selftests/powerpc: Relax L1d miss targets for rfi_flush test

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Nov 1 23:46:51 AEDT 2018


On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 08:04:56 UTC, "Naveen N. Rao" wrote:
> When running the rfi_flush test, if the system is loaded, we see two
> issues:
> 1. The L1d misses when rfi_flush is disabled increase significantly due
> to other workloads interfering with the cache.
> 2. The L1d misses when rfi_flush is enabled sometimes goes slightly
> below the expected number of misses.
> 
> To address these, let's relax the expected number of L1d misses:
> 1. When rfi_flush is disabled, we allow upto half the expected number of
> the misses for when rfi_flush is enabled.
> 2. When rfi_flush is enabled, we allow ~1% lower number of cache misses.
> 
> Reported-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a95ecac5cb2fc8a8ee606991384d33

cheers


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