linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/10] ktest: Introduce PASS

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Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:49:45 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] ktest: Introduce PASS_COUNT

On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 15:32 +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> Add another config variable that defines the number of times a test
> must pass before it really passes. This is good for boot tests, where
> the failure doesn't occur every time.

I'm curious to how this is really different than the ITERATE keyword.

That is, if we had:

TEST_START ITERATE 10
TEST_TYPE = test
TEST = ssh root@box "/work/runtest"

Hmm, is this to help in the bisects?

Maybe it should be called ITERATE as well, just to be consistent.

TEST_START
TEST_TYPE = bisect
ITERATE = 10

??

Or maybe that is confusing too, as that could be used to do the iterate
within the TEST_START (hmm, I may add that).

How about PASS_THRESHOLD? or PASS_COUNT_THRESHOLD? As I think that may
be more descriptive.

/me rereads his email and sees that he has a tendency to talk to
himself.

-- Steve

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