Re: [PATCH 07/18] tests/gem_ctx_exec: mark lrc lite restore as basic

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On 08/14/2015 05:32 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:31:30PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>> Need some LRC tests in the 'basic' subset, and this is a good simple
>> one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
> 
> This is just a testcase for a very specific lrc corner case. We do already
> exercise lrc with all the other execbuf testcases. Imo we're covered
> enough already with what we have in the basic testset - testing for all 3
> billion cornercases will make it grow out of scope I fear. I'd just drop
> this one here as not needed for BAT.
> 
> If you want to extend execbuffer scope a bit then we should add a
> concurrency test, i.e. one of the gem_concurrent_blt testcases as basic
> ones. Unfortunately to be able to reliable trigger race conditions those
> all take a few seconds. But inter-batch sync is a _big_ gap across all
> archs, and something which is even more tricky with lrc (and scheduler).
> Imo that would be a lot more useful than this test here.

Yeah that's a good point; I just saw 'lrc' and though "I want that", but you're right we should already be covered.  Definitely open to adding some concurrency stuff (maybe just a few seconds worth) as we get things in place.

I'll drop this one.

Jesse

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