Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Mar 2022 12:56:08 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC 08/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add IFS sysfs interface | From | "Joseph, Jithu" <> |
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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.
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