<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:42 AM Joel Sherrill <<a href="mailto:joel@rtems.org">joel@rtems.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>On the aarch64 qemu testing, we are seeing some tests which seem to pass most of the time but fail intermittently. It appears to be based somewhat on host load but there may be other factors. </div><div> <br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>There does not appear to be a good test results state for these. Marking them expected pass or fail means they will get flagged incorrectly sometimes.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are they expected to pass every time?</div><div><br></div><div>Intermittent failures are suspicious, and there is limited value to running a test that has an "intermittent failure" state, since it will always be successful if you don't care if it passes or fails.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>I don't see not running them as a good option. Beyond adding a new state to reflect this oddity, any suggestions?</div><div><br></div><div>--joel</div></div>
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