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From: "Joseph, Jithu" <jithu.joseph@intel.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 08/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add IFS sysfs interface
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 12:56:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eab8177d-eb73-ec64-ec1f-4f2a51be8aee@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iUuZ0aAWckWvwbxJJgt5tDJRpeonfE4DegWS6KPtJq8A@mail.gmail.com>



On 3/7/2022 12:25 PM, Dan Williams wrote:

> 
> I am speaking of the state of the case where 2 threads are doing
> run_test and polling for results. Unless you can guarantee that run2
> does not start before the results of run1 have been collected then
> they are lost in that scenario. No amount of kernel locking can
> resolve that race to collect previous result which would not be a
> problem in the first place if there was an atomic way to log test
> results.


Yes "status" shows the status of the latest run. You cannot get the status of the previous run.

Also some context on test frequency: Hardware has  strict rate limiting of tests.
Every core can be tested only once in every 30 minutes. So it is pointless to test at high frequency.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-07 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-01 19:54 [RFC 00/10] Introduce In Field Scan driver Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 01/10] x86/microcode/intel: expose collect_cpu_info_early() for IFS Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 20:08   ` Greg KH
2022-03-02  0:56     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-02 10:30   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-03-03  1:34     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 02/10] Documentation: In-Field Scan Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 20:07   ` Greg KH
2022-03-02  0:58     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 03/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add driver for " Jithu Joseph
2022-03-02 23:24   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-02 23:31     ` Raj, Ashok
2022-03-03  0:02     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-03  2:04     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 04/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Load IFS Image Jithu Joseph
2022-03-03  2:58   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 05/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Check IFS Image sanity Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 06/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Authenticate and copy to secured memory Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 07/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Create kthreads for online cpus for scan test Jithu Joseph
2022-03-03  4:17   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-03 19:59     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-04 19:20     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 16:52       ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 17:46         ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-10 21:42           ` Kok, Auke
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 08/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add IFS sysfs interface Jithu Joseph
2022-03-04  0:31   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-04 16:51     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-04 20:42     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-04 21:01       ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-21 21:15         ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-07 17:38       ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 19:09         ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 19:15           ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 19:55             ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 20:25               ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 20:56                 ` Joseph, Jithu [this message]
2022-03-07 21:28                   ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 21:30                   ` gregkh
2022-03-07 21:33                     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 09/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: add ABI documentation for IFS Jithu Joseph
2022-03-04  0:57   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 10/10] trace: platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add trace point to track Intel IFS operations Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 20:17   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-03-02  1:02     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 20:10 ` [RFC 00/10] Introduce In Field Scan driver Greg KH
2022-03-01 20:14   ` Greg KH
2022-03-14 23:10     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-15  7:34       ` Greg KH
2022-03-15 14:59         ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-15 15:26           ` Greg KH
2022-03-15 16:04             ` Dan Williams
2022-03-15 16:09               ` Dan Williams
2022-03-15 16:10             ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-16  8:09               ` Greg KH
2022-03-02 15:33   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-03-02 16:20     ` Greg KH
2022-03-02 13:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-03-02 20:29   ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-02 21:18     ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-03-02 21:41       ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-02 23:11 ` Williams, Dan J

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