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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: fstests <fstests@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Any way to detect performance in a test case?
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:25:25 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190117022525.GC6173@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21520e24-bfa6-ba1e-c19c-b0e0e803f4b7@gmx.com>

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 09:30:19AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> On 2019/1/17 上午8:16, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:47:21PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> >> E.g. one operation should finish in 30s, but when it takes over 300s,
> >> it's definitely a big regression.
> >>
> >> But considering how many different hardware/VM the test may be run on,
> >> I'm not really confident if this is possible.
> > 
> > You can really only determine performance regressions by comparing
> > test runtime on kernels with the same features set run on the same
> > hardware. Hence you'll need to keep archives from all your test
> > machiens and configs and only compare between matching
> > configurations.
> 
> Thanks, this matches my current understanding of how the testsuite works.
> 
> It looks like such regression detection can only be implemented outside
> of fstests.

That's pretty much by design. Analysis of multiple test run results
and post-processing them is really not something that the test
harness does. The test harness really just runs the tests and
records the results....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-17  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-16  1:59 Any way to detect performance in a test case? Qu Wenruo
2019-01-16  3:57 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-16  4:47   ` Qu Wenruo
2019-01-16 17:33     ` Vijaychidambaram Velayudhan Pillai
2019-01-17  0:16     ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-17  1:30       ` Qu Wenruo
2019-01-17  2:25         ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2019-01-23  0:51           ` Qu Wenruo
2019-01-23  4:18             ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-23  5:08               ` Qu Wenruo

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