linux-kernel - Re: collecting simple benchmark scripts?

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Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:06:53 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>
Cc:     Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>,
        Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: collecting simple benchmark scripts?

Hi!

> In a separate thread, some folks were looking for some simple
> benchmarks for evaluating various changes to kernel internals (as
> opposed to the much more focused things like xfstests). For me, this
> has been an area of lore and passed-around scripts, and it seems like
> maybe we should have a subdirectory of tools/testing/benchmarks/ or
> something to collect these?
> 
> (Or maybe this already exists and I've totally missed it?)
> 
> I've got at least one micro-benchmark in
> tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_benchmark.c, and searches show
> tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c too, but I was thinking of
> either more generali things more like the famous "kernel build
> benchmark" or a wrapper for running hackbench to get some statistics
> out of it, etc.

Ok, I guess my micro-benchmark is too micro for you, but I like to use

"time cat /dev/urandom | head -c 10000000 |  bzip2 -9 - | wc -c"

I have a page with various results online somewhere, probably at

http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/quickbench.html


									Pavel
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