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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tools/perf-bench: Add basic syscall benchmark
Em Thu, May 14, 2020 at 03:39:42PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf escreveu:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:17:47AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > On Thu, 07 Mar 2019, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > You forgot to update tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt, and please
> > > take a look at tools/perf/util/pmu.c convert_scale() to see how to save
> > > the current locale, set the one you want, then restore the previous one,
> > > so that at the end of this benchmark the environment is back to where it
> > > was.
> >
> > Here's an updated version with the corresponding docs, but I removed the
> > setlocale() - doesn't seem worth it; I hope Mel has no strong objection.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -------8<----------------------------------------------------------
> > [PATCH v2] tools/perf-bench: Add basic syscall benchmark
> >
> > The usefulness of having a standard way of testing syscall performance
> > has come up from time to time[0]. Furthermore, some of our testing
> > machinery (such as 'mmtests') already makes use of a simplified version
> > of the microbenchmark. This patch mainly takes the same idea to measure
> > syscall throughput compatible with 'perf-bench' via getppid(2), yet
> > without any of the additional template stuff from Ingo's version (based
> > on numa.c). The code is identical to what mmtests uses.
> >
> > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160201074156.GA27156@gmail.com/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
>
> It would be nice to see this merged. I posted something very similar
> back in 2016.

So, I took this as an Acked-by: Josh, and the previous "no objection"
from Mel as well, its now in my tmp.perf/core branch while it, together
with other stuff goes thru build tests + 'perf test'.

Sorry for the long delay in processing it, I shoudl've noticed that my
review comments were addressed in v2.

- Arnaldo

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