Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/49] xen: add core scheduling support

[Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 09:16 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 11/04/2019 02:34, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > Also, it's Phoronix again. I don't especially love it, but I'm
> > still
> > working on convincing our own internal automated benchmarking tool
> > (which I like a lot more :-) ) to be a good friend of Xen. :-P
> 
> I think the Phoronix tests as such are not that bad, its the way they
> are used by Phoronix which is completely idiotic.
> 
Sure, that is the main problem.

About the suite itself, the fact that it is kind of a black box, can be
a very good thing, but also a not so good one.

Opaqueness is, AFAIUI, among its design goals, so I can't possibly
complain about that. And in fact, that is what makes it so easy and
quick to play with it. :-)

If you want to tweak the configuration of a benchmark, or change how
they're run, beside the config options that are pre-defined for each
benchmark, (e.g., do stuff like adding `numactl blabla` "in front" of
some), that is a lot less obvious or easy. And yes, this is somewhat
the case for most, if not all, the benchmarking suite, but I find
Phoronix makes this _particularly_ tricky.

Anyway... :-D :-D

Regards
-- 
Dario Faggioli, Ph.D
http://about.me/dario.faggioli
Virtualization Software Engineer
SUSE Labs, SUSE https://www.suse.com/
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