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@ 2020-08-04 23:53 Carlos O'Donell
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commit 50a8dd367e305bb6c6146c564fd48c193cc94069
Author: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>
Date:   Tue Aug 4 13:27:39 2020 +0200

    benchtests/README update.
    
    Improve documentation of the 'name' directive and the 'workload' mechanism.
    
    Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>

Diff:
---
 benchtests/README | 20 ++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/benchtests/README b/benchtests/README
index f440f3295a..44736d7e63 100644
--- a/benchtests/README
+++ b/benchtests/README
@@ -125,17 +125,25 @@ math functions perform computations at different levels of precision (64-bit vs
 performance of these functions.  One could separate inputs for these domains in
 the same file by using the `name' directive that looks something like this:
 
-  ##name: 240bit
+  ##name: 240bits
 
-See the pow-inputs file for an example of what such a partitioned input file
-would look like.
+All inputs after the ##name: 240bits directive and until the next `name'
+directive (or the end of file) are part of the "240bits" benchmark and
+will be output separately in benchtests/bench.out.  See the pow-inputs file
+for an example of what such a partitioned input file would look like.
 
-It is also possible to measure throughput of a (partial) trace extracted from
-a real workload.  In this case the whole trace is iterated over multiple times
-rather than repeating every input multiple times.  This can be done via:
+It is also possible to measure latency and reciprocal throughput of a
+(partial) trace extracted from a real workload.  In this case the whole trace
+is iterated over multiple times rather than repeating every input multiple
+times.  This can be done via:
 
   ##name: workload-<name>
 
+where <name> is simply used to distinguish between different traces in the
+same file.  To create such a trace, you can simply extract using printf()
+values uses for a specific application, or generate random values in some
+interval.  See the expf-inputs file for an example of this workload mechanism.
+
 Benchmark Sets:
 ==============


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