linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf bench syscall: Add close syscall benchmark

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Date:   Tue, 6 Sep 2022 12:27:00 +0800
From:   Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:     "linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org" <linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf bench syscall: Add close syscall benchmark



On 09/06/2022 11:30 AM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Tiezhu Yang
>> Sent: 06 September 2022 04:06
>>
>> This commit adds a simple close syscall benchmark, more syscall
>> benchmarks can be added in the future.
>>
> ...
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
>> ---
>>  tools/perf/bench/bench.h   |  1 +
>>  tools/perf/bench/syscall.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>  tools/perf/builtin-bench.c |  1 +
>>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
>> index 6cefb43..916cd47 100644
> ...
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/syscall.c b/tools/perf/bench/syscall.c
>> index 746fd71..058394b 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/bench/syscall.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/bench/syscall.c
>> @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ static int bench_syscall_common(int argc, const char **argv, int syscall)
>>  		case __NR_getppid:
>>  			getppid();
>>  			break;
>> +		case __NR_close:
>> +			close(dup(0));
>
> Not really a close() test.
> The dup(0) call will be significant and may take longer.
>
> I'm also not sure that using the syscall number for the
> test number is entirely sensible.
>
> One thing I have measured in the past is the time taken
> to read in an iov[] array.
> This can be measured quite nicely using writev() on /dev/null.
> (No copies ever happen and iov_iter() is never used.)
> But you need to test a few different iov lengths.
>
> I'm also not 100% sure how accurate/repeatable/sensible it
> is to use the 'wall clock time' for 1000000 iterations.
> A lot of modern cpu will dynamically change the clock speed
> underneath you and other system code (like ethernet receive)
> can badly perturb the results.
>
> What you really want to use is a TSC - but they are now
> useless for counting cycles.
> The x86 performance counters to have a cycle counter.
> I've used that to measure single calls of both library
> functions and system calls.
> Just 10 iterations give a 'cold cache' value and some
> very consistent counts (remove real outliers).
> Indeed the fastest value is really the right one.
>
> For functions like the IP checksum you can even
> show that the code is executing in the expected number
> of clock cycles (usually limited by memory reads).
>
> 	David
>
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>

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply.

There are some explanations in commit c2a08203052f ("perf bench:
Add basic syscall benchmark"), I presume the current benchmark
framework works well, if not, maybe we should modify the framework
first.

The initial aim of this patch series is to benchmark more syscalls,
some code is similar with the UnixBench syscall test [1].

[1] 
https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench/blob/master/UnixBench/src/syscall.c

Thanks,
Tiezhu