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Josh Poimboeuf 4b6ab94eab perf subcmd: Create subcmd library
Move the subcommand-related files from perf to a new library named
libsubcmd.a.

Since we're moving files anyway, go ahead and rename 'exec_cmd.*' to
'exec-cmd.*' to be consistent with the naming of all the other files.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c0a838d4c878ab17fee50998811612b2281355c1.1450193761.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
Ingo Molnar aa254af25c perf bench: Run benchmarks, don't test them
So right now we output this text:

        memcpy: Benchmark for memcpy() functions
        memset: Benchmark for memset() functions
           all: Test all memory access benchmarks

But the right verb to use with benchmarks is to 'run' them, not 'test'
them.

So change this (and all similar texts) to:

        memcpy: Benchmark for memcpy() functions
        memset: Benchmark for memset() functions
           all: Run all memory access benchmarks

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445241870-24854-15-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-10-19 16:10:25 -03:00
Ingo Molnar 13b1fdce8d perf bench mem: Improve user visible strings
- fix various typos in user visible output strings
 - make the output consistent (wrt. capitalization and spelling)
 - offer the list of routines to benchmark on '-r help'.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445241870-24854-11-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-10-19 16:07:18 -03:00
Ingo Molnar 7a46a8fd13 perf bench: List output formatting options on 'perf bench -h'
So 'perf bench -h' is not very helpful when printing the help line
about the output formatting options:

    -f, --format <default>
                              Specify format style

There are two output format styles, 'default' and 'simple', so improve
the help text to:

    -f, --format <default|simple>
                              Specify the output formatting style

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445241870-24854-7-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
[ Removed leftovers from the mem-functions.c rename ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-10-19 16:03:53 -03:00
Davidlohr Bueso d2f3f5d2e9 perf bench futex: Add lock_pi stresser
Allows a way of measuring low level kernel implementation of FUTEX_LOCK_PI and
FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI.

The program comes in two flavors:

(i) single futex (default), all threads contend on the same uaddr.  For the
sake of the benchmark, we call into kernel space even when the lock is
uncontended.  The kernel will set it to TID, any waters that come in and
contend for the pi futex will be handled respectively by the kernel.

(ii) -M option for multiple futexes, each thread deals with its own futex. This
is a trivial scenario and only measures kernel handling of 0->TID transition.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436259353.12255.78.camel@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-07-20 17:49:51 -03:00
Davidlohr Bueso d65817b4e7 perf bench futex: Support parallel waker threads
The futex-wake benchmark only measures wakeups done within a single
process. While this has value in its own, it does not really generate
any hb->lock contention.

A new benchmark 'wake-parallel' is added, by extending the futex-wake
code such that we can measure parallel waker threads. The program output
shows the avg per-thread latency in order to complete its share of
wakeups:

Run summary [PID 13474]: blocking on 512 threads (at [private] futex 0xa88668), 8 threads waking up 64 at a time.

[Run 1]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.6230 ms (+-15.31%)
[Run 2]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.5175 ms (+-29.95%)
[Run 3]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.7578 ms (+-18.03%)
[Run 4]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.8944 ms (+-12.54%)
[Run 5]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 1.1204 ms (+-23.85%)
Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.7826 ms (+-9.91%)

Naturally, different combinations of numbers of blocking and waker
threads will exhibit different information.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431110280-20231-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-08 16:23:50 -03:00
Davidlohr Bueso b6f0629a94 perf bench: Add --repeat option
There are a number of benchmarks that do single runs and as a result
does not really help users gain a general idea of how the workload
performs. So the user must either manually do multiple runs or just use
single bogus results.

