Re: [PATCH v5] mempool: test performance with larger bursts

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 11:38:34AM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2024 11.23
> > 
> > 20/02/2024 14:49, Morten Brørup:
> > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]
> > > >
> > > > How the test duration is changed after this patch?
> > >
> > > On my test machine, the expanded test parameter set increased the
> > duration of one test run from 20 minutes to 100 minutes.
> > > Before the patch, all three test runs were always executed, i.e. a
> > total duration of 60 minutes.
> > >
> > > In other words:
> > > The expanded test parameter set increased the test run duration by
> > factor five.
> > > Introducing the ability to optionally only test with a specific
> > number of lcores reduced the total test duration to a third.
> > 
> > That's a very long test.
> > It would be interesting to find a way to make it shorter.
> 
> I tried looking into this, but I couldn't figure out how to pass parameters to a test, so I added the three variants with shorter tests, as suggested by Chengwen Feng.
> 

It's not currently possible, but:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20231215130656.247582-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com/

/Bruce