doc/testing.md
changeset 52595 16609197022c
parent 52396 e292e94b448a
child 53464 650527b39f00
--- a/doc/testing.md	Fri Nov 16 13:23:50 2018 -0500
+++ b/doc/testing.md	Fri Nov 16 23:39:51 2018 +0100
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     $ make test-only TEST="gtest:LogTagSet gtest:LogTagSetDescriptions" GTEST="REPEAT=-1"
     $ make test TEST="hotspot:hotspot_gc" JTREG="JOBS=1;TIMEOUT=8;VM_OPTIONS=-XshowSettings -Xlog:gc+ref=debug"
     $ make test TEST="jtreg:test/hotspot:hotspot_gc test/hotspot/jtreg/native_sanity/JniVersion.java"
+    $ make test TEST="micro:java.lang.reflect" MICRO="FORK=1;WARMUP_ITER=2"
     $ make exploded-test TEST=tier2
 
 ### Configuration
@@ -37,6 +38,12 @@
 containing `lib/jtreg.jar` etc. (An alternative is to set the `JT_HOME`
 environment variable to point to the JTReg home before running `configure`.)
 
+To be able to run microbenchmarks, `configure` needs to know where to find
+the JMH dependency. Use `--with-jmh=<path to JMH jars>` to point to a directory
+containing the core JMH and transitive dependencies. The recommended dependencies 
+can be retrieved by running `sh make/devkit/createJMHBundle.sh`, after which 
+`--with-jmh=build/jmh/jars` should work.
+
 ## Test selection
 
 All functionality is available using the `test` make target. In this use case,
@@ -104,6 +111,16 @@
 variant present (e.g. server, client). So if you only have the server JVM
 present, then `gtest:all` will be equivalent to `gtest:all/server`.
 
+### Microbenchmarks
+
+Which microbenchmarks to run is selected using a regular expression
+following the `micro:` test descriptor, e.g., `micro:java.lang.reflect`. This
+delegates the test selection to JMH, meaning package name, class name and even
+benchmark method names can be used to select tests.
+
+Using special characters like `|` in the regular expression is possible, but
+needs to be escaped multiple times: `micro:ArrayCopy\\\\\|reflect`.
+
 ### Special tests
 
 A handful of odd tests that are not covered by any other testing framework are
@@ -253,6 +270,35 @@
 
 Use `GTEST="OPTIONS=--help"` to see all available Gtest options.
 
+### Microbenchmark keywords
+
+#### FORK
+Override the number of benchmark forks to spawn. Same as specifying `-f <num>`.
+
+#### ITER
+Number of measurement iterations per fork. Same as specifying `-i <num>`.
+
+#### TIME
+Amount of time to spend in each measurement iteration, in seconds. Same as
+specifying `-r <num>`
+
+#### WARMUP_ITER
+Number of warmup iterations to run before the measurement phase in each fork.
+Same as specifying `-wi <num>`.
+
+#### WARMUP_TIME
+Amount of time to spend in each warmup iteration. Same as specifying `-w <num>`.
+
+#### RESULTS_FORMAT
+Specify to have the test run save a log of the values. Accepts the same values
+as `-rff`, i.e., `text`, `csv`, `scsv`, `json`, or `latex`.
+
+#### VM_OPTIONS
+Additional VM arguments to provide to forked off VMs. Same as `-jvmArgs <args>`
+
+#### OPTIONS
+Additional arguments to send to JMH.
+
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