Re: [PATCH 1/5] KVM: selftests: Factor code out of demand_paging_test

From: Peter Xu
Date: Mon Nov 02 2020 - 16:24:05 EST


On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 04:37:29PM -0700, Ben Gardon wrote:
> Much of the code in demand_paging_test can be reused by other, similar
> multi-vCPU-memory-touching-perfromance-tests. Factor that common code
> out for reuse.
>
> No functional change expected.

Is there explicit reason to put the common code in a header rather than
perf_test_util.c? No strong opinion on this especially this is test code,
just curious. Since iiuc .c file is still preferred for things like this.

>
> This series was tested by running the following invocations on an Intel
> Skylake machine:
> dirty_log_perf_test -b 20m -i 100 -v 64
> dirty_log_perf_test -b 20g -i 5 -v 4
> dirty_log_perf_test -b 4g -i 5 -v 32
> demand_paging_test -b 20m -v 64
> demand_paging_test -b 20g -v 4
> demand_paging_test -b 4g -v 32
> All behaved as expected.

May move this chunk to the cover letter to avoid keeping it in every commit
(btw, you mentioned "this series" but I feel like you meant "you verified that
after applying each of the commits").

Thanks,

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Peter Xu