[PATCH v5] mempool: test performance with larger bursts

[Morten Brørup]

> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2024 11.23
> 
> 20/02/2024 14:49, Morten Brørup:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> > >
> > > How the test duration is changed after this patch?
> >
> > On my test machine, the expanded test parameter set increased the
> duration of one test run from 20 minutes to 100 minutes.
> > Before the patch, all three test runs were always executed, i.e. a
> total duration of 60 minutes.
> >
> > In other words:
> > The expanded test parameter set increased the test run duration by
> factor five.
> > Introducing the ability to optionally only test with a specific
> number of lcores reduced the total test duration to a third.
> 
> That's a very long test.
> It would be interesting to find a way to make it shorter.

I tried looking into this, but I couldn't figure out how to pass parameters to a test, so I added the three variants with shorter tests, as suggested by Chengwen Feng.