Firefox OS/Performance

Firefox OS Performance

Mozilla's program for advancing Firefox OS performance.

Engineering Manager	Mike Lee
Engineering	Jon Hylands, Ben Kelly, Hubert Figuière, David Huseby, Mason Chang, Eli Perelman
Quality Assurance	Geo Mealer
Product Management	Ravikumar Dandu
Program Management	Mike Lee + Jean Gong
User Experience	Gordon Brander
Location (Timezones)	United States (PT, CT, & ET), Canada (ET)
Wiki	https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Performance
Calendar (CalDAV)	https://mail.mozilla.com/dav/mozillacalendar@mozilla.com/FxOS%20Performance
Contact	#fxos-perf on irc.mozilla.org, fxos-perf@mozilla.com
Stand-ups	FxOS_Performance Vidyo Room: Tuesdays @ 1pm PT & Fridays @ 11am PT
Triages	FxOS_Performance Vidyo Room: Wednesdays @ 11am PT
Sprint Planning	FxOS_Performance Vidyo Room: 10am PT on last Friday of each sprint.
Meet-Ups/Workweeks	FxOS_Performance Vidyo Room: Taipei: 2014.03.31 - 04.04

Submodules

Submodule	Owner
Automation & Testing	Hubert Figuière
Graphics	Mason Chang
Memory	Ben Kelly
Power	Jon Hylands
Responsiveness	Eli Perelman
Tools & Hardware	David Huseby

Plans

• Roadmap
• Sprints
• Triage
  • Blocking Criteria
• Performance Categories
• Etherpads
  • Automation
  • Stand-ups
  • MemShrink Priorities
  • Perf Test Automation Status
• Taipei Performance
• Tarako

Tools

• Dashboards
  • Datazilla: Instrumented Apps
    • Using Datazilla
  • Eideticker: Automated Camera Measurement
    • Using Eideticker
    • Measuring Entropy

• Instrumentation
  • Gaia Performance Tests
  • Gaia Test Framework
    • Dialer Perf Tests
    • See <APP_NAME>/test/performance folders within the Gaia Repo for more performance tests.
  • B2G Perf (via Automation Team)
  • FPS
  • Frame Uniformity

• Power Measurement

• Profiling
  • Speed
  • Memory
    • Debugging
    • MemShrink
    • Reporting
    • Stress Testing
  • Mock Data
    • Reference Workloads (via Gaia build targets)
    • B2G Populate (via Automation Team)
  • Valgrind

• Root-Causing Regressions

• Stability
  • Crashes
  • Endurance Tests

• Integration
  • Marionette JS Tools
  • Marionette JS Tools ReadMe

• How to Back Out
  • update tree
  • git revert -m1 originalCommitHash. Only need the -m1 if you the original commit was a merge.
  • git push

References

• • Taipei Performance Team

• Firefox OS Architecture
  • Overview
  • Modules
  • Diagrams
  • Gaia
• Articles
  • App Performance Validation
  • A*Team Performance Tools
  • Building B2G Faster with Distcc
  • CSS
    • Blend Modes
    • Efficient CSS
    • will-change property
  • FxOS Performance Tips
  • GPS
  • JSON
  • Lists
    • Implementing Virtual Lists
    • Virtual List Demo
  • Mozilla Commit Process
  • RILAnalyzer
  • Steve Souders' Web Performance
  • Tracking Reflows & Event Loops
  • Upstreaming Kernel Changes to Geeksphone
  • Boot Sequence Optimization
  • Bisecting Gecko and Gaia