On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 12:56:08PM -0800, Joseph, Jithu wrote: > > > On 3/7/2022 12:25 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > I am speaking of the state of the case where 2 threads are doing > > run_test and polling for results. Unless you can guarantee that run2 > > does not start before the results of run1 have been collected then > > they are lost in that scenario. No amount of kernel locking can > > resolve that race to collect previous result which would not be a > > problem in the first place if there was an atomic way to log test > > results. > > > Yes "status" shows the status of the latest run. You cannot get the status of the previous run. > > Also some context on test frequency: Hardware has strict rate limiting of tests. > Every core can be tested only once in every 30 minutes. So it is pointless to test at high frequency. What limits this, the kernel?