[RFC] Performance test framework

[Alexandros Frantzis]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Alan Griffiths wrote:
> On 19/06/15 11:52, Alan Griffiths wrote:
> > On 19/06/15 11:22, Alexandros Frantzis wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> there have recently been a few occasions where we wanted to experiment with
> >> performance improvements, but lacked a way to easily measure their effect.
> >> There have also been a few occasions where different implementations of the
> >> (supposedly) same performance test came up with different results. In light of
> >> these issues, it would be helpful to have a common performance test framework,
> >> to make it easy to create and share performance tests scenarios.
> >
> > +1
> ...
> > I'd say try the python approach and see if we hit limits.
> 
> Is there any need to capture requirements? Or do we have a few "current"
> test scenarios to try automating?

I have a basic input-to-frame latency test in mind, and I would like to
hear about other scenarios that people had to actually measure in the
past, or think they will need to measure in the near future.