Re: [MirageOS-devel] Benchmarking tools on Mirage

[Filipe Manco <filipe.manco@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Anil

Good point. I'll look into that, thanks.

Filipe

On 10-12-2015 11:24, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> Hi Filipe,
>
> If it's an existing tool, it might be worth trying to compile it as a unikernel 
> via rumprun as well...
>
> Anil
>
> > On 10 Dec 2015, at 10:16, Filipe Manco <filipe.manco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Thank you for the pointers.
> >
> > I was looking for something like a port of the stress tool (or similar) to an 
> > unikernel. I'll take a look at this stuff and figure if we can reuse some of 
> > it, otherwise we might just port some tool to minios ourselves.
> >
> > Best
> > Filipe
> >
> > On 07-12-2015 19:07, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> > > On 3 Dec 2015, at 14:01, Filipe Manco <Filipe.Manco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Hi Anil
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking for benchmarking utilities implemented on top of unikernels, for 
> > > > some benchmarking work we're doing here at NEC. We're looking for something 
> > > > that is able to do network and block IO, CPU and memory utilization tests, etc. 
> > > > Something similar to stress. Is there something implemented on top of Mirage 
> > > > that you know about?
> > > Hi Filipe,
> > >
> > > CCing the devel list, as there have been a number of small tools over the
> > > years, but the status of each varies.
> > >
> > > I'm aware of:
> > >
> > > - individual apps for papers (like Jitsu/NSDI, ASPLOS) which are captured
> > >    in their respective repositories but frozen to that version.
> > > - library test cases that exist (e.g. in Irmin) that stress that particular
> > >    subsystem.
> > > - Jon Ludlam from Citrix built some Xen-specific unikernels that could
> > >    run under XenRT, but not sure if this is still run or maintained.
> > >
> > > Having some focussed tests on network and block performance in particular
> > > would be valuable and quite easy to setup.  There's a really good
> > > benchmarking suite in Core_bench that does multivariate analysis:
> > > https://blogs.janestreet.com/core_bench-micro-benchmarking-for-ocaml/
> > >
> > > -anil
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