This option will enable users to specify the amount of runs (arbitrarily
defaulted to 10, to use the existing benchmarks default) through the
'--repeat' option.  Add it to perf-bench instead of implementing it
always in each specific benchmark.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402942467-10671-2-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
[ Kept the existing default of 10, changing it to something else should
  be done on separate patch ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-19 16:13:15 -03:00
Linus Torvalds 8c292f1174 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

  Kernel side changes:

   - Add SNB/IVB/HSW client uncore memory controller support (Stephane
     Eranian)

   - Fix various x86/P4 PMU driver bugs (Don Zickus)

  Tooling, user visible changes:

   - Add several futex 'perf bench' microbenchmarks (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - Speed up thread map generation (Don Zickus)

   - Introduce 'perf kvm --list-cmds' command line option for use by
     scripts (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

   - Print the evsel name in the annotate stdio output, prep to fix
     support outputting annotation for multiple events, not just for the
     first one (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Allow setting preferred callchain method in .perfconfig (Jiri Olsa)

   - Show in what binaries/modules 'perf probe's are set (Masami
     Hiramatsu)

   - Support distro-style debuginfo for uprobe in 'perf probe' (Masami
     Hiramatsu)

  Tooling, internal changes and fixes:

   - Use tid in mmap/mmap2 events to find maps (Don Zickus)

   - Record the reason for filtering an address_location (Namhyung Kim)

   - Apply all filters to an addr_location (Namhyung Kim)

   - Merge al->filtered with hist_entry->filtered in report/hists
     (Namhyung Kim)

   - Fix memory leak when synthesizing thread records (Namhyung Kim)

   - Use ui__has_annotation() in 'report' (Namhyung Kim)

   - hists browser refactorings to reuse code accross UIs (Namhyung Kim)

   - Add support for the new DWARF unwinder library in elfutils (Jiri
     Olsa)

   - Fix build race in the generation of bison files (Jiri Olsa)

   - Further streamline the feature detection display, trimming it a bit
     to show just the libraries detected, using VF=1 gets a more verbose
     output, showing the less interesting feature checks as well (Jiri
     Olsa).

   - Check compatible symtab type before loading dso (Namhyung Kim)

   - Check return value of filename__read_debuglink() (Stephane Eranian)

   - Move some hashing and fs related code from tools/perf/util/ to
     tools/lib/ so that it can be used by more tools/ living utilities
     (Borislav Petkov)

   - Prepare DWARF unwinding code for using an elfutils alternative
     unwinding library (Jiri Olsa)

   - Fix DWARF unwind max_stack processing (Jiri Olsa)

   - Add dwarf unwind 'perf test' entry (Jiri Olsa)

   - 'perf probe' improvements including memory leak fixes, sharing the
     intlist class with other tools, uprobes/kprobes code sharing and
     use of ref_reloc_sym (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Shorten sample symbol resolving by adding cpumode to struct
     addr_location (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Fix synthesizing mmaps for threads (Don Zickus)

   - Fix invalid output on event group stdio report (Namhyung Kim)

   - Fixup header alignment in 'perf sched latency' output (Ramkumar
     Ramachandra)

   - Fix off-by-one error in 'perf timechart record' argv handling
     (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

  Tooling, cleanups:

   - Remove unused thread__find_map function (Jiri Olsa)

   - Remove unused simple_strtoul() function (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

  Tooling, documentation updates:

   - Update function names in debug messages (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

   - Update some code references in design.txt (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

   - Clarify load-latency information in the 'perf mem' docs (Andi
     Kleen)

