On 8/24/20 11:36 AM, Ján Tomko wrote:
s/capsmoc.c/capsmock/
On a Monday in 2020, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
Previous patch handled the runtime case where a non-x86 host is
fetching /proc/cpuinfo data for a microcode info that we know
it doesn't exist. This change alone speeded everything by a
bit for non-x86, but there is at least one major culprit left.
qemuxml2argvtest does several arch-specific tests, and a good
chunk of them are x86 exclusive. This means that 'hostArch'
will be seen as x86 for these tests, even when running in
non-x86 hosts. In a Power 9 server with 128 CPUs, qemuxmlargvtest
*qemuxml2argvtest
takes 298 seconds to complete in average, and 'perf record'
indicates that 95% of the time is spent in
virHostCPUGetMicrocodeVersion().
No surprise, we call it 23448 times.
This patch mocks virHostCPUGetMicrocodeVersion() to always return
0 in the tests, avoiding /proc/cpuinfo reads. This will make all
tests behave arch-agnostic, and the microcode value being 0 has no
impact on any existing test.
This is a CI speed across the board for all archs, including x86,
given that we're not reading /proc/cpuinfo in the tests. For
a Thinkpad T480 laptop with 8 Intel i7 CPUs, qemuxml2argvtest
went from 15.50 sec to 12.50 seconds. The performance gain is even
more noticeable for huge servers with lots of CPUs. For the
Power 9 server mentioned above, this patch speeds qemuxml2argvtest
to 9 seconds, down from 298 sec.
I assume the speedup for Power is measured for the whole series, not
just for this patch.
Yes, for the whole series, for both Power and my x86 laptop. Should've make
it clearer in the commit msg.
Thanks,
DHB
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@xxxxxxxxx>
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src/util/virhostcpu.h | 3 ++-
tests/domaincapsmock.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Jano
