Re: [PATCH V1 01/13] selftests/resctrl: Fix feature detection

[Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>]

Hi Reinette,

On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 11:45 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi Sai,
> 
> On 3/11/2020 11:22 AM, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote:
> > Hi Reinette,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 11:06 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> > > Hi Sai,
> > > 
> > > On 3/9/2020 3:51 PM, Prakhya, Sai Praneeth wrote:
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
> > > > > Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 3:34 PM
> > > > 
> > > > [SNIP]
> > > > 
> > > > > > That's a good point and makes sense to me. I think we could fix it
> > > > > > in
> > > > > > two ways 1. grep for strings in dmesg but that will still leave
> > > > > > ambiguity in deciding b/w mbm and cqm because kernel prints
> > > > > > "resctrl:
> > > > > > L3
> > > > > monitoring detected" for both the features 2. Check in "info"
> > > > > directory
> > > > > > 	a. For cat_l3, we could search for info/L3
> > > > > > 	b. For mba, we could search for info/MB
> > > > > > 	c. For cqm and mbm, we could search for specified string in
> > > > > > info/L3_MON/mon_features
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I think option 2 might be better because it can handle all cases,
> > > > > > please let me
> > > > > know what you think.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I agree. For the reasons you mention and also that (1) may not be
> > > > > possible if the
> > > > > loglevel prevents those lines from being printed.
> > > > 
> > > > Makes sense. I will work on the fix.
> > > 
> > > One more note about this ... from what I can tell the test for a feature
> > > currently fails if the platform does not support the feature. Would it
> > > be possible to just skip the test in this case instead?
> > 
> > That's because the output of the test should be just "ok" or "not ok".
> 
> The output could be something like:
> 
> ok MBA # SKIP MBA is not supported

Makes sense.. I will fix it.

> > I can change it to something like "# Skip <test_name> because platform
> > doesn't
> > support the feature", but not really sure if it complies with TAP 13
> > protocol.
> 
> Please consider the "skip" directive at
> https://testanything.org/tap-version-13-specification.html

Sure! thanks for the link :)

Regards,
Sai