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From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
To: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, den@openvz.org, vsementsov@virtuozzo.com,
	mreitz@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 8/8] simplebench/bench_block_job: drop caches before test run
Date: Thu,  4 Mar 2021 13:17:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210304101738.20248-9-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210304101738.20248-1-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>

It probably may improve reliability of results when testing in cached
mode.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
---
 scripts/simplebench/bench_block_job.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/simplebench/bench_block_job.py b/scripts/simplebench/bench_block_job.py
index 4f03c12169..fa45ad2655 100755
--- a/scripts/simplebench/bench_block_job.py
+++ b/scripts/simplebench/bench_block_job.py
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ def bench_block_job(cmd, cmd_args, qemu_args):
         return {'error': 'qemu failed: ' + str(vm.get_log())}
 
     try:
+        subprocess.run('sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches', shell=True,
+                       check=True)
         res = vm.qmp(cmd, **cmd_args)
         if res != {'return': {}}:
             vm.shutdown()
-- 
2.29.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-04 10:17 [PATCH v2 0/8] simplebench improvements Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-04 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] simplebench: bench_one(): add slow_limit argument Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05  1:22   ` John Snow
2021-03-05  9:03     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05 16:25       ` John Snow
2021-03-04 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] simplebench: bench_one(): support count=1 Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05  1:23   ` John Snow
2021-03-04 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] simplebench/bench-backup: add --compressed option Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-04 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] simplebench/bench-backup: add target-cache argument Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05  1:50   ` John Snow
2021-03-04 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] simplebench/bench_block_job: handle error in BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05  1:47   ` John Snow
2021-03-04 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] simplebench/bench-backup: support qcow2 source files Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05  1:43   ` John Snow
2021-03-04 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] simplebench/bench-backup: add --count and --no-initial-run Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05  1:37   ` John Snow
2021-03-05  9:09     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-04 10:17 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy [this message]
2021-03-05  1:30   ` [PATCH v2 8/8] simplebench/bench_block_job: drop caches before test run John Snow
2021-03-05  9:11     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05 16:30       ` John Snow
2021-03-05 16:50         ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05 16:54           ` John Snow
2021-03-04 10:44 ` [PATCH v2 9/8] MAINTAINERS: update Benchmark util: add git tree Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy

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