[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t 06/10] gem_wsim: Support scaling workload batch durations

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Jun 18 08:07:45 UTC 2020


Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2020-06-18 09:01:10)
> 
> On 17/06/2020 17:22, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2020-06-17 17:01:16)
> >> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> >>
> >> -f <float> on the command line can be used to scale batch buffer durations
> >> in all parsed workloads.
> > 
> > But not the period?
> 
> I had it scale both at some point but then it ended up more useful to 
> only do batches. So I could stuff more clients in before saturation. I 
> suppose that's an argument to have both independently controlled.

I was moreover trying to work out why one would want to. I was guessing
shrink the duration and add more clients, and there you would the
independent control, but if you just shrank the duration for a fixed
number of clients, you would also want to shrink the period.
-Chris


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