On 16/10/2020 19.40, Andrew Jones wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 07:02:57PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 15/10/20 18:35, Sean Christopherson wrote: >>> The port80 test in particular is an absolute waste of time. >>> >> >> True, OTOH it was meant as a benchmark. I think we can just delete it >> or move it to vmexit. >> > > If you want to keep the code, but only run it manually sometimes, > then you can mark the test as nodefault. Please let's avoid that. Code that does not get run by default tends to bitrot. I suggest to decrease the amount of loops by default, and if somebody still wants to run this as a kind of benchmark, maybe the amount of loops could be made configurable? (i.e. so that you could control it via an argv[] parameter?) Thomas