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From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: den@openvz.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mreitz@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] simplebench/bench_block_job: drop caches before test run
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 20:30:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7d24c40-eb01-4df6-52c7-5f48aa30656f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210304101738.20248-9-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>

On 3/4/21 5:17 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> 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()
> 

Worth adding a conditional to allow "hot" or "cold" runs? nah?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-05  1:33 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 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] simplebench/bench_block_job: drop caches before test run Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-03-05  1:30   ` John Snow [this message]
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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