2.16.2.29. Yardstick Test Case Description TC078

Compute Performance
test case id OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC078_SPEC CPU 2006
metric compute-intensive performance
test purpose The purpose of TC078 is to evaluate the IaaS compute performance by using SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark. The SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark has several different ways to measure computer performance. One way is to measure how fast the computer completes a single task; this is called a speed measurement. Another way is to measure how many tasks computer can accomplish in a certain amount of time; this is called a throughput, capacity or rate measurement.
test tool

SPEC CPU 2006

The SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark is SPEC’s industry-standardized, CPU-intensive benchmark suite, stressing a system’s processor, memory subsystem and compiler. This benchmark suite includes the SPECint benchmarks and the SPECfp benchmarks. The SPECint 2006 benchmark contains 12 different enchmark tests and the SPECfp 2006 benchmark contains 19 different benchmark tests.

SPEC CPU 2006 is not always part of a Linux distribution. SPEC requires that users purchase a license and agree with their terms and conditions. For this test case, users must manually download cpu2006-1.2.iso from the SPEC website and save it under the yardstick/resources folder (e.g. /home/ opnfv/repos/yardstick/yardstick/resources/cpu2006-1.2.iso) SPEC CPU® 2006 benchmark is available for purchase via the SPEC order form (https://www.spec.org/order.html).
test description This test case uses SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark to measure compute-intensive performance of hosts.
configuration

file: spec_cpu.yaml (in the ‘samples’ directory)

benchmark_subset is set to int.

SLA is not available in this test case.
applicability

Test can be configured with different:

  • benchmark_subset - a subset of SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks to run;
  • SPECint_benchmark - a SPECint benchmark to run;
  • SPECint_benchmark - a SPECfp benchmark to run;
  • output_format - desired report format;
  • runspec_config - SPEC CPU2006 config file provided to the runspec binary;
  • runspec_iterations - the number of benchmark iterations to execute. For a reportable run, must be 3;
  • runspec_tune - tuning to use (base, peak, or all). For a reportable run, must be either base or all. Reportable runs do base first, then (optionally) peak;
  • runspec_size - size of input data to run (test, train, or ref). Reportable runs ensure that your binaries can produce correct results with the test and train workloads
usability This test case is used for executing SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark physical servers. The SPECint 2006 benchmark takes approximately 5 hours.
references

spec_cpu2006

ETSI-NFV-TST001
pre-test conditions
To run and install SPEC CPU2006, the following are required:
  • For SPECint2006: Both C99 and C++98 compilers;
  • For SPECfp2006: All three of C99, C++98 and Fortran-95 compilers;
  • At least 8GB of disk space availabile on the system.
test sequence description and expected result
step 1 cpu2006-1.2.iso has been saved under the yardstick/resources folder (e.g. /home/opnfv/repos/yardstick/yardstick/resources /cpu2006-1.2.iso). Additional, to use your custom runspec config file you can save it under the yardstick/resources/ files folder and specify the config file name in the runspec_config parameter.
step 2 Upload SPEC CPU2006 ISO to the target server and install SPEC CPU2006 via ansible.
step 3 Yardstick is connected with the target server by using ssh. If custom runspec config file is used, this file is copyied from yardstick to the target server via the ssh tunnel.
step 4 SPEC CPU2006 benchmark is invoked and SPEC CPU 2006 metrics are generated.
step 5 Text, HTML, CSV, PDF, and Configuration file outputs for the SPEC CPU 2006 metrics are fetch from the server and stored under /tmp/result folder.
step 6 uninstall SPEC CPU2006 and remove cpu2006-1.2.iso from the target server .
test verdict None. SPEC CPU2006 results are collected and stored.