selftests/resctrl: Split fill_buf to allow tests finer-grained control
authorIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:04:51 +0000 (17:04 +0200)
committerShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:56:43 +0000 (13:56 -0700)
commitf8f669699977db503569465b64dc5220ab21bb41
tree756bbcf920ca2f8701947176ebcd1e31c62f83a7
parent348139384ba30eccd4ce4f01fcf575b08ce81b83
selftests/resctrl: Split fill_buf to allow tests finer-grained control

MBM, MBA and CMT test cases call run_fill_buf() that in turn calls
fill_cache() to alloc and loop indefinitely around the buffer. This
binds buffer allocation and running the benchmark into a single bundle
so that a selftest cannot allocate a buffer once and reuse it. CAT test
doesn't want to loop around the buffer continuously and after rewrite
it needs the ability to allocate the buffer separately.

Split buffer allocation out of fill_cache() into alloc_buffer(). This
change is part of preparation for the new CAT test that allocates a
buffer and does multiple passes over the same buffer (but not in an
infinite loop).

Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c