Persistent Memory Test Suite (PMTS)

The Persistent Memory Test Suite (PMTS) is a collection of scripts to run popular benchmark tools on systems with Persistent Memory.

Supported Benchmark Tools

The following benchmarking tools are supported:

• Intel® MLC (Memory Latency Checker) v3.8 or later

Prerequisites

The test suite requires the following:

• Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory installed in the system (one or more modules per CPU socket)
• At least one DAX file system (ext4 or XFS) using persistent memory
• ipmctl
• ndctl
• numactl
• lscpu
• grep/egrep
• awk
• sed
• bc

Running the Tests

Each benchmark has a dedicated script and readme file referenced by the table below

Test Suite	Script	README
Intel Memory Latency Checker (MLC)	pmts-mlc.sh	README-mlc