   - Clarify x86 register naming in 'perf probe' docs (Andi Kleen)"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (96 commits)
  perf tools: Remove unused simple_strtoul() function
  perf tools: Update some code references in design.txt
  perf evsel: Update function names in debug messages
  perf tools: Remove thread__find_map function
  perf annotate: Print the evsel name in the stdio output
  perf report: Use ui__has_annotation()
  perf tools: Fix memory leak when synthesizing thread records
  perf tools: Use tid in mmap/mmap2 events to find maps
  perf report: Merge al->filtered with hist_entry->filtered
  perf symbols: Apply all filters to an addr_location
  perf symbols: Record the reason for filtering an address_location
  perf sched: Fixup header alignment in 'latency' output
  perf timechart: Fix off-by-one error in 'record' argv handling
  perf machine: Factor machine__find_thread to take tid argument
  perf tools: Speed up thread map generation
  perf kvm: introduce --list-cmds for use by scripts
  perf ui hists: Pass evsel to hpp->header/width functions explicitly
  perf symbols: Introduce thread__find_cpumode_addr_location
  perf session: Change header.misc dump from decimal to hex
  perf ui/tui: Reuse generic __hpp__fmt() code
  ...
2014-03-31 11:13:25 -07:00
Patrick Palka 6eeefccdcf perf bench: Fix NULL pointer dereference in "perf bench all"
The for_each_bench() macro must check that the "benchmarks" field of a
collection is not NULL before dereferencing it because the "all"
collection in particular has a NULL "benchmarks" field (signifying that
it has no benchmarks to iterate over).

This fixes this NULL pointer dereference when running "perf bench all":

  [root@ssdandy ~]# perf bench all
  <SNIP>

  # Running mem/memset benchmark...
  # Copying 1MB Bytes ...

         2.453675 GB/Sec
        12.056327 GB/Sec (with prefault)

  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  [root@ssdandy ~]#

Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394664051-6037-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-03-14 13:45:54 -03:00
Davidlohr Bueso 0fb298cf95 perf bench: Add futex-requeue microbenchmark
Block a bunch of threads on a futex and requeue them on another, N at a
time.

This program is particularly useful to measure the latency of nthread
requeues without waking up any tasks -- thus mimicking a regular
futex_wait.

An example run:

  $ perf bench futex requeue -r 100 -t 64
  Run summary [PID 151011]: Requeuing 64 threads (from 0x7d15c4 to 0x7d15c8), 1 at a time.

  [Run 1]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0400 ms
  [Run 2]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0390 ms
  [Run 3]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0400 ms
  ...
  [Run 100]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0390 ms
  Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0399 ms (+-0.37%)

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387081917-9102-4-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-03-14 11:20:44 -03:00
Davidlohr Bueso 27db783074 perf bench: Add futex-wake microbenchmark
Block a bunch of threads on a futex and wake them up, N at a time.

This program is particularly useful to measure the latency of nthread
wakeups in non-error situations:  all waiters are queued and all wake
calls wakeup one or more tasks.

An example run:

  $ perf bench futex wake -t 512 -r 100
  Run summary [PID 27823]: blocking on 512 threads (at futex 0x7e10d4), waking up 1 at a time.

  [Run 1]: Wokeup 512 of 512 threads in 6.0080 ms
  [Run 2]: Wokeup 512 of 512 threads in 5.2280 ms
  [Run 3]: Wokeup 512 of 512 threads in 4.8300 ms
  ...
  [Run 100]: Wokeup 512 of 512 threads in 5.0100 ms
  Wokeup 512 of 512 threads in 5.0109 ms (+-2.25%)

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387081917-9102-3-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-03-14 11:20:43 -03:00
Davidlohr Bueso a043971141 perf bench: Add futex-hash microbenchmark
Introduce futexes to perf-bench and add a program that stresses and
measures the kernel's implementation of the hash table.

This is a multi-threaded program that simply measures the amount of
failed futex wait calls - we only want to deal with the hashing
overhead, so a negative return of futex_wait_setup() is enough to do the
trick.

An example run:

  $ perf bench futex hash -t 32
  Run summary [PID 10989]: 32 threads, each operating on 1024 [private] futexes for 10 secs.

