On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 05:54:42PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote: > On 2021/7/2 17:04, Jason Wang wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > >> I understand that you guys like to see a working testcase of virtio. > >> I would love to do that if I have the time and knowledge of virtio, > >> But I do not think I have the time and I am familiar enough with > >> virtio to fix that now. > > > > > > So ringtest is used for bench-marking the ring performance for different format. Virtio is only one of the supported ring format, ptr ring is another. Wrappers were used to reuse the same test logic. > > > > Though you may see host/guest in the test, it's in fact done via two processes. > > > > We need figure out: > > > > 1) why the current ringtest.c does not fit for your requirement (it has SPSC test) > > There is MPSC case used by pfifo_fast, it make more sense to use a separate selftest > for ptr_ring as ptr_ring has been used by various subsystems. > > > > 2) why can't we tweak the ptr_ring.c to be used by both ring_test and your benchmark > > Actually that is what I do in this patch, move the specific part related to ptr_ring > to ptr_ring_test.h. When the virtio testing is refactored to work, it can reuse the > abstract layer in ptr_ring_test.h too. Sounds good. But that refactoring will be up to you as a contributor. > > > > If neither of the above work, we can invent new ptr_ring infrastructure under tests/ > > > > Thanks > > > > > >> > >> > > > > . > >
