NO-ISSUE: validate footprint-and-performance low-latency setup

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Summary

Make the footprint-and-performance low-latency setup fail early and diagnostically when the host is not configured for the measurement.

Changes

• Run the existing microshift-baseline profile after the RT kernel is installed, selected, and upgraded.
• Add a preflight before hwlatdetect and oslat that validates the running/default RT kernel, active TuneD profile, required live kernel arguments, configured CPU online/offline state, and hugepage settings on traditional RPM-based RHEL hosts.
• Derive expected values from the generated TuneD variables file instead of hardcoding machine-specific CPU ranges.
• Use version-aware kernel selection consistently in setup and preflight.

The existing latency threshold and oslat measurement scripts are unchanged.

Validation

• make build
• make verify-sh
• bash -n on all changed shell scripts
• ShellCheck with external sources
• Controlled missing-configuration preflight check
• Setup/test lexical-order checks
• git diff --check

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• Bug Fixes

  • Improved selection of the default real-time kernel by consistently choosing the highest available version.
  • Made TuneD package changes safer by validating repository availability and rejecting failed or potentially destructive downgrade operations.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive validation for low-latency configuration, including the active performance profile, kernel settings, CPU isolation and offlining, huge pages, and the running real-time kernel.
  • Verification now confirms that the configured boot kernel matches the active kernel and expected performance settings.

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Summary

Make the footprint-and-performance low-latency setup fail early and diagnostically when the host is not configured for the measurement.

Changes

• Run the existing microshift-baseline profile after the RT kernel is installed, selected, and upgraded.
• Add a preflight before hwlatdetect and oslat that validates the running/default RT kernel, active TuneD profile, required live kernel arguments, configured CPU online/offline state, and hugepage settings on traditional RPM-based RHEL hosts.
• Derive expected values from the generated TuneD variables file instead of hardcoding machine-specific CPU ranges.
• Use version-aware kernel selection consistently in setup and preflight.

The existing latency threshold and oslat measurement scripts are unchanged.

Validation

• make build
• make verify-sh
• bash -n on all changed shell scripts
• ShellCheck with external sources
• Controlled missing-configuration preflight check
• Setup/test lexical-order checks
• git diff --check

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Walkthrough

The change refines kernel-RT and pinned TuneD setup checks. It adds a script that verifies the low-latency baseline, including kernel, boot, TuneD, command-line, and CPU state.

Changes

Low-latency baseline

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Kernel-RT and TuneD setup validation scripts/ci-footprint-and-performance/setup/021-install-kernel-rt.sh	The script selects the newest kernel-rt, validates exact pinned TuneD packages, and classifies downgrade preflight results. It rejects blocking diagnostics and package removal or obsoletion actions.
Low-latency baseline verification scripts/ci-footprint-and-performance/tests/009-verify-low-latency-setup.sh	The new script validates configuration values, kernel and grubby state, the active TuneD profile, required kernel arguments, and CPU online or offline states. Kernel argument checks suppress tracing and omit /proc/cmdline from failure messages.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: ready-for-human-review

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f0914

The low-latency setup validation remains aligned with the configured profile and post-reboot checks, with no actionable merge risk identified.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 14 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (14 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies validation of the footprint-and-performance low-latency setup, which matches the main pull request changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only three shell-script paths: the RT kernel setup script, a renamed TuneD setup script, and a low-latency verification script. No Go or other Ginkgo test sourc…
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only shell scripts under the footprint-and-performance setup/tests paths. The added test file is a Bash validation script, not Ginkgo code, and the changed patch contain…
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only shell scripts under the footprint-and-performance setup and tests. The added test is a Bash script, not a Ginkgo e2e test, and contains no Ginkgo construct…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes two shell scripts and renames one shell setup script. It adds no Go or Ginkgo tests and contains no It(), Describe(), Context(), or When() declarations. The SNO…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS — The authoritative PR diff changes only three shell scripts under scripts/ci-footprint-and-performance: TuneD/kernel setup, a script rename, and low-latency host validation. The diff adds no d…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	PASS: The review-scoped diff changes only three shell scripts, with one rename and no changed Go or OTE binary source. The patch adds shell diagnostics and command output, but it does not modify main(…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request adds shell setup logic and one Bash validation script. It does not add Ginkgo tests or Go e2e test constructs. The new validation script checks local files, kernel state, TuneD …
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes only TuneD/kernel setup and CPU, kernel, and profile validation. The authoritative diff contains no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish, or ECB usage, custom cryptograph…
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only host-oriented shell scripts. The authoritative diff contains no container or Kubernetes manifest changes and no introduced privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, `…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	No sensitive-data logging condition is introduced. The new verification script disables tracing before reading or validating /proc/cmdline, then unsets the variable. Its failure messages log only ke…

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🟡 Minor · Do not accept every Operation aborted preflight. · 021-install-kernel-rt.sh:32-46

scripts/ci-footprint-and-performance/setup/021-install-kernel-rt.sh:32-46
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not accept every Operation aborted preflight. --assumeno normally returns nonzero with Operation aborted, but DNF4 also uses that message for blocked read-only or protected transactions. This command can therefore match the preflight check, run the real dnf downgrade -y, and fail there under set -e instead of reporting the blocking reason during preflight. Accept the expected dry-run refusal only after rejecting DNF blocking diagnostics. Nothing to do is not the nonzero-error case.

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In `@scripts/ci-footprint-and-performance/setup/021-install-kernel-rt.sh` around
lines 32 - 46, Refine the preflight validation around the dnf downgrade command
so an “Operation aborted” result is accepted only when it represents the
expected --assumeno refusal, not a read-only, protected, or other blocking
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In `@scripts/ci-footprint-and-performance/setup/021-install-kernel-rt.sh`:
- Around line 32-46: Refine the preflight validation around the dnf downgrade
command so an “Operation aborted” result is accepted only when it represents the
expected --assumeno refusal, not a read-only, protected, or other blocking
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