On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 09:59 -0700, Martin Bligh wrote:
> +cc: Michael.

Poking md, mbligh

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> From: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:02 AM
> Subject: [Autotest] increase robustness of tsc test
> To: [email protected]
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently saw a lot of failures on running checktest test
> on virtual machines. Investigating further, it seems that running it
> into VMs just makes a conceptual problem more likely to happen:
> Since we're in userspace, the other thread that should read tsc can be
> out of the of the cpu at the moment, so all measures will be very
> different.
> 
> This is indicated by the tsc roundtrip. In failed measures, they are all
> quite big. So I am proposing this patch, that basically ignores roundtrips
> that are twice as big as the threshold, or more.
> 
> It makes the test pass to me, in machines I would expect them to.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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