[GCU] update pfcwd interval config test

[isabelmsft]

Description of PR

Summary:
Fixes # (issue)

Type of change

• Bug fix
• Testbed and Framework(new/improvement)
• Test case(new/improvement)

Back port request

• 201911
• 202012

Approach

What is the motivation for this PR?

Previous version of test did not account for some configurations of Mellanox DUTs

How did you do it?

Write configuration into DUT

How did you verify/test it?

Verified on multiple physical Mellanox DUTs

Any platform specific information?

Supported testbed topology if it's a new test case?

Documentation

[qiluo-msft]

15

Why 15 seconds? I see other code sleep 5 seconds. Still is it possible not to use magic number at all? For example, sleep until we find a signal that the config take effect.
@neethajohn

[neethajohn]

We do not need 15s. we can check immediately

[mssonicbld]

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trim trailing whitespace.................................................Failed
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Fixing tests/generic_config_updater/test_pfcwd_interval.py

fix end of files.........................................................Passed
check yaml...........................................(no files to check)Skipped
check for added large files..............................................Passed
check python ast.........................................................Passed
flake8...................................................................Passed

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[mssonicbld]

The pre-commit check detected issues in the files touched by this pull request.
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Detailed pre-commit check results:
trim trailing whitespace.................................................Failed
- hook id: trailing-whitespace
- exit code: 1
- files were modified by this hook

Fixing tests/generic_config_updater/test_pfcwd_interval.py

fix end of files.........................................................Passed
check yaml...........................................(no files to check)Skipped
check for added large files..............................................Passed
check python ast.........................................................Passed
flake8...................................................................Passed

To run the pre-commit checks locally, you can follow below steps:

1. Ensure that default python is python3. In sonic-mgmt docker container, default python is python2. You can run
   the check by activating the python3 virtual environment in sonic-mgmt docker container or outside of sonic-mgmt
   docker container.
2. Ensure that the pre-commit package is installed:

sudo pip install pre-commit

3. Go to repository root folder
4. Install the pre-commit hooks:

pre-commit install

5. Use pre-commit to check staged file:

pre-commit

6. Alternatively, you can check committed files using:

pre-commit run --from-ref <commit_id> --to-ref <commit_id>