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

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Tue May 25 15:21:47 CEST 2021


Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> writes:

> 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?

Okay, I think it's fine to remove it as well.

I will submit v2



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