Thank you for Ali and Lijuan.

We had tested the patch on the Arm machines setup. Other than the value
issues, the test is running as expected.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 4:48 AM Tu, Lijuan <lijuan.tu@intel.com> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> > Sent: 2021年3月23日 16:44
> > To: Tu, Lijuan <lijuan.tu@intel.com>
> > Cc: dts@dpdk.org; dpdklab@iol.unh.edu
> > Subject: RE: [dts] [PATCH] tests/nic_single_core_perf: modify
> > accepted_tolerance to percentage
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dts <dts-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Lijuan Tu
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:48 PM
> > > To: dpdklab@iol.unh.edu
> > > Cc: dts@dpdk.org; Lijuan Tu <lijuan.tu@intel.com>
> > > Subject: [dts] [PATCH] tests/nic_single_core_perf: modify
> > > accepted_tolerance to percentage
> > >
> > > * accepted_tolerance in conf/nic_single_core_perf.cfg are changed to
> > > percentage, e.g.
> > >     accepted_tolerance = '1%%'
> > >     if not set, it will be set to 2% by default.
> > > * delat in json are chagned to percentage too, e.g.
> > >     'delta': '1.5%'
> > > * expected_throughput will be forced to 1Mpps for compute delat in
> > > percentage
> > > * add new conf test_interval in conf/nic_single_core_perf.cfg, which
> > > indicates interval of getting throughput statistics in second, e.g.
> > >     test_interval = 10
> > >     if not set, it will be set to 5 seconds by default.
> > > * collect better statistics , get multiple throughput statistics
> > > during the test run, and compute the average as the final results.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lijuan Tu <lijuan.tu@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > <snipped>
> > > +accepted_tolerance = '1%%'
> > <snipped>
> > > +                    diff =
> > > + (self.throughput[fwd_config][frame_size][nb_desc] -
> > > +
> > > self.expected_throughput[fwd_config][frame_size][nb_desc])/ \
> > > +
> > > self.expected_throughput[fwd_config][frame_size][nb_desc]
> >
> > The value of `diff` here is still a decimal, and needs to be multiplied
> by a 100
> > before it can be compared to `accepted_tolerance`.
> >
> > I suggest splitting this patch into multiple ones. One for making the
> percentage
> > change and one for taking the mean for multiple readings since they are
> > unrelated changes.
> > I also see other unrelated changes not explained in the commit message.
>
> Really appreciate for your review, I will accept your advices.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ali
>