Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] qtest: base64 r/w and faster memset

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/05/2015 00:22, John Snow wrote:
> Adds new qtest protocol commands for base64 reads and writes,
> as well as a proper command for memset instead of faking it
> via write.
> 
> This improves the ahci-test performance on my machine from about
> 14 seconds to about ~3.5.
> 
> v3:
>  - Including a memset optimization.
> v2:
>  - Resend as non-RFC.
> 
> ==
> For convenience, this branch is available at:
> https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu.git branch qtest_protocol
> https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/tree/qtest_protocol
> 
> This version is tagged qtest_protocol-v3:
> https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/releases/tag/qtest_protocol-v3
> ==
> 
> John Snow (5):
>   qtest: allow arbitrarily long sends
>   qtest: Add base64 encoded read/write
>   qtest: add memset to qtest protocol
>   qtest: precompute hex nibs
>   libqos/ahci: Swap memread/write with bufread/write
> 
>  qtest.c             | 147 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  tests/ahci-test.c   |   8 +--
>  tests/libqos/ahci.c |   4 +-
>  tests/libqtest.c    |  56 ++++++++++++++++----
>  tests/libqtest.h    |  49 ++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 230 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> 

Looks good!

Paolo