5% difference upper bound for success is a bit on the low side for the
MBA and MBM tests. Some platforms produce outliers that are slightly
above that, typically 6-7%.

Relaxing the MBA/MBM success bound to 8% removes most of the failures
due those frequent outliers.

Fixes: 06bd03a57f8c ("selftests/resctrl: Fix MBA/MBM results reporting format")
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvi...@linux.intel.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c | 2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c 
b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c
index cf8284dadcb2..d3bf4368341e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 #define RESULT_FILE_NAME       "result_mba"
 #define NUM_OF_RUNS            5
-#define MAX_DIFF_PERCENT       5
+#define MAX_DIFF_PERCENT       8
 #define ALLOCATION_MAX         100
 #define ALLOCATION_MIN         10
 #define ALLOCATION_STEP                10
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c 
b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c
index 1ae131a2e246..d3c0d30c676a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #include "resctrl.h"
 
 #define RESULT_FILE_NAME       "result_mbm"
-#define MAX_DIFF_PERCENT       5
+#define MAX_DIFF_PERCENT       8
 #define NUM_OF_RUNS            5
 
 static int
-- 
2.30.2

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