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tomcucinotta / distwalk

Distributed processing emulation tool
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dw_client: ability to read scenario(s) from script(s) #32

Closed tomcucinotta closed 9 months ago

tomcucinotta commented 9 months ago

In order to specify a workload scenario in dw_client, in addition to providing command-line arguments, it might be useful to have the possibility to specify a "script" file, e.g.:

  dw_client -f script.dw

where script.dw could have the same exact syntax as the command-line arguments, perhaps with some more comfortable "dashless" way of specifying commands, e.g., the command

  -C 10000 -L 16384 -rs 512

might be specified with a script file like

#!dw_client -f

COMPUTE 10000us
LOAD 16KB
REPLY 512B

where, adding the "shell bang" first line, would allow for launching directly the script from the shell, making it executable.

The sharp symbol "#" could be used throughout the script to add comments that would be completely ignored by dw_client.

tomcucinotta commented 9 months ago

it was longer to explain than to do it (ok, the script syntax might be improved, but stil...)