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The article has been updated to include the performance impact of the changes made as part of GSoC 2020.
To explicitly use only the file size check all the time, the following command-line option can be used: <code>--file-validation filesize</code> (This is the fastest and least intensive check).
To explicitly use only the file size check all the time, the following command-line option can be used: <code>--file-validation filesize</code> (This is the fastest and least intensive check).
== Performance impact ==
The values shown below are the average times it took to finish the ZDTM tests over multiple runs, and are only to indicate the impact each method has in general.
Each test has 3 files (Of sizes: 0.09 MB, 2 MB and 0.17 MB approximately) and each test is run 3 times (In Host, Namespace and User Namespace). For each file the checksum/build-ID is obtained twice (During dump and restore) therefore the function to find checksum/build-ID is called 18 times overall per test.
For reference, these tests were run on tmpfs (To remove any disk latency) and on an undervolted i5 4800H.
{| class="wikitable"
|+zdtm/transition/shmem:
|-
|File Size
|3.782s
|-
|Build-ID
|4.153s (~9% increase)
|-
|Checksum (First 1024 bytes)
|4.465s (~18% increase)
|-
|Checksum (Entire File)
|4.722s (~24% increase)
|-
|Checksum (Every 1024th byte)
|4.498s (~19% increase)
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+zdtm/static/maps04:
|-
|File Size
|35.317s
|-
|Build-ID
|35.720s (~1% increase)
|-
|Checksum (First 1024 bytes)
|35.919s (~2% increase)
|-
|Checksum (Entire File)
|36.679s (~4% increase)
|-
|Checksum (Every 1024th byte)
|36.476s (~3% increase)
|}
== Scope for improvement and future work ==
== Scope for improvement and future work ==