Automated storage benchmarks for embedded storage

Registered by Paul McKenney

Define benchmark(s) for SD and eMMC storage for root-filesystem usage, possibly based on IOZone. These must account for wear effects, which cause system performance to decrease as the cumulative number of write operations increases. Such benchmarks also must be automated.

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
Paul McKenney
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
None
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
None
Definition:
Obsolete
Series goal:
Accepted for 11.05
Implementation:
Started
Milestone target:
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Started by
Paul McKenney
Completed by
Deepak Saxena

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Using and existing benchmarking framework such as IOZone, create a benchmark for a root-filesystem workload.
Implement or use existing benchmarking that runs on a block device level to avoid the affect of the page cache. This will give more precise numbers when optimizing the low level memory frameworks such as the mmc framework and driver.
Using existing tooling, automate extracting from system logs the storage-wait-time contribution to system boot.
Analyze results, accounting for wear effects (e.g., fudge factor on results based on cumulative number of writes).
Script running benchmark on various rootable filesystems (for example, ext2/3/4 and/or btrfs).
Test robustness. Reset the power while performing write operations, reboot and verify the filesystem.

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