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[v6] scripts/simplebench: compare write request performance

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Series [v6] scripts/simplebench: compare write request performance | expand

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Andrey Shinkevich July 14, 2020, 3:50 p.m. UTC
The script 'bench_write_req.py' allows comparing performances of write
request for two qemu-img binary files.
An example with (qemu-img binary 1) and without (qemu-img binary 2) the
applied patch "qcow2: skip writing zero buffers to empty COW areas"
(git commit ID: c8bb23cbdbe32f5) has the following results:

SSD:
----------------  -------------------  -------------------
                  <qemu-img binary 1>  <qemu-img binary 2>
<cluster front>   0.10 +- 0.00         8.16 +- 0.65
<cluster middle>  0.10 +- 0.00         7.37 +- 1.10
<cross cluster>   7.40 +- 1.08         21.97 +- 4.19
<cluster 64K>     2.14 +- 0.94         8.48 +- 1.66
----------------  -------------------  -------------------
HDD:
----------------  -------------------  -------------------
                  <qemu-img binary 1>  <qemu-img binary 2>
<cluster front>   2.30 +- 0.01         6.19 +- 0.06
<cluster middle>  2.20 +- 0.09         6.20 +- 0.06
<cross cluster>   8.32 +- 0.16         8.26 +- 0.14
<cluster 64K>     8.20 +- 0.05         6.26 +- 0.10
----------------  -------------------  -------------------

Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
---
 scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py | 170 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 170 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py

Comments

Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy July 14, 2020, 4:05 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Eduardo!

Could you please stage this in your branch, to be pulled for 5.2 later?

