[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-ci] [PATCH] test: drop 'alarm_autotest' and 'cycles_autotest' from test suite

[Thomas Monjalon]

25/05/2021 02:16, Aaron Conole:
> The tests 'alarm_autotest' and 'cycles_autotest' rely on the underlying
> system having very accurate and precise timing.  On systems where the timing
> isn't as rigid, or the load is particularly high, these tests are unreliable
> since the wake latency from the scheduler can be high enough to miss the
> timing window.
> 
> Remove these tests from the test suites.  Maybe it's useful for these
> tests to be present as a diagnostics tool, but for normal unit testing,
> they don't provide much value.  They have falsely flagged patches as
> FAIL on various infrastructures.

Are sure of the value keeping the source code?