Investigate potentially integrating PowerKVM Performance tests into Host OS Test Suite about tests HOT 2 CLOSED

There are a few basic performance-type tests that are already integrated into the avocado-misc-tests repository perf folder that can be leveraged in this test suite. I will investigate those tests further to determine which should be included in our default sanity suite and which could be called with a new optional performance-specific suite.

There are also a number of more complex performance tests being run internally that I investigated potentially integrating into this test suite, but there are a number of large challenges to overcome in order to be successful:

1. Performance testing is typically either a check of performance against known baselines or a creation and comparison to various baseline performance levels. This requires more complex logic/code than the more basic individual functional tests that currently make up this test suite.
2. The performance testing currently being done internally includes too much proprietary tooling to easily make open source. Turning the current performance suite into open source code would require a major re-design/re-write that may be more trouble than it's worth to implement.
3. Any new performance testing that is found or written to include in this test suite will likely need to be run separately from the Avocado framework since these types of tests do not typically have a simple pass or fail result. More investigation will be done on this once potential tests are located.

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It is likely that additional internal performance testing will NOT be included in the Host OS tests repository any time soon. If a specific test or test suite becomes more conducive to adding to this suite, an enhancement Issue will be opened to track its progress.

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