Re: [ANNOUNCE] virtbench now has xen support

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Jan Michael wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
> 
> thanks for your work. I tried your benchmark on my XEN installation.
> 
> <xm info>
> release                : 2.6.18-1.2835.slc4xen
> version                : #1 SMP Wed Nov 29 21:05:58 CET 2006
> machine                : i686
> nr_cpus                : 2
> nr_nodes               : 1
> sockets_per_node       : 2
> cores_per_socket       : 1
> threads_per_core       : 1
> cpu_mhz                : 2800
> hw_caps                : bfebfbff:20000000:00000000:00000180:0000641d
> total_memory           : 2047
> free_memory            : 1024
> xen_major              : 3
> xen_minor              : 0
> xen_extra              : .3-rc5-1.2835.s
> xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_32p
> xen_pagesize           : 4096
> platform_params        : virt_start=0xf5800000
> xen_changeset          : unavailable
> cc_compiler            : gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)
> cc_compile_by          : root
> cc_compile_date        : Wed Nov 29 20:56:00 CET 2006
> xend_config_format     : 2
> </xm info>
> 
> and ended up in the following error.   
> 
> <make error>
> [root@lxdev19 virtbench-bd8e67e50775]# make
> cc -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -DNUM_MACHINES=4 -o virtbench server.c 
> results.c stdrusty.c talloc.c micro/context-switch.c micro/cow.c 
> micro/exec.c micro/fork.c micro/host-net-bandwidth.c micro/int-syscall.c 
> micro/libc-syscall.c micro/memburn.c micro/pio.c micro/pte-update.c 
> micro/read-bandwidth.c micro/read-latency.c micro/vmcall.c 
> inter/bandwidth.c inter/pingpong.c inter/sendfile.c inter/udp-bandwidth.c
> micro/pte-update.c: In function `do_pte_update':
> micro/pte-update.c:45: error: too many arguments to function `mremap'
> make: *** [virtbench] Error 1
> </make error>

I've just pushed an update that should disable this test for older 
versions of glibc.  Would appreciate if you let me know whether this 
fixed your build.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> 
> So first thing I would like to know if my XEN installation is compatible 
> with your benchmark suite and if not which are the requirements?
> 
> Thank you for your help and support,
> 
>     Jan Michael
> 
> 
> On 15.05.2007, at 04:38, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>     I've been working on a set of easy-to-run benchmarks for hypervisor
>> optimization called virtbench, and the latest commit adds Xen support.
>>
>>     http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtbench
>>     http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtbench/?archive/tip.tar.bz2
>>
>>> From the README:
>>
>>     # Build the code
>>     make
>>     # Set the guest kernel location and maybe more
>>     vi ./SETTINGS
>>     # Run the benchmark (local mode)
>>     ./virtbench local
>>     # Run the benchmark (kvm mode)
>>     sudo ./virtbench kvm
>>     # Run the benchmark (Xen mode)
>>     sudo ./virtbench xen
>>     # Run the benchmark (lguest mode)
>>     sudo ./virtbench lguest
>>
>> Feedback welcome!
>> Rusty.
>>
>>
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