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From: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM test: Add new subtest iozone_windows
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 07:28:31 -0300
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On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 13:17 +0300, Michael Goldish wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 01:03 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> > Following the new IOzone postprocessing changes, add a new
> > KVM subtest iozone_windows, which takes advantage of the
> > fact that there's a windows build for the test, so we can
> > ship it on winutils.iso and run it, providing this way
> > the ability to track IO performance for windows guests also.
> > The new test imports the postprocessing library directly
> > from iozone, so it can postprocess the results right after
> > the benchmark is finished on the windows guest.
> > 
> > I'll update winutils.iso on the download page soon.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  client/tests/kvm/tests/iozone_windows.py |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample   |    7 ++++-
> >  2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 client/tests/kvm/tests/iozone_windows.py
> > 
> > diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/tests/iozone_windows.py b/client/tests/kvm/tests/iozone_windows.py
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..86ec2c4
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/client/tests/kvm/tests/iozone_windows.py
> > @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
> > +import logging, time, os
> > +from autotest_lib.client.common_lib import error
> > +from autotest_lib.client.bin import utils
> > +from autotest_lib.client.tests.iozone import postprocessing
> > +import kvm_subprocess, kvm_test_utils, kvm_utils
> > +
> > +
> > +def run_iozone_windows(test, params, env):
> > +    """
> > +    Run IOzone for windows on a windows guest:
> > +    1) Log into a guest
> > +    2) Execute the IOzone test contained in the winutils.iso
> > +    3) Get results
> > +    4) Postprocess it with the IOzone postprocessing module
> > +
> > +    @param test: kvm test object
> > +    @param params: Dictionary with the test parameters
> > +    @param env: Dictionary with test environment.
> > +    """
> > +    vm = kvm_test_utils.get_living_vm(env, params.get("main_vm"))
> > +    session = kvm_test_utils.wait_for_login(vm)
> > +    results_path = os.path.join(test.resultsdir,
> > +                                'raw_output_%s' % test.iteration)
> > +    analysisdir = os.path.join(test.resultsdir, 'analysis_%s' % test.iteration)
> > +
> > +    # Run IOzone and record its results
> > +    c = command=params.get("iozone_cmd")
> 
> 'command=' looks unnecessary here.

Funny, only realized that I left this variable now that you've
mentioned :) Will fix it

> > +    t = int(params.get("iozone_timeout"))
> > +    logging.info("Running IOzone command on guest, timeout %ss", t)
> > +    results = session.get_command_output(command=c, timeout=t)
> 
> Does IOzone produce any output while it's running or only when it's
> done?  If the former is true, we might want to print that output as it's
> being produced:
> 
> results = session.get_command_output(command=c, timeout=t,
> print_func=logging.debug)

Good point, it generates output while it's running, that just haven't
occurred to me.

Fixed all in r4467

http://autotest.kernel.org/changeset/4467

Thanks!