Re: [LTP] realtime measurement tests: approach to criteria

[Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>]

Subrata Modak wrote:
> Hi Darren,
> 
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 16:30 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: 
>> The current ltp/testcases/realtime tests belong to one of func, perf, or 
>> stress.  While strict pass/fail criteria make sense for functional tests 
>> (did the tasks wake up in priority order?), the others use "arbitrary" 
>> values and compare those against the whatever is being measured (wakeup 
>> latency, etc.) and then determine pass/fail.  Ideally the tests 
>> themselves would not determine the pass/fail criteria, and would instead 
>> simply report on their measurements since the criteria will vary in 
>> every use-case based on requirements, workload, hardware, etc.
>>
>> I'd like to propose an approach where the tests only report their 
>> measured values (with the exception of the func/* tests which will 
>> maintain their pass/fail criteria).  Users should be able to populate a 
>> criteria.conf file that specified the criteria of each test.  The 
>> results could then be parsed, compared against the results, and a 
>> pass/fail determined from there.  I suspect it would be best for the .c 
>> tests to just report the numbers and the statistics in a common format 
>> and rely on python parser scripts to read the config file and determine 
>> pass/fail from there.
>>
>> I'd like users thoughts on this approach before we jump in and start 
>> changing things (as this is a fairly invasive change).
> 
> This is indeed a good approach. Should we also ask the RT-USERS, who
> might be interested to comment on this ?

Thanks for including the rt-users list, yes I should have done that 
originally as well.

-- 
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team

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