Performance analysis, tools and experiments

May coming to a close, useful to take stock of where analysis is at as well as next steps.

I was cycling a good portion of May. The other parts were most focused on adding benchmark analysis needed for some Phoronix benchmark reviews and also some incremental tool additions.

As May comes to a close, following are done

1. First level analysis of ~60 workloads with web pages created for each
2. Phoronix published 10 articles that included benchmark runs. I went through workloads for these and created a chart of the Phoronix article. Focus on CPU, skipping graphics and some areas like filesystem performance benchmarks.
3. Added “topdown” tool to show first and second level metrics and then selected metrics that folded into the third level
4. Updated wspy performance metrics

This leaves multiple areas for further emphasis over the next month:

1. Add some more “real world” codes to analyze. Top candidates are gromacs or openfoam
2. Keep up with incremental phoronix articles including new benchmarks
3. Look at creating a “topdown” that gives some key metrics on AMD Ryzen
4. wspy breadth
   1. complete memstats and netstats
   2. handle nmi timer
5. Architecture: measurements on tx1?
6. Cleanups: e.g. create updated Phoronix inventory list, add some “about this graph”, update tests done early when tools didn’t create as much information