14.07.2020 18:50, Andrey Shinkevich wrote:
> The script 'bench_write_req.py' allows comparing performances of write
> request for two qemu-img binary files.
> An example with (qemu-img binary 1) and without (qemu-img binary 2) the
> applied patch "qcow2: skip writing zero buffers to empty COW areas"
> (git commit ID: c8bb23cbdbe32f5) has the following results:
> 
> SSD:
> ----------------  -------------------  -------------------
>                    <qemu-img binary 1>  <qemu-img binary 2>
> <cluster front>   0.10 +- 0.00         8.16 +- 0.65
> <cluster middle>  0.10 +- 0.00         7.37 +- 1.10
> <cross cluster>   7.40 +- 1.08         21.97 +- 4.19
> <cluster 64K>     2.14 +- 0.94         8.48 +- 1.66
> ----------------  -------------------  -------------------
> HDD:
> ----------------  -------------------  -------------------
>                    <qemu-img binary 1>  <qemu-img binary 2>
> <cluster front>   2.30 +- 0.01         6.19 +- 0.06
> <cluster middle>  2.20 +- 0.09         6.20 +- 0.06
> <cross cluster>   8.32 +- 0.16         8.26 +- 0.14
> <cluster 64K>     8.20 +- 0.05         6.26 +- 0.10
> ----------------  -------------------  -------------------
> 
> Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
> Suggested-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>   scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py | 170 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 170 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100755 scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py b/scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..ca1178f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py
> @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/env python3
> +#
> +# Test to compare performance of write requests for two qemu-img binary files.
> +#
> +# The idea of the test comes from intention to check the benefit of c8bb23cbdbe
> +# "qcow2: skip writing zero buffers to empty COW areas".
> +#
> +# Copyright (c) 2020 Virtuozzo International GmbH.
> +#
> +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> +# (at your option) any later version.
> +#
> +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> +# GNU General Public License for more details.
> +#
> +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> +# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> +#
> +
> +
> +import sys
> +import os
> +import subprocess
> +import simplebench
> +
> +
> +def bench_func(env, case):
> +    """ Handle one "cell" of benchmarking table. """
> +    return bench_write_req(env['qemu_img'], env['image_name'],
> +                           case['block_size'], case['block_offset'],
> +                           case['cluster_size'])
> +
> +
> +def qemu_img_pipe(*args):
> +    '''Run qemu-img and return its output'''
> +    subp = subprocess.Popen(list(args),
> +                            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> +                            stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
> +                            universal_newlines=True)
> +    exitcode = subp.wait()
> +    if exitcode < 0:
> +        sys.stderr.write('qemu-img received signal %i: %s\n'
> +                         % (-exitcode, ' '.join(list(args))))
> +    return subp.communicate()[0]
> +
> +
> +def bench_write_req(qemu_img, image_name, block_size, block_offset,
> +                    cluster_size):
> +    """Benchmark write requests
> +
> +    The function creates a QCOW2 image with the given path/name. Then it runs
> +    the 'qemu-img bench' command and makes series of write requests on the
> +    image clusters. Finally, it returns the total time of the write operations
> +    on the disk.
> +
> +    qemu_img     -- path to qemu_img executable file
> +    image_name   -- QCOW2 image name to create
> +    block_size   -- size of a block to write to clusters
> +    block_offset -- offset of the block in clusters
> +    cluster_size -- size of the image cluster
> +
> +    Returns {'seconds': int} on success and {'error': str} on failure.
> +    Return value is compatible with simplebench lib.
> +    """
> +
> +    if not os.path.isfile(qemu_img):
> +        print(f'File not found: {qemu_img}')
> +        sys.exit(1)
> +
> +    image_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(image_name))
> +    if not os.path.isdir(image_dir):
> +        print(f'Path not found: {image_name}')
> +        sys.exit(1)
> +
> +    image_size = 1024 * 1024 * 1024
> +
> +    args_create = [qemu_img, 'create', '-f', 'qcow2', '-o',
> +                   f'cluster_size={cluster_size}',
> +                   image_name, str(image_size)]
> +
> +    count = int(image_size / cluster_size) - 1
> +    step = str(cluster_size)
> +
> +    args_bench = [qemu_img, 'bench', '-w', '-n', '-t', 'none', '-c',
> +                  str(count), '-s', f'{block_size}', '-o', str(block_offset),
> +                  '-S', step, '-f', 'qcow2', image_name]
> +
> +    try:
> +        qemu_img_pipe(*args_create)
> +    except OSError as e:
> +        os.remove(image_name)
> +        return {'error': 'qemu_img create failed: ' + str(e)}
> +
> +    try:
> +        ret = qemu_img_pipe(*args_bench)
> +    except OSError as e:
> +        os.remove(image_name)
> +        return {'error': 'qemu_img bench failed: ' + str(e)}
> +
> +    os.remove(image_name)
> +
> +    if 'seconds' in ret:
> +        ret_list = ret.split()
> +        index = ret_list.index('seconds.')
> +        return {'seconds': float(ret_list[index-1])}
> +    else:
> +        return {'error': 'qemu_img bench failed: ' + ret}
> +
> +
> +if __name__ == '__main__':
> +
> +    if len(sys.argv) < 4:
> +        program = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
> +        print(f'USAGE: {program} <path to qemu-img binary file> '
> +              '<path to another qemu-img to compare performance with> '
> +              '<full or relative name for QCOW2 image to create>')
> +        exit(1)
> +
> +    # Test-cases are "rows" in benchmark resulting table, 'id' is a caption
> +    # for the row, other fields are handled by bench_func.
> +    test_cases = [
> +        {
> +            'id': '<cluster front>',
> +            'block_size': 4096,
> +            'block_offset': 0,
> +            'cluster_size': 1048576
> +        },
> +        {
> +            'id': '<cluster middle>',
> +            'block_size': 4096,
> +            'block_offset': 524288,
> +            'cluster_size': 1048576
> +        },
> +        {
> +            'id': '<cross cluster>',
> +            'block_size': 1048576,
> +            'block_offset': 4096,
> +            'cluster_size': 1048576
> +        },
> +        {
> +            'id': '<cluster 64K>',
> +            'block_size': 4096,
> +            'block_offset': 0,
> +            'cluster_size': 65536
> +        },
> +    ]
> +
> +    # Test-envs are "columns" in benchmark resulting table, 'id is a caption
> +    # for the column, other fields are handled by bench_func.
> +    # Set the paths below to desired values
> +    test_envs = [
> +        {
> +            'id': '<qemu-img binary 1>',
> +            'qemu_img': f'{sys.argv[1]}',
> +            'image_name': f'{sys.argv[3]}'
> +        },
> +        {
> +            'id': '<qemu-img binary 2>',
> +            'qemu_img': f'{sys.argv[2]}',
> +            'image_name': f'{sys.argv[3]}'
> +        },
> +    ]
> +
> +    result = simplebench.bench(bench_func, test_envs, test_cases, count=3,
> +                               initial_run=False)
> +    print(simplebench.ascii(result))
>
Eduardo Habkost July 14, 2020, 7:36 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 07:05:05PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> Hi Eduardo!
> 
> Could you please stage this in your branch, to be pulled for 5.2 later?

