| Hitoshi Mitake | 9fbc04f | 2009-11-10 20:50:54 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | perf-bench(1) | 
| Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 4778e0e | 2010-05-05 11:23:27 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | ============= | 
| Hitoshi Mitake | 9fbc04f | 2009-11-10 20:50:54 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 3 |  | 
|  | 4 | NAME | 
|  | 5 | ---- | 
|  | 6 | perf-bench - General framework for benchmark suites | 
|  | 7 |  | 
|  | 8 | SYNOPSIS | 
|  | 9 | -------- | 
|  | 10 | [verse] | 
|  | 11 | 'perf bench' [<common options>] <subsystem> <suite> [<options>] | 
|  | 12 |  | 
|  | 13 | DESCRIPTION | 
|  | 14 | ----------- | 
|  | 15 | This 'perf bench' command is general framework for benchmark suites. | 
|  | 16 |  | 
|  | 17 | COMMON OPTIONS | 
|  | 18 | -------------- | 
|  | 19 | -f:: | 
|  | 20 | --format=:: | 
|  | 21 | Specify format style. | 
| Randy Dunlap | 854c554 | 2010-03-31 11:31:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | Current available format styles are: | 
| Hitoshi Mitake | 9fbc04f | 2009-11-10 20:50:54 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 23 |  | 
|  | 24 | 'default':: | 
|  | 25 | Default style. This is mainly for human reading. | 
|  | 26 | --------------------- | 
| Randy Dunlap | 854c554 | 2010-03-31 11:31:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | % perf bench sched pipe                      # with no style specified | 
| Hitoshi Mitake | 9fbc04f | 2009-11-10 20:50:54 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | (executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks) | 
|  | 29 | Total time:5.855 sec | 
|  | 30 | 5.855061 usecs/op | 
|  | 31 | 170792 ops/sec | 
|  | 32 | --------------------- | 
|  | 33 |  | 
|  | 34 | 'simple':: | 
|  | 35 | This simple style is friendly for automated | 
|  | 36 | processing by scripts. | 
|  | 37 | --------------------- | 
|  | 38 | % perf bench --format=simple sched pipe      # specified simple | 
|  | 39 | 5.988 | 
|  | 40 | --------------------- | 
|  | 41 |  | 
|  | 42 | SUBSYSTEM | 
|  | 43 | --------- | 
|  | 44 |  | 
|  | 45 | 'sched':: | 
|  | 46 | Scheduler and IPC mechanisms. | 
|  | 47 |  | 
|  | 48 | SUITES FOR 'sched' | 
|  | 49 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 
|  | 50 | *messaging*:: | 
|  | 51 | Suite for evaluating performance of scheduler and IPC mechanisms. | 
|  | 52 | Based on hackbench by Rusty Russell. | 
|  | 53 |  | 
|  | 54 | Options of *pipe* | 
|  | 55 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | 
|  | 56 | -p:: | 
|  | 57 | --pipe:: | 
|  | 58 | Use pipe() instead of socketpair() | 
|  | 59 |  | 
|  | 60 | -t:: | 
|  | 61 | --thread:: | 
|  | 62 | Be multi thread instead of multi process | 
|  | 63 |  | 
|  | 64 | -g:: | 
|  | 65 | --group=:: | 
|  | 66 | Specify number of groups | 
|  | 67 |  | 
|  | 68 | -l:: | 
|  | 69 | --loop=:: | 
|  | 70 | Specify number of loops | 
|  | 71 |  | 
|  | 72 | Example of *messaging* | 
|  | 73 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | 
|  | 74 |  | 
|  | 75 | --------------------- | 
|  | 76 | % perf bench sched messaging                 # run with default | 
|  | 77 | options (20 sender and receiver processes per group) | 
|  | 78 | (10 groups == 400 processes run) | 
|  | 79 |  | 
|  | 80 | Total time:0.308 sec | 
|  | 81 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 854c554 | 2010-03-31 11:31:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | % perf bench sched messaging -t -g 20        # be multi-thread, with 20 groups | 
| Hitoshi Mitake | 9fbc04f | 2009-11-10 20:50:54 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | (20 sender and receiver threads per group) | 
|  | 84 | (20 groups == 800 threads run) | 
|  | 85 |  | 
|  | 86 | Total time:0.582 sec | 
|  | 87 | --------------------- | 
|  | 88 |  | 
|  | 89 | *pipe*:: | 
|  | 90 | Suite for pipe() system call. | 
|  | 91 | Based on pipe-test-1m.c by Ingo Molnar. | 
|  | 92 |  | 
|  | 93 | Options of *pipe* | 
|  | 94 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | 
|  | 95 | -l:: | 
|  | 96 | --loop=:: | 
|  | 97 | Specify number of loops. | 
|  | 98 |  | 
|  | 99 | Example of *pipe* | 
|  | 100 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | 
|  | 101 |  | 
|  | 102 | --------------------- | 
|  | 103 | % perf bench sched pipe | 
|  | 104 | (executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks) | 
|  | 105 |  | 
|  | 106 | Total time:8.091 sec | 
|  | 107 | 8.091833 usecs/op | 
|  | 108 | 123581 ops/sec | 
|  | 109 |  | 
|  | 110 | % perf bench sched pipe -l 1000              # loop 1000 | 
|  | 111 | (executing 1000 pipe operations between two tasks) | 
|  | 112 |  | 
|  | 113 | Total time:0.016 sec | 
|  | 114 | 16.948000 usecs/op | 
|  | 115 | 59004 ops/sec | 
|  | 116 | --------------------- | 
|  | 117 |  | 
|  | 118 | SEE ALSO | 
|  | 119 | -------- | 
|  | 120 | linkperf:perf[1] |