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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- <<This happens because _I_ choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
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