On Friday, October 14, 2022 11:12 PM, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 6:06 AM, Vipin Sharma wrote:
> > Pin vCPUs to a host physical CPUs (pCPUs) in dirty_log_perf_test and
> > optionally pin the main application thread to a physical cpu if
> > provided. All tests based on perf_test_util framework can take advantage of
> it if needed.
> >
> > While at it, I changed atoi() to atoi_paranoid(), atoi_positive,
> > atoi_non_negative() in other tests, sorted command line options
> > alphabetically in dirty_log_perf_test, and added break between -e and
> > -g which was missed in original commit when -e was introduced.
>
> Just curious why not re-using the existing tools (e.g. taskset) to do the pinning?
>
> For example, with below changes:
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c b/tools/testing/se
> lftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
> index 9618b37c66f7..aac58d1acb3c 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
> @@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ void perf_test_start_vcpu_threads(int nr_vcpus,
> void (*vcpu_fn)(struct
> perf_test_vcpu_args *)) {
> int i;
> + char vcpu_name[5];
Typo, should be "vcpu_name[6]" here.
