[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] add a storage I/O benchmark test suite

[Randy MacLeod]

On 10/19/18 10:54 AM, Anders Roxell wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell at linaro.org>
> ---
>   .../recipes-benchmark/s-suite/s-suite_git.bb  | 30 +++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/s-suite/s-suite_git.bb
> 
> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/s-suite/s-suite_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/s-suite/s-suite_git.bb
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..77d172814065
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/s-suite/s-suite_git.bb
> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> +SUMMARY = "Small collection of benchmarks for storage I/O"
> +LICENSE = "GPLv2"
> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b529aaa6a0c50f15d29f89609b5c22f3"
> +
> +SRCREV = "79698f645bfb28d0d966484ddad3a1efb562246d"
> +PV = "0.0+git${SRCPV}"
> +SRC_URI = "git://github.com/Algodev-github/S.git;protocol=https;branch=master"
> +
> +S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
> +
> +# installing in /opt/S-suite since the package has
> +# dependencies to the directory structure.
> +do_install() {
> +    install -d ${D}/opt/S-suite
> +    for i in $(find ${S}/* -type d); do
> +        install -d ${D}/opt/S-suite/$(basename $i)
> +        install -m0755 -p ${S}/$(basename $i)/* ${D}/opt/S-suite/$(basename $i)
> +    done
> +
> +    install -m0755 ${S}/config_params.sh ${D}/opt/S-suite
> +    install -m0755 ${S}/def_config_params.sh ${D}/opt/S-suite
> +}
> +
> +RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash bc coreutils gawk g++ gcc fio libaio libaio-dev sysstat"
> +
> +FILES_${PN} = "/opt/S-suite/"
> +
> +# added to INSANE_SKIP since s-suite have an runtime
> +# dependency (RDEPENDS) on libaio-dev.
> +INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "dev-deps"
> 

Thanks for the submission but from:

    https://github.com/Algodev-github/S

    "These benchmarks have been written just for internal use,
     and are more a yard than a well-finished work."


That doesn't lead to a lot of confidence that these suite will
be maintained for years. What's the value to meta-oe users to add
this recipe compared to something that has been around for years
if not decades such as Bonnie++:
    https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/864/


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# Randy MacLeod
# Wind River Linux