From 7fb9d792c06d664587b7aebb5b5c0ec8ec2bdc26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Ilpo=20J=C3=A4rvinen?= Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 12:48:13 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] selftests/resctrl: Reduce failures due to outliers in MBA/MBM tests MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit commit ef43c30858754d99373a63dff33280a9969b49bc upstream. The initial value of 5% chosen for the maximum allowed percentage difference between resctrl mbm value and IMC mbm value in commit 06bd03a57f8c ("selftests/resctrl: Fix MBA/MBM results reporting format") was "randomly chosen value" (as admitted by the changelog). When running tests in our lab across a large number platforms, 5% difference upper bound for success seems a bit on the low side for the MBA and MBM tests. Some platforms produce outliers that are slightly above that, typically 6-7%, which leads MBA/MBM test frequently failing. Replace the "randomly chosen value" with a success bound that is based on those measurements across large number of platforms by relaxing the MBA/MBM success bound to 8%. The relaxed bound removes the failures due the frequent outliers. Fixed commit description style error during merge: Shuah Khan Fixes: 06bd03a57f8c ("selftests/resctrl: Fix MBA/MBM results reporting format") Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan Cc: Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c index 4d2f145..c7d1ec6 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ #define RESULT_FILE_NAME "result_mba" #define NUM_OF_RUNS 5 -#define MAX_DIFF_PERCENT 5 +#define MAX_DIFF_PERCENT 8 #define ALLOCATION_MAX 100 #define ALLOCATION_MIN 10 #define ALLOCATION_STEP 10 diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c index c7de6f59..d0c26a5 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ #include "resctrl.h" #define RESULT_FILE_NAME "result_mbm" -#define MAX_DIFF_PERCENT 5 +#define MAX_DIFF_PERCENT 8 #define NUM_OF_RUNS 5 static int -- 2.7.4