  [thread  0] futexes: 0x19d9b10 ... 0x19dab0c [ 418713 ops/sec ]
  [thread  1] futexes: 0x19daca0 ... 0x19dbc9c [ 469913 ops/sec ]
  [thread  2] futexes: 0x19dbe30 ... 0x19dce2c [ 479744 ops/sec ]
  ...
  [thread 31] futexes: 0x19fbb80 ... 0x19fcb7c [ 464179 ops/sec ]

  Averaged 454310 operations/sec (+- 0.84%), total secs = 10

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387081917-9102-2-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-03-14 11:20:43 -03:00
Ingo Molnar 4157922a90 perf bench: Change the procps visible command-name of invididual benchmark tests plus cleanups
Before this patch, looking at 'perf bench sched pipe' behavior over
'top' only told us that something related to perf is running:

      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    19934 mingo     20   0 54836 1296  952 R 18.6  0.0   0:00.56 perf
    19935 mingo     20   0 54836  384   36 S 18.6  0.0   0:00.56 perf

After the patch it's clearly visible what's going on:

      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    19744 mingo     20   0  125m 3536 2644 R 68.2  0.0   0:01.12 sched-pipe
    19745 mingo     20   0  125m 1172  276 R 68.2  0.0   0:01.12 sched-pipe

The benchmark-subsystem name is concatenated with the individual
testcase name.

Unfortunately 'perf top' does not show the reconfigured name, possibly
because it caches ->comm[] values and does not recognize changes to
them?

Also clean up a few bits in builtin-bench.c while at it and reorganize
the code and the output strings to be consistent.

Use iterators to access the various arrays. Rename 'suites' concept to
'benchmark collection' and the 'bench_suite' to 'benchmark/bench'. The
many repetitions of 'suite' made the code harder to read and understand.

The new output is:

  comet:~/tip/tools/perf> ./perf bench
  Usage:
        perf bench [<common options>] <collection> <benchmark> [<options>]

        # List of all available benchmark collections:

         sched: Scheduler and IPC benchmarks
           mem: Memory access benchmarks
          numa: NUMA scheduling and MM benchmarks
           all: All benchmarks

  comet:~/tip/tools/perf> ./perf bench sched

        # List of available benchmarks for collection 'sched':

     messaging: Benchmark for scheduling and IPC
          pipe: Benchmark for pipe() between two processes
           all: Test all scheduler benchmarks

  comet:~/tip/tools/perf> ./perf bench mem

        # List of available benchmarks for collection 'mem':

        memcpy: Benchmark for memcpy()
        memset: Benchmark for memset() tests
           all: Test all memory benchmarks

  comet:~/tip/tools/perf> ./perf bench numa

        # List of available benchmarks for collection 'numa':

           mem: Benchmark for NUMA workloads
           all: Test all NUMA benchmarks

Individual benchmark modules were not touched.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131023123756.GA17871@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-10-23 09:57:34 -03:00
Ingo Molnar 89fe808ae7 tools/perf: Standardize feature support define names to: HAVE_{FEATURE}_SUPPORT
Standardize all the feature flags based on the HAVE_{FEATURE}_SUPPORT naming convention:

		HAVE_ARCH_X86_64_SUPPORT
		HAVE_BACKTRACE_SUPPORT
		HAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE_SUPPORT
		HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
		HAVE_ELF_GETPHDRNUM_SUPPORT
		HAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT
		HAVE_GTK_INFO_BAR_SUPPORT
		HAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT
		HAVE_LIBELF_MMAP_SUPPORT
		HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
		HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
		HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
		HAVE_ON_EXIT_SUPPORT
		HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT
		HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT
		HAVE_STRLCPY_SUPPORT

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u3zvqejddfZhtrbYbfhi3spa@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 08:48:28 +02:00
Peter Hurley 79d824e316 perf tools: Make numa benchmark optional
Commit "perf: Add 'perf bench numa mem'..." added a NUMA performance
benchmark to perf. Make this optional and test for required
dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359337882-21821-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-30 10:36:21 -03:00
Ingo Molnar 1c13f3c904 perf: Add 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite
Add a suite of NUMA performance benchmarks.

The goal was simulate the behavior and access patterns of real NUMA
workloads, via a wide range of parameters, so this tool goes well
beyond simple bzero() measurements that most NUMA micro-benchmarks use:

 - It processes the data and creates a chain of data dependencies,
   like a real workload would. Neither the compiler, nor the
   kernel (via KSM and other optimizations) nor the CPU can
   eliminate parts of the workload.

