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authorIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>2023-10-02 12:48:13 +0300
committerShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>2023-10-13 14:54:38 -0600
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selftests/resctrl: Reduce failures due to outliers in MBA/MBM tests
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 <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Fixes: 06bd03a57f8c ("selftests/resctrl: Fix MBA/MBM results reporting format") Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/testing')
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c2
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 cf8284dadcb2..d3bf4368341e 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 1ae131a2e246..d3c0d30c676a 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