Free content traces for benchmarking
Part of our benchmarking efforts involve evaluating real application behavior in addition to synthetic tests. However, not all content is suitable for packaging and distribution due to images, sounds or other pieces of data that it is difficult or not possible to get redistribution rights for. It would be good to have more traces that are based on free content, but still exercise the system.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Jesse Barker
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Alexandros Frantzis
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Proposed for trunk
- Implementation:
-
Informational
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Alexandros Frantzis
- Completed by
- Alexandros Frantzis
Whiteboard
Summit session notes:
* SVG drawing (eg cairo, qt)
* Inkscape
* Websites with svg
* Websites with canvas
* Qt may need non trivial tracing engine changes
* GLES2 traces
* Screensavers? (need porting)
* Games (need porting too)
* Example content from GLES2 game engines.
* use benchmark plugin of compiz to acquire traces
* Caveats
* Licensing concerns
* Memory consumption for playback
* Improve memory consumption in qt tracing engine
* Tools for automated capture of traces
* Improve documentation regarding trace capture and playback
Work items (tentative)
[ACTION]: Capture inkscape svg drawing traces
[ACTION]: Capture traces from SVG heavy websites
[ACTION]: Investigate qt tracing engine improvements (pixmap draws, memory consumption)
[ACTION]: Investigate if we can use example content from free GLES2 game engines as material
for tracing.
[ACTION]: Write up document describing how to capture and replay traces (cairo, qt. gles2)
[ACTION]: Investigate if/how we can acquire GLES2 data sets from universities to use for traces
[ACTION]: Decide on GLES2 tracing app to use (may need to wait for later in the cycle, after we have made improvements to the tools).
[ACTION]: Check OglPerf benchmark license - chunsang
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
