On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 08:04:56 UTC, "Naveen N. Rao" wrote: > When running the rfi_flush test, if the system is loaded, we see two > issues: > 1. The L1d misses when rfi_flush is disabled increase significantly due > to other workloads interfering with the cache. > 2. The L1d misses when rfi_flush is enabled sometimes goes slightly > below the expected number of misses. > > To address these, let's relax the expected number of L1d misses: > 1. When rfi_flush is disabled, we allow upto half the expected number of > the misses for when rfi_flush is enabled. > 2. When rfi_flush is enabled, we allow ~1% lower number of cache misses. > > Reported-by: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au> > Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n....@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Tested-by: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a95ecac5cb2fc8a8ee606991384d33 cheers
