method of periodically checking
whether the pcap file appeared, first check that the packet generator
has stopped. To make this change fail-safe, have a 5-minute timeout
on this activity, just in case the things go terribly wrong.

Type: test
Signed-off-by: Andrew Yourtchenko <ayourtch@gmail.com>
Change-Id: Id16b2802b2de8a4cafb5d9f0a8c9ba62ec89dc32

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/vpp_pg_interface.py b/test/vpp_pg_interface.py
index b347f9d5096..e5926fac509 100755
--- a/test/vpp_pg_interface.py
+++ b/test/vpp_pg_interface.py
@@ -295,6 +295,20 @@ class VppPGInterface(VppInterface):
                 raise AssertionError("Capture file present for interface %s" %
                                      self.name)
 
+    def wait_for_pg_stop(self):
+        # wait till packet-generator is stopped
+        # "show packet-generator" while it is still running gives this:
+        # Name               Enabled        Count     Parameters
+        # pcap0-sw_if_inde     Yes           64       limit 64, ...
+        #
+        # also have a 5-minute timeout just in case things go terribly wrong...
+        deadline = time.time() + 300
+        while self.test.vapi.cli('show packet-generator').find("Yes") != -1:
+            self._test.sleep(0.01)  # yield
+            if time.time() > deadline:
+                self.test.logger.debug("Timeout waiting for pg to stop")
+                break
+
     def wait_for_capture_file(self, timeout=1):
         """
         Wait until pcap capture file appears
@@ -303,6 +317,7 @@ class VppPGInterface(VppInterface):
 
         :returns: True/False if the file is present or appears within timeout
         """
+        self.wait_for_pg_stop()
         deadline = time.time() + timeout
         if not os.path.isfile(self.out_path):
             self.test.logger.debug("Waiting for capture file %s to appear, "