diff --git a/gate/post_test_perf_check.sh b/gate/post_test_perf_check.sh
index 3d3ea8447..5037d9716 100755
--- a/gate/post_test_perf_check.sh
+++ b/gate/post_test_perf_check.sh
@@ -5,31 +5,35 @@ EXPLANATION="
 This output combines output from placeload with timing information
 gathered via curl. The placeload output is the current maximum
 microversion of placement followed by an encoded representation of
-what it has done. Lowercase 'r', 'i', and 'a' indicate successful
-creation of a resource provider, inventory and aggregate. If
-there are upper case versions of any of those letters, a failure
+what it has done. Lowercase 'r', 'i', 'a', and 't' indicate successful
+creation of a resource provider and setting inventory, aggregates, and
+traits on that resource provider.
+
+If there are upper case versions of any of those letters, a failure
 happened for a single request. The letter will be followed by the
 HTTP status code and the resource provider uuid. These can be used
 to find the relevant entry in logs/screen-placement-api.txt.gz.
 
 Note that placeload does not exit with an error code when this
 happens. It merely reports and moves on. Under correct circumstances
-the right output is a long string of 3000 characters containing
-'r', 'i', 'a' in random order (because async).
+the right output is a long string of 4000 characters containing
+'r', 'i', 'a', 't' in random order (because async).
 
 After that are three aggregate uuids, and then the output
 of two timed curl requests.
 
 If no timed requests are present it means that the expected number
-of resource providers was not created. At this time, only resource
-providers are counted, not whether they have inventory or aggregates.
+of resource providers were not created. At this time, only resource
+providers are counted, not whether they have the correct inventory,
+aggregates, or traits.
 
 "
 
 
 # This aggregate uuid is a static value in placeload.
 AGGREGATE="14a5c8a3-5a99-4e8f-88be-00d85fcb1c17"
-PLACEMENT_QUERY="resources=VCPU:1,DISK_GB:10,MEMORY_MB:256&member_of=${AGGREGATE}"
+TRAIT="HW_CPU_X86_AVX2"
+PLACEMENT_QUERY="resources=VCPU:1,DISK_GB:10,MEMORY_MB:256&member_of=${AGGREGATE}&required=${TRAIT}"
 
 BASE=${BASE:-/opt/stack}
 source ${BASE}/new/devstack/functions
@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@ function check_placement {
     . .placeload/bin/activate
 
     # install placeload
-    pip install 'placeload==0.2.2'
+    pip install 'placeload==0.3.0'
 
     # Turn off keystone auth
     iniset -sudo $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT auth_strategy noauth2