[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] osmtest: Add SA get PathRecord stress test

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 10:32 Mon 21 Sep     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > > +             goto Exit;
> > > > +     }
> > >
> > > It is not really "stress" testing, just pinging.
> > >
> > >
> > > So are the other tests (additionally those use RMPP). Isn't repetitive
> > > pinging a stress of a kind ?
> >
> > No. "Stress" test assumes full load.
> 
> 
> What do you mean full load ?

What is not clear "full" or "load"?

> > In "ping" case the only one thread
> > is loaded and in only request processing time.
> >
> 
> I'm not following what you mean by this.

Really? How this ping test's timeline looks?

(1) client sends one request, (2) it travels to a server, (3) server
processes it and replies, (4) the response travels to client, (5) client
gets it and continue from beginning. Ok? The server works only in (3)
and does nothing in other test stages.

> > > Same level of description as other tests. They all could be made more
> > > descriptive.
> >
> > Agree. And we need to start somewhere.
> >
> 
> Separate patch ?

No problem.

Sasha