From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert \(git\)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: lvivier@redhat.com, thuth@redhat.com, philmd@redhat.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, peterx@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests/migration: Add some slack to auto converge
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:34:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1z15xp0.fsf@secure.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200210195731.177595-1-dgilbert@redhat.com> (David Alan Gilbert's message of "Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:57:31 +0000")
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
>
> There's an assert in autoconverge that checks that we quit the
> iteration when we go below the expected threshold. Philippe
> saw a case where this assert fired with the measured value
> slightly over the threshold. (about 3k out of a few million).
>
> I can think of two reasons:
> a) Rounding errors
> b) That after we make the decision to quit iteration we do one
> more sync and that sees a few more dirty pages.
>
> So add 1% slack to the assertion, that should cover a and
> most cases of b, probably all we'll see for the test.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
It shouldn't matter really. And if we are seeing that problem.
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2020-02-10 19:57 [PATCH] tests/migration: Add some slack to auto converge Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2020-02-10 23:05 ` Peter Xu
2020-02-11 8:34 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
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