linux/tools
Alexei Starovoitov c4781e37c6 selftests/bpf: Add BPF trampoline performance test
Add a test that benchmarks different ways of attaching BPF program to a kernel function.
Here are the results for 2.4Ghz x86 cpu on a kernel without mitigations:
$ ./test_progs -n 49 -v|grep events
task_rename base	2743K events per sec
task_rename kprobe	2419K events per sec
task_rename kretprobe	1876K events per sec
task_rename raw_tp	2578K events per sec
task_rename fentry	2710K events per sec
task_rename fexit	2685K events per sec

On a kernel with retpoline:
$ ./test_progs -n 49 -v|grep events
task_rename base	2401K events per sec
task_rename kprobe	1930K events per sec
task_rename kretprobe	1485K events per sec
task_rename raw_tp	2053K events per sec
task_rename fentry	2351K events per sec
task_rename fexit	2185K events per sec

All 5 approaches:
- kprobe/kretprobe in __set_task_comm()
- raw tracepoint in trace_task_rename()
- fentry/fexit in __set_task_comm()
are roughly equivalent.

__set_task_comm() by itself is quite fast, so any extra instructions add up.
Until BPF trampoline was introduced the fastest mechanism was raw tracepoint.
kprobe via ftrace was second best. kretprobe is slow due to trap. New
fentry/fexit methods via BPF trampoline are clearly the fastest and the
difference is more pronounced with retpoline on, since BPF trampoline doesn't
use indirect jumps.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191122011515.255371-1-ast@kernel.org
2019-11-24 16:58:46 -08:00
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accounting
arch tools headers kvm: Sync kvm headers with the kernel sources 2019-10-15 12:30:08 -03:00
bpf tools, bpf: Fix build for 'make -s tools/bpf O=<dir>' 2019-11-24 16:58:45 -08:00
build tools build: Add capability-related feature detection 2019-08-12 17:14:14 -03:00
cgroup iocost_monitor: Report debt 2019-09-10 12:31:39 -06:00
debugging
firewire
firmware Driver Core and debugfs changes for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-12 12:24:03 -07:00
gpio tools: gpio: Correctly add make dependencies for gpio_utils 2019-11-13 13:46:04 +01:00
hv - First round of vmbus hibernation support from Dexuan Cui. 2019-09-24 12:36:31 -07:00
iio tools: iio: add .gitignore 2019-08-18 20:45:57 +01:00
include bpf: Add mmap() support for BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY 2019-11-18 11:41:59 +01:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds leds: core: Add support for composing LED class device names 2019-07-25 20:07:52 +02:00
lib libbpf: Fix bpf_object name determination for bpf_object__open_file() 2019-11-24 16:58:46 -08:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Update the informal documentation 2019-08-09 10:28:57 -07:00
nfsd
objtool KVM: x86: Check kvm_rebooting in kvm_spurious_fault() 2019-09-25 15:23:33 +02:00
pci pci-v5.3-changes 2019-07-15 20:44:49 -07:00
pcmcia
perf Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-10 11:55:53 -08:00
power platform-drivers-x86 for v5.4-2 2019-09-24 12:39:40 -07:00
scripts perf build: Do not use -Wshadow on gcc < 4.8 2019-07-23 09:04:54 -03:00
spi
testing selftests/bpf: Add BPF trampoline performance test 2019-11-24 16:58:46 -08:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usbip: tools: Fix read_usb_vudc_device() error path handling 2019-10-28 17:51:06 +01:00
virtio tools/virtio: xen stub 2019-10-13 09:38:27 -04:00
vm tools/vm/slabinfo: add sorting info to help menu 2019-07-12 11:05:46 -07:00
wmi
Makefile tools: Keep list of tools in alphabetical order 2019-08-14 10:59:59 -03:00