linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] Adding general performance benchmarking subcommand to perf.

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Message-ID: <20091103172926.GC11535@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:29:26 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Frédéric_Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] Adding general performance benchmarking
	subcommand to perf.


* Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp> wrote:

> 
> Adding general performance benchmarking subcommand to perf.
> This patch adds bench/sched-pipe.c.
> 
> bench/sched-pipe.c is a benchmark program
> to measure performance of pipe() system call.
> This benchmark is based on pipe-test-1m.c by Ingo Molnar.
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/pipe-test-1m.c
> 
> Example of use:
> % perf bench sched pipe               # Use default options
> 4.575  	     	   		      # Result is time
> % perf bench sched pipe -l 2000	      # This option means "loop 2000 counts"
> 0.024

ok, -l makes sense.

Shouldnt we output the unit of measurement, i.e. '4.575 usecs'? Also, we 
should perhaps print something like:

  % perf bench sched pipe

  (executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks)

     4.575 usecs per op
    218579 ops/sec   

?

	Ingo
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