1422451 - move talos xperf from win7 hardware to VM

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Talos, enhancement)

Description

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

talos xperf measures file and network IO, not time- we can run this on any machine.  To simplify our requirements moving to new hardware, lets get xperf migrated to a VM.

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

Attachment: run xperf on win7-vm

this is easier than I thought.

and earlier try push:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=3bcb18f46f9a791702389098f99f8711a57b3172

and a try push with this finalized patch:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=45b26bdaa4ee5676984371817fe7c6a626628051

Comment 2

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

Attachment: run xperf on win7-vm instead of hardware

here is a try push:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=ed67009b0f239e2fb2ffd94655d03dc1b26562cd

Comment 3

[Robert Wood [:rwood]]

Comment on attachment 8933889 [details] [diff] [review]
run xperf on win7-vm instead of hardware

LGTM

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/23e1da446559
move talos xperf from win7 hardware to VM. r=rwood

Comment 5

[Bogdan Tara[:bogdan_tara | bogdant]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/23e1da446559

Comment 6

[Ionuț Goldan [:igoldan]]

This updated our tp5n nonmain_normal baselines:

== Change summary for alert #10867 (as of Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:11:41 GMT) ==

Improvements:

 48%  tp5n nonmain_normal_netio windows7-32 pgo e10s     156,876,812.25 -> 81,215,827.75
 47%  tp5n nonmain_normal_netio windows7-32 opt e10s     160,984,081.75 -> 84,959,646.50
  3%  tp5n nonmain_normal_fileio windows7-32 opt e10s    368,390,010.62 -> 356,990,413.82

For up to date results, see: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perf.html#/alerts?id=10867