Re: [Qemu-devel] Benchmarking linux-user performance

2017-03-16 Thread Emilio G. Cota
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 17:06:57 +, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Emilio G. Cota (c...@braap.org) wrote: > > It seems that a good benchmark to take translation overhead into account > > would be gcc/perlbench from SPEC (see [1]; ~20% of exec time is spent > > on translation). Unfortunately,

Re: [Qemu-devel] Benchmarking linux-user performance

2017-03-14 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Emilio G. Cota (c...@braap.org) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:45:33 +, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > * Emilio G. Cota (c...@braap.org) wrote: > > > https://github.com/cota/dbt-bench > > > I'm using NBench because (1) it's just a few files and they take > > > very little time to ru

Re: [Qemu-devel] Benchmarking linux-user performance

2017-03-11 Thread Peter Maydell
On 11 March 2017 at 03:25, Emilio G. Cota wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:48:31 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> Given the scale on the LHS is from 1.74 to 1.88 my guess is that the >> variation is in large part noise and the major thing is "our fp >> performance is bounded by softfloat, which d

Re: [Qemu-devel] Benchmarking linux-user performance

2017-03-10 Thread Emilio G. Cota
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:48:31 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 10 March 2017 at 12:45, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > * Emilio G. Cota (c...@braap.org) wrote: > >> x86_64 NBench Floating Point Performance > >> Host: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90

Re: [Qemu-devel] Benchmarking linux-user performance

2017-03-10 Thread Emilio G. Cota
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:45:33 +, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Emilio G. Cota (c...@braap.org) wrote: > > https://github.com/cota/dbt-bench > > I'm using NBench because (1) it's just a few files and they take > > very little time to run (~5min per QEMU version, if performance > > on th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Benchmarking linux-user performance

2017-03-10 Thread Peter Maydell
On 10 March 2017 at 12:45, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Emilio G. Cota (c...@braap.org) wrote: >> x86_64 NBench Floating Point Performance >> Host: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz >> >> 1.88 +-+-+---+--+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+--

Re: [Qemu-devel] Benchmarking linux-user performance

2017-03-10 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Emilio G. Cota (c...@braap.org) wrote: > Hi all, > > Inspired by SimBench[1], I have written a set of scripts ("DBT-bench") > to easily obtain and plot performance numbers for linux-user. > > The (Perl) scripts are available here: > https://github.com/cota/dbt-bench > [ It's better to clone w

[Qemu-devel] Benchmarking linux-user performance

2017-03-09 Thread Emilio G. Cota
Hi all, Inspired by SimBench[1], I have written a set of scripts ("DBT-bench") to easily obtain and plot performance numbers for linux-user. The (Perl) scripts are available here: https://github.com/cota/dbt-bench [ It's better to clone with --recursive because the benchmarks (NBench) are pulle