NAME¶

perf-bench - General framework for benchmark suites

SYNOPSIS¶

perf bench [<common options>] <subsystem> <suite> [<options>]

DESCRIPTION¶

This perf bench command is general framework for benchmark suites.

COMMON OPTIONS¶

-f, --format=

Specify format style. Current available format styles are:

default

Default style. This is mainly for human reading.


.ft C
% perf bench sched pipe                      # with no style specified
(executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks)
        Total time:5.855 sec
                5.855061 usecs/op
                170792 ops/sec
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simple

This simple style is friendly for automated processing by scripts.


.ft C
% perf bench --format=simple sched pipe      # specified simple
5.988
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SUBSYSTEM¶

sched

Scheduler and IPC mechanisms.

SUITES FOR sched¶

messaging

Suite for evaluating performance of scheduler and IPC mechanisms. Based on hackbench by Rusty Russell.

Options of pipe

-p, --pipe

Use pipe() instead of socketpair()

-t, --thread

Be multi thread instead of multi process

-g, --group=

Specify number of groups

-l, --loop=

Specify number of loops

Example of messaging


.ft C
% perf bench sched messaging                 # run with default
options (20 sender and receiver processes per group)
(10 groups == 400 processes run)

      Total time:0.308 sec

% perf bench sched messaging -t -g 20        # be multi-thread, with 20 groups
(20 sender and receiver threads per group)
(20 groups == 800 threads run)

      Total time:0.582 sec
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pipe

Suite for pipe() system call. Based on pipe-test-1m.c by Ingo Molnar.