commit ef43c30858 upstream.
The initial value of 5% chosen for the maximum allowed percentage
difference between resctrl mbm value and IMC mbm value in
commit 06bd03a57f ("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: 06bd03a57f ("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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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