Wait up to 30 seconds for each step the routewatch tests expect (closes #213)

Five prefix handler tests gave HandleMessage two seconds to apply a full
batch of 25,000 prefixes. Under the race detector on a loaded host that
takes longer, so they failed although nothing waited. Among them were
TestPrefixHandlerSkipsItsLastWriteAfterTheStopDeadline,
TestPrefixHandlerSkipsAFullBatchAfterTheStopDeadline and
TestPrefixHandlerHandlesMessagesWhileAWriteIsBlocked.

handleMessageTimeout is now 30 seconds, and every bound a test in the
package puts on a step it expects uses it. Only a step that never comes
reaches it. A test that hangs still fails with its own message before go
test's 90-second timeout.

Model: opus-5-5

TODO.md

@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ tested.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-10-27: the tests of `internal/routewatch` no longer fail on a loaded
+  host. Five of them gave `HandleMessage` two seconds to apply a full prefix
+  batch, which under the race detector can take longer. A test now waits up to
+  30 seconds for each step it expects (closes #213)
 - 2026-10-27: the server works out the home page's cards every minute until it
   stops. It used to work them out only once, at startup: the end of the context
   that `Start` is given stopped the refreshes (closes #211)

internal/routewatch/app_integration_internal_test.go

@@ -509,8 +509,6 @@ func announcementFeed(prefixes []string) string {
 func TestShutdownWritesTheUpdatesQueuedInTheStreamer(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	const maxWait = 10 * time.Second
-
 	prefixes := []string{"192.0.2.0/24", "198.51.100.0/24", "203.0.113.0/24"}
 	feed := announcementFeed(prefixes)
 
@@ -556,9 +554,9 @@ func TestShutdownWritesTheUpdatesQueuedInTheStreamer(t *testing.T) {
 	for range cap(linesSeen) {
 		select {
 		case <-linesSeen:
-		case <-time.After(maxWait):
+		case <-time.After(handleMessageTimeout):
 			t.Fatalf("the streamer did not read %d lines within %s",
-				cap(linesSeen), maxWait)
+				cap(linesSeen), handleMessageTimeout)
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -571,8 +569,8 @@ func TestShutdownWritesTheUpdatesQueuedInTheStreamer(t *testing.T) {
 
 	select {
 	case <-shutDown:
-	case <-time.After(maxWait):
+	case <-time.After(handleMessageTimeout):
-		t.Fatalf("Shutdown did not return within %s", maxWait)
+		t.Fatalf("Shutdown did not return within %s", handleMessageTimeout)
 	}
 
 	store.mu.Lock()
@@ -611,19 +609,14 @@ func freePort(t *testing.T) int {
 
 // TestShutdownReturnsByItsDeadlineWhileAWriteIsBlocked starts the HTTP server
 // and has the AS handler start a write that the store holds until the test
-// ends, past Shutdown's deadline. Shutdown must return within its deadline
+// ends, past Shutdown's deadline. Shutdown must return without waiting for the
-// plus a small margin, with the HTTP server stopped, and must neither
+// write, with the HTTP server stopped, and must neither checkpoint nor close
-// checkpoint nor close the database: the real one would wait for the write.
+// the database: the real one would wait for the write.
 // Before the fix Shutdown waited for the write.
 func TestShutdownReturnsByItsDeadlineWhileAWriteIsBlocked(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	const (
+	const deadline = 100 * time.Millisecond
-		deadline = 100 * time.Millisecond
-		// margin is how long Shutdown may take after its deadline, to stop
-		// the HTTP server.
-		margin = 2 * time.Second
-	)
 
 	blocking := newBlockingStore()
 	defer blocking.releaseWrites()
@@ -667,9 +660,9 @@ func TestShutdownReturnsByItsDeadlineWhileAWriteIsBlocked(t *testing.T) {
 
 	select {
 	case <-shutDown:
-	case <-time.After(deadline + margin):
+	case <-time.After(deadline + handleMessageTimeout):
 		t.Fatalf("Shutdown did not return within %s of its deadline while "+
-			"a write was blocked", margin)
+			"a write was blocked", handleMessageTimeout)
 	}
 
 	var dialer net.Dialer
@@ -744,8 +737,6 @@ func (s *closeOrderStore) record(call string) {
 func TestShutdownCheckpointsAndClosesTheDatabaseLast(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	const deadline = 10 * time.Second
-
 	store := &closeOrderStore{Store: newMockStore()}
 	log := logger.New()
 	cfg := &config.Config{}
@@ -763,7 +754,7 @@ func TestShutdownCheckpointsAndClosesTheDatabaseLast(t *testing.T) {
 		Path: ristypes.ASPath{Sequence: []int{testASNA}},
 	})
 
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(t.Context(), deadline)
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(t.Context(), handleMessageTimeout)
 	defer cancel()
 
 	rw.Shutdown(ctx)

internal/routewatch/batchwrite_internal_test.go

@@ -19,9 +19,13 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	// handleMessageTimeout is how long a test waits for HandleMessage to
+	// handleMessageTimeout is how long a test waits for a step it expects,
-	// return, or for a write to start, before it fails.
+	// such as HandleMessage returning or a write starting, before it fails.
-	handleMessageTimeout = 2 * time.Second
+	// Only a step that never comes should reach it. On a loaded host, under
+	// the race detector, HandleMessage takes seconds to apply a full prefix
+	// batch. A test that hangs still fails with its own message before go
+	// test's 90-second timeout.
+	handleMessageTimeout = 30 * time.Second
 
 	// stillWaitingAfter is how long a test watches a HandleMessage that must
 	// wait. One that does not wait returns well within it.

internal/routewatch/prefixhandler_table_internal_test.go

@@ -32,10 +32,6 @@ const (
 	firstManyPrefix = "10.0.0.0/32"
 )
 
-// tableWriteTimeout is how long a test waits for the flush timer to write the
-// routing table's changes: a few ticks of it.
-const tableWriteTimeout = 5 * prefixBatchTimeout
-
 // tableCase is one test of the routing table in memory: the messages handed to
 // the prefix handler, and for each prefix the peers that carry it with each
 // origin AS after them.
@@ -276,9 +272,9 @@ func TestPrefixHandlerWritesTheTableChangesEachSecond(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Fatalf("wrote %+v, want the pair of %s and AS%d with "+
 					"removed %t", changes, prefix, testASNB, step.wantRemoved)
 			}
-		case <-time.After(tableWriteTimeout):
+		case <-time.After(handleMessageTimeout):
 			t.Fatalf("the routing table's change was not written within %s",
-				tableWriteTimeout)
+				handleMessageTimeout)
 		}
 	}
 }