Allow re-run of the shotgun jobs to reduce false positive

The false positive rate is about 10-20 % when evaluating shotgun results
from a single run. Attempt to reduce the false positive rate by allowing
a re-run of failed jobs.

While there is a slight risk that barely noticable decreases in
performance might slip by more easily in MRs, they'd still likely pop up
during nightly or pre-release testing.

Also increase the tolerance threshold for DoH latency comparisons, as
those tests often experience increased jitter in the tail end latencies.

(cherry picked from commit 5eab352478623eef57008a274c3a6505d9c76390)

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2a5f0cfed741c00e62e61f6ecf818125d259203a..266182403614501226bf8efcc5394f746039a5b7 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ stages:
         SHOTGUN_ROUNDS: 3
     - &shotgun_rule_other
       if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE =~ /^(api|pipeline|schedule|trigger|web)$/'
+  # when using data from a single run, the overall instability of the results
+  # causes quite high false positive rate, rerun the test to attemp to reduce those
+  retry: 1
   script:
     - if [ -z "$BASELINE" ]; then export BASELINE=$BIND_BASELINE_VERSION; fi  # this dotenv variable can't be set in the rules section, because rules are evaluated before any jobs run
     - PIPELINE_ID=$(curl -s -X POST --fail
@@ -1607,9 +1610,6 @@ respdiff-third-party:
 
 # Performance tests
 
-# Run shotgun:udp right away, but delay other shotgun jobs sligthly in order to
-# allow re-use of the built container image. Otherwise, the jobs would do the
-# same builds in parallel rather than re-use the already built image.
 shotgun:udp:
   <<: *shotgun_job
   variables:
@@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@ shotgun:doh-get:
   variables:
     SHOTGUN_SCENARIO: doh-get
     SHOTGUN_TRAFFIC_MULTIPLIER: 3
-    SHOTGUN_EVAL_THRESHOLD_LATENCY_PCTL_MAX: 0.3  # bump from the default due to increased tail-end jitter
+    SHOTGUN_EVAL_THRESHOLD_LATENCY_PCTL_MAX: 0.4  # bump from the default due to increased tail-end jitter
   rules: *shotgun_rules_manual_mr
 
 .stress-test: &stress_test