Queued, thanks!

> 
> 14.07.2020 18:50, Andrey Shinkevich wrote:
> > The script 'bench_write_req.py' allows comparing performances of write
> > request for two qemu-img binary files.
> > An example with (qemu-img binary 1) and without (qemu-img binary 2) the
> > applied patch "qcow2: skip writing zero buffers to empty COW areas"
> > (git commit ID: c8bb23cbdbe32f5) has the following results:
> > 
> > SSD:
> > ----------------  -------------------  -------------------
> >                    <qemu-img binary 1>  <qemu-img binary 2>
> > <cluster front>   0.10 +- 0.00         8.16 +- 0.65
> > <cluster middle>  0.10 +- 0.00         7.37 +- 1.10
> > <cross cluster>   7.40 +- 1.08         21.97 +- 4.19
> > <cluster 64K>     2.14 +- 0.94         8.48 +- 1.66
> > ----------------  -------------------  -------------------
> > HDD:
> > ----------------  -------------------  -------------------
> >                    <qemu-img binary 1>  <qemu-img binary 2>
> > <cluster front>   2.30 +- 0.01         6.19 +- 0.06
> > <cluster middle>  2.20 +- 0.09         6.20 +- 0.06
> > <cross cluster>   8.32 +- 0.16         8.26 +- 0.14
> > <cluster 64K>     8.20 +- 0.05         6.26 +- 0.10
> > ----------------  -------------------  -------------------
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
> > Suggested-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
> > ---
> >   scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py | 170 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 170 insertions(+)
> >   create mode 100755 scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py b/scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py
> > new file mode 100755
> > index 0000000..ca1178f
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py
> > @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
> > +#!/usr/bin/env python3
> > +#
> > +# Test to compare performance of write requests for two qemu-img binary files.
> > +#
> > +# The idea of the test comes from intention to check the benefit of c8bb23cbdbe
> > +# "qcow2: skip writing zero buffers to empty COW areas".
> > +#
> > +# Copyright (c) 2020 Virtuozzo International GmbH.
> > +#
> > +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> > +# (at your option) any later version.
> > +#
> > +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> > +# GNU General Public License for more details.
> > +#
> > +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> > +# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> > +#
> > +
> > +
> > +import sys
> > +import os
> > +import subprocess
> > +import simplebench
> > +
> > +
> > +def bench_func(env, case):
> > +    """ Handle one "cell" of benchmarking table. """
> > +    return bench_write_req(env['qemu_img'], env['image_name'],
> > +                           case['block_size'], case['block_offset'],
> > +                           case['cluster_size'])
> > +
> > +
> > +def qemu_img_pipe(*args):
> > +    '''Run qemu-img and return its output'''
> > +    subp = subprocess.Popen(list(args),
> > +                            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> > +                            stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
> > +                            universal_newlines=True)
> > +    exitcode = subp.wait()
> > +    if exitcode < 0:
> > +        sys.stderr.write('qemu-img received signal %i: %s\n'
> > +                         % (-exitcode, ' '.join(list(args))))
> > +    return subp.communicate()[0]
> > +
> > +
> > +def bench_write_req(qemu_img, image_name, block_size, block_offset,
> > +                    cluster_size):
> > +    """Benchmark write requests
> > +
> > +    The function creates a QCOW2 image with the given path/name. Then it runs
> > +    the 'qemu-img bench' command and makes series of write requests on the
> > +    image clusters. Finally, it returns the total time of the write operations
> > +    on the disk.
> > +
> > +    qemu_img     -- path to qemu_img executable file
> > +    image_name   -- QCOW2 image name to create
> > +    block_size   -- size of a block to write to clusters
> > +    block_offset -- offset of the block in clusters
> > +    cluster_size -- size of the image cluster
