From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: eugene.loh@oracle.com
Cc: dtrace@lists.linux.dev, dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] test: Convert tick-* probes to ioctl:entry for tst.trunc[quant].d
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:21:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87qzygmfto.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250501182252.27772-2-eugene.loh@oracle.com> (eugene loh's message of "Thu, 1 May 2025 14:22:51 -0400")
On 1 May 2025, eugene loh said:
> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
>
> Historically, many tests have used tick-* probes to get multiple
> probe firings, but those probes can be unreliable, depending on
> how a kernel is configured. Tests that required very many probe
> firings have been converted to ioctl:entry. Tests that required
> very few have been left alone.
>
> Convert more of these tests. They normally pass, but with erratic
> execution time and sometimes time out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-16 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-01 18:22 [PATCH 1/3] Cache per-CPU agg map IDs eugene.loh
2025-05-01 18:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] test: Convert tick-* probes to ioctl:entry for tst.trunc[quant].d eugene.loh
2025-07-16 13:21 ` Nick Alcock [this message]
2025-05-01 18:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] test: Mimic dtrace arithmetic more closely for avg/stddev eugene.loh
2025-07-16 13:22 ` [DTrace-devel] " Nick Alcock
2025-07-16 19:51 ` Eugene Loh
2025-07-16 13:20 ` [DTrace-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Cache per-CPU agg map IDs Nick Alcock
2025-07-16 18:42 ` Eugene Loh
2025-07-16 19:10 ` Kris Van Hees
2025-07-16 20:05 ` Eugene Loh
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