[igt-dev] [RFC PATCH] i915/gem_exec_blt: Remove cold-* subtests
Chris Wilson
chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Nov 1 10:40:43 UTC 2019
Quoting Petri Latvala (2019-11-01 10:35:03)
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 08:07:12AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Vanshidhar Konda (2019-10-31 23:40:04)
> > > The cold-* subtests run the same test as normal-*. Is there are reason
> > > to keep it?
> >
> > Yes. It's a performance test, and they tend to be quite interesting if
> > they demonstrate different behaviour between cold cache and warm cache
> > runs.
>
> But is it a performance test more than the normal-* subtests? Does the
> test assume running more than one subtest at a time?
Yes. The 'test' doesn't do any validation itself...
-Chris
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