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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks Jeremy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I quickly checked per-patches results and logs for the failures. That seems not always failed case.. like fluctuation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">For this case, could you help to check<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">- if BIOS’s turbo boost is off, C0/C1 is off, C6 is off<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">- if cores’ are isolated in kernel’s parameter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">- if other tasks are scheduled on the testbed when running performance test<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If all settings are good, we may consider it’s a regression or unstable performance issue. We will double check the performance by IXIA with latest DPDK master when we back
to office (1 week later). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks. Any problem, please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Zhaoyan Chen<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Jeremy Plsek <jplsek@iol.unh.edu> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 31, 2020 10:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie@iol.unh.edu>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; ci@dpdk.org; Tu, Lijuan <lijuan.tu@intel.com>; Xu, Qian Q <qian.q.xu@intel.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [dpdk-ci] Intel performance test is failing<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It's possible this is happening more frequently because of enabling overlayfs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We also changed how the baseline is retrieved because of the overlayfs system, but this issue was happening before this change.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think this started happening after a few months after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here are the recent results (login to view and download the artifacts):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9344/#env-19">https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9344/#env-19</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9343/#env-19">https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9343/#env-19</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9340/#env-19">https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9340/#env-19</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here are some results that were "off" (see the "Run 1" tab):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9346/#env-19">https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9346/#env-19</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And here are some older tests where this occurred:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I also found some tests where it happened on the 40g platform:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9188/#env-18">https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9188/#env-18</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(older, before enabling overlayfs):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/7665/#env-18">https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/7665/#env-18</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:17 PM Chen, Zhaoyan <<a href="mailto:zhaoyan.chen@intel.com">zhaoyan.chen@intel.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi, Jeremy and Lincoln,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Did you change anything on the Intel testbed? DTS code or testbed environment?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">And could you send me the detailed test logs? We will do a quick check.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 24, 2020 4:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jeremy Plsek <<a href="mailto:jplsek@iol.unh.edu" target="_blank">jplsek@iol.unh.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Thomas Monjalon <<a href="mailto:thomas@monjalon.net" target="_blank">thomas@monjalon.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:ci@dpdk.org" target="_blank">ci@dpdk.org</a>; Tu, Lijuan <<a href="mailto:lijuan.tu@intel.com" target="_blank">lijuan.tu@intel.com</a>>; Chen, Zhaoyan <<a href="mailto:zhaoyan.chen@intel.com" target="_blank">zhaoyan.chen@intel.com</a>>; Xu,
Qian Q <<a href="mailto:qian.q.xu@intel.com" target="_blank">qian.q.xu@intel.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [dpdk-ci] Intel performance test is failing<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:25 AM Jeremy Plsek <<a href="mailto:jplsek@iol.unh.edu" target="_blank">jplsek@iol.unh.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:06 AM Thomas Monjalon <<a href="mailto:thomas@monjalon.net" target="_blank">thomas@monjalon.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The test iol-intel-Performance is failing on all patches<br>
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> It seems to be due to a perf drop with a 10G device<br>
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> We need also to understand how to avoid such failure,<br>
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I've disabled it for now until someone from the Intel team can look<br>
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I've also seem problems where the results are completely off<br>
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