> > +
> > +    Returns {'seconds': int} on success and {'error': str} on failure.
> > +    Return value is compatible with simplebench lib.
> > +    """
> > +
> > +    if not os.path.isfile(qemu_img):
> > +        print(f'File not found: {qemu_img}')
> > +        sys.exit(1)
> > +
> > +    image_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(image_name))
> > +    if not os.path.isdir(image_dir):
> > +        print(f'Path not found: {image_name}')
> > +        sys.exit(1)
> > +
> > +    image_size = 1024 * 1024 * 1024
> > +
> > +    args_create = [qemu_img, 'create', '-f', 'qcow2', '-o',
> > +                   f'cluster_size={cluster_size}',
> > +                   image_name, str(image_size)]
> > +
> > +    count = int(image_size / cluster_size) - 1
> > +    step = str(cluster_size)
> > +
> > +    args_bench = [qemu_img, 'bench', '-w', '-n', '-t', 'none', '-c',
> > +                  str(count), '-s', f'{block_size}', '-o', str(block_offset),
> > +                  '-S', step, '-f', 'qcow2', image_name]
> > +
> > +    try:
> > +        qemu_img_pipe(*args_create)
> > +    except OSError as e:
> > +        os.remove(image_name)
> > +        return {'error': 'qemu_img create failed: ' + str(e)}
> > +
> > +    try:
> > +        ret = qemu_img_pipe(*args_bench)
> > +    except OSError as e:
> > +        os.remove(image_name)
> > +        return {'error': 'qemu_img bench failed: ' + str(e)}
> > +
> > +    os.remove(image_name)
> > +
> > +    if 'seconds' in ret:
> > +        ret_list = ret.split()
> > +        index = ret_list.index('seconds.')
> > +        return {'seconds': float(ret_list[index-1])}
> > +    else:
> > +        return {'error': 'qemu_img bench failed: ' + ret}
> > +
> > +
> > +if __name__ == '__main__':
> > +
> > +    if len(sys.argv) < 4:
> > +        program = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
> > +        print(f'USAGE: {program} <path to qemu-img binary file> '
> > +              '<path to another qemu-img to compare performance with> '
> > +              '<full or relative name for QCOW2 image to create>')
> > +        exit(1)
> > +
> > +    # Test-cases are "rows" in benchmark resulting table, 'id' is a caption
> > +    # for the row, other fields are handled by bench_func.
> > +    test_cases = [
> > +        {
> > +            'id': '<cluster front>',
> > +            'block_size': 4096,
> > +            'block_offset': 0,
> > +            'cluster_size': 1048576
> > +        },
> > +        {
> > +            'id': '<cluster middle>',
> > +            'block_size': 4096,
> > +            'block_offset': 524288,
> > +            'cluster_size': 1048576
> > +        },
> > +        {
> > +            'id': '<cross cluster>',
> > +            'block_size': 1048576,
> > +            'block_offset': 4096,
> > +            'cluster_size': 1048576
> > +        },
> > +        {
> > +            'id': '<cluster 64K>',
> > +            'block_size': 4096,
> > +            'block_offset': 0,
> > +            'cluster_size': 65536
> > +        },
> > +    ]
> > +
> > +    # Test-envs are "columns" in benchmark resulting table, 'id is a caption
> > +    # for the column, other fields are handled by bench_func.
> > +    # Set the paths below to desired values
> > +    test_envs = [
> > +        {
> > +            'id': '<qemu-img binary 1>',
> > +            'qemu_img': f'{sys.argv[1]}',
> > +            'image_name': f'{sys.argv[3]}'
> > +        },
> > +        {
> > +            'id': '<qemu-img binary 2>',
> > +            'qemu_img': f'{sys.argv[2]}',
> > +            'image_name': f'{sys.argv[3]}'
> > +        },
> > +    ]
> > +
> > +    result = simplebench.bench(bench_func, test_envs, test_cases, count=3,
> > +                               initial_run=False)
> > +    print(simplebench.ascii(result))
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Vladimir
>
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy July 14, 2020, 7:55 p.m. UTC | #3
14.07.2020 22:36, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 07:05:05PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>> Hi Eduardo!
>>
>> Could you please stage this in your branch, to be pulled for 5.2 later?
> Queued, thanks!
> 