 - It randomizes the initial state and also randomizes the target
   addresses of the processing - it's not a simple forward scan
   of addresses.

 - It provides flexible options to set process, thread and memory
   relationship information: -G sets "global" memory shared between
   all test processes, -P sets "process" memory shared by all
   threads of a process and -T sets "thread" private memory.

 - There's a NUMA convergence monitoring and convergence latency
   measurement option via -c and -m.

 - Micro-sleeps and synchronization can be injected to provoke lock
   contention and scheduling, via the -u and -S options. This simulates
   IO and contention.

 - The -x option instructs the workload to 'perturb' itself artificially
   every N seconds, by moving to the first and last CPU of the system
   periodically. This way the stability of convergence equilibrium and
   the number of steps taken for the scheduler to reach equilibrium again
   can be measured.

 - The amount of work can be specified via the -l loop count, and/or
   via a -s seconds-timeout value.

 - CPU and node memory binding options, to test hard binding scenarios.
   THP can be turned on and off via madvise() calls.

 - Live reporting of convergence progress in an 'at glance' output format.
   Printing of convergence and deconvergence events.

The 'perf bench numa mem -a' option will start an array of about 30
individual tests that will each output such measurements:

 # Running  5x5-bw-thread, "perf bench numa mem -p 5 -t 5 -P 512 -s 20 -zZ0q --thp  1"
  5x5-bw-thread,                         20.276, secs,           runtime-max/thread
  5x5-bw-thread,                         20.004, secs,           runtime-min/thread
  5x5-bw-thread,                         20.155, secs,           runtime-avg/thread
  5x5-bw-thread,                          0.671, %,              spread-runtime/thread
  5x5-bw-thread,                         21.153, GB,             data/thread
  5x5-bw-thread,                        528.818, GB,             data-total
  5x5-bw-thread,                          0.959, nsecs,          runtime/byte/thread
  5x5-bw-thread,                          1.043, GB/sec,         thread-speed
  5x5-bw-thread,                         26.081, GB/sec,         total-speed

See the help text and the code for more details.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-30 10:35:36 -03:00
Namhyung Kim 9b494ea2f5 perf bench: Flush stdout before starting bench suite
perf bench prints header message for bench suite before starting the
benchmark.  However if the stdout is redirected to a file and bench
suite forks child processes this (and possibly other debugging
messages too) will be repeated multiple times.

  $ perf bench sched messaging
  # Running sched/messaging benchmark...
  # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
  # 10 groups == 400 processes run

       Total time: 0.100 [sec]

  $ perf bench sched messaging > result.txt
  $ wc -l result.txt
  391

In this file, there were so many "Running sched/messaging benchmark..."
lines.  This was because stdout is converted to fully-buffered due to
the redirection and inherited child processes.  Other lines are printed
after reaping all those tasks.

So fix it by flushing stdout before starting bench suites.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1357637966-8216-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-24 16:40:19 -03:00
Irina Tirdea 1d037ca164 perf tools: Use __maybe_used for unused variables
perf defines both __used and __unused variables to use for marking
unused variables. The variable __used is defined to
__attribute__((__unused__)), which contradicts the kernel definition to
__attribute__((__used__)) for new gcc versions. On Android, __used is
also defined in system headers and this leads to warnings like: warning:
'__used__' attribute ignored

__unused is not defined in the kernel and is not a standard definition.
If __unused is included everywhere instead of __used, this leads to
conflicts with glibc headers, since glibc has a variables with this name
in its headers.

The best approach is to use __maybe_unused, the definition used in the
kernel for __attribute__((unused)). In this way there is only one
definition in perf sources (instead of 2 definitions that point to the
same thing: __used and __unused) and it works on both Linux and Android.
This patch simply replaces all instances of __used and __unused with
__maybe_unused.

Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347315303-29906-7-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
[ committer note: fixed up conflict with a116e05 in builtin-sched.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-11 12:19:15 -03:00
Namhyung Kim 08942f6d5d perf bench: Documentation update
The current perf-bench documentation has a couple of typos and even
lacks entire description of mem subsystem. Fix it.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340172486-17805-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-06-27 13:17:48 -03:00
Jan Beulich be3de80dc2 perf bench: Also allow measuring memset()
This simply clones the respective memcpy() implementation.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F16D743020000780006D735@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-24 20:25:32 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo edb7c60e27 perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
OPT_SET_INT was renamed to OPT_SET_UINT since the only use in these
tools is to set something that has an enum type, that is builtin
compatible with unsigned int.

Several string constifications were done to make OPT_STRING require a
const char * type.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
Hitoshi Mitake 2044279d1e perf bench: Add "all" pseudo subsystem and "all" pseudo suite
This patch adds a new "all" pseudo subsystem and an "all" pseudo
suite. These are for testing all subsystem and its all suite, or
all suite of one subsystem.

(This patch also contains a few trivial comment fixes for
bench/* and output style fixes. I judged that there are no
necessity to make them into individual patch.)

Example of use:

| % ./perf bench sched all                      # Test all suites of sched subsystem
| # Running sched/messaging benchmark...
| # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
| # 10 groups == 400 processes run
|
|      Total time: 0.414 [sec]
|
| # Running sched/pipe benchmark...
| # Extecuted 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks
|
|      Total time: 10.999 [sec]
|
|       10.999317 usecs/op
|           90914 ops/sec
|
| % ./perf bench all                            # Test all suites of all subsystems
| # Running sched/messaging benchmark...
| # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
| # 10 groups == 400 processes run
|
|      Total time: 0.420 [sec]
|
| # Running sched/pipe benchmark...
| # Extecuted 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks
|
|      Total time: 11.741 [sec]
|
|       11.741346 usecs/op
|           85169 ops/sec
|
| # Running mem/memcpy benchmark...
| # Copying 1MB Bytes from 0x7ff33e920010 to 0x7ff3401ae010 ...
|
|      808.407437 MB/Sec

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260691319-4683-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 08:51:19 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake 827f3b4974 perf bench: Add memcpy() benchmark
'perf bench mem memcpy' is a benchmark suite for measuring memcpy()
performance.

Example on a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz:

| % perf bench mem memcpy -l 1GB
| # Running mem/memcpy benchmark...
| # Copying 1MB Bytes from 0xb7d98008 to 0xb7e99008 ...
|
|     726.216412 MB/Sec

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258471212-30281-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
[ v2: updated changelog, clarified history of builtin-bench.c ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-19 06:21:48 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake 79e295d4bd perf bench: Improve builtin-bench.c for more friendly output
This patch makes output of perf bench more friendly.
Current style of putput, keeping user wait
and printing everything suddenly when we finish,
may confuse users.

So I improved it:

 | % perf bench sched messaging
 | # Running sched/messaging benchmark...  <- printed right after invocation
 | # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
 | # 10 groups == 400 processes run
 |
 |      Total time: 1.476 [sec]

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257865442-20252-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-10 19:56:44 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake 386d7e9e54 perf bench: Modify builtin-bench.c for processing common options
This patch modifies builtin-bench.c for processing common
options. The first option added is "--format".
Users of perf bench will be able to specify output style by
--format.

Usage example:

 % ./perf bench sched messaging		# with no style specify
 (20 sender and receiver processes per group)
 (10 groups == 400 processes run)

         Total time:1.431 sec

 % ./perf bench --format=simple sched messaging # specified
 simple 1.431

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257808802-9420-3-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-10 04:53:48 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake 629cc35665 perf bench: Add builtin-bench.c: General framework for benchmark suites
This patch adds builtin-bench.c
builtin-bench.c is a general framework for benchmark suites.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257381097-4743-5-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:19:18 +01:00