Thank you!
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diff --git a/scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py b/scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ca1178f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/simplebench/bench_write_req.py
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ 
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Test to compare performance of write requests for two qemu-img binary files.
+#
+# The idea of the test comes from intention to check the benefit of c8bb23cbdbe
+# "qcow2: skip writing zero buffers to empty COW areas".
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Virtuozzo International GmbH.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+
+import sys
+import os
+import subprocess
+import simplebench
+
+
+def bench_func(env, case):
+    """ Handle one "cell" of benchmarking table. """
+    return bench_write_req(env['qemu_img'], env['image_name'],
+                           case['block_size'], case['block_offset'],
+                           case['cluster_size'])
+
+
+def qemu_img_pipe(*args):
+    '''Run qemu-img and return its output'''
+    subp = subprocess.Popen(list(args),
+                            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                            stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
+                            universal_newlines=True)
+    exitcode = subp.wait()
+    if exitcode < 0:
+        sys.stderr.write('qemu-img received signal %i: %s\n'
+                         % (-exitcode, ' '.join(list(args))))
+    return subp.communicate()[0]
+
+
+def bench_write_req(qemu_img, image_name, block_size, block_offset,
+                    cluster_size):
+    """Benchmark write requests
+
+    The function creates a QCOW2 image with the given path/name. Then it runs
+    the 'qemu-img bench' command and makes series of write requests on the
+    image clusters. Finally, it returns the total time of the write operations
+    on the disk.
+
+    qemu_img     -- path to qemu_img executable file
+    image_name   -- QCOW2 image name to create
+    block_size   -- size of a block to write to clusters
+    block_offset -- offset of the block in clusters
+    cluster_size -- size of the image cluster
+
+    Returns {'seconds': int} on success and {'error': str} on failure.
+    Return value is compatible with simplebench lib.
+    """
+
+    if not os.path.isfile(qemu_img):
+        print(f'File not found: {qemu_img}')
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    image_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(image_name))
+    if not os.path.isdir(image_dir):
+        print(f'Path not found: {image_name}')
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    image_size = 1024 * 1024 * 1024
+
+    args_create = [qemu_img, 'create', '-f', 'qcow2', '-o',
+                   f'cluster_size={cluster_size}',
+                   image_name, str(image_size)]
+
+    count = int(image_size / cluster_size) - 1
+    step = str(cluster_size)
+
+    args_bench = [qemu_img, 'bench', '-w', '-n', '-t', 'none', '-c',
+                  str(count), '-s', f'{block_size}', '-o', str(block_offset),
+                  '-S', step, '-f', 'qcow2', image_name]
+
+    try:
+        qemu_img_pipe(*args_create)
+    except OSError as e:
+        os.remove(image_name)
+        return {'error': 'qemu_img create failed: ' + str(e)}
+
+    try:
+        ret = qemu_img_pipe(*args_bench)
+    except OSError as e:
+        os.remove(image_name)
+        return {'error': 'qemu_img bench failed: ' + str(e)}
+
+    os.remove(image_name)
+
+    if 'seconds' in ret:
+        ret_list = ret.split()
+        index = ret_list.index('seconds.')
+        return {'seconds': float(ret_list[index-1])}
+    else:
+        return {'error': 'qemu_img bench failed: ' + ret}
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    if len(sys.argv) < 4:
+        program = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
+        print(f'USAGE: {program} <path to qemu-img binary file> '
+              '<path to another qemu-img to compare performance with> '
+              '<full or relative name for QCOW2 image to create>')
+        exit(1)
+
+    # Test-cases are "rows" in benchmark resulting table, 'id' is a caption
+    # for the row, other fields are handled by bench_func.
+    test_cases = [
+        {
+            'id': '<cluster front>',
+            'block_size': 4096,
+            'block_offset': 0,
+            'cluster_size': 1048576
+        },
+        {
+            'id': '<cluster middle>',
+            'block_size': 4096,
+            'block_offset': 524288,
+            'cluster_size': 1048576
+        },
+        {
+            'id': '<cross cluster>',
+            'block_size': 1048576,
+            'block_offset': 4096,
+            'cluster_size': 1048576
+        },
+        {
+            'id': '<cluster 64K>',
+            'block_size': 4096,
+            'block_offset': 0,
+            'cluster_size': 65536
+        },
+    ]
+
+    # Test-envs are "columns" in benchmark resulting table, 'id is a caption
+    # for the column, other fields are handled by bench_func.
+    # Set the paths below to desired values
+    test_envs = [
+        {
+            'id': '<qemu-img binary 1>',
+            'qemu_img': f'{sys.argv[1]}',
+            'image_name': f'{sys.argv[3]}'
+        },
+        {
+            'id': '<qemu-img binary 2>',
+            'qemu_img': f'{sys.argv[2]}',
+            'image_name': f'{sys.argv[3]}'
+        },
+    ]
+
+    result = simplebench.bench(bench_func, test_envs, test_cases, count=3,
+                               initial_run=False)
+    print(simplebench.ascii(result))