The usefulness of having a standard way of testing syscall performance
has come up from time to time[0]. Furthermore, some of our testing
machinery (such as 'mmtests') already makes use of a simplified version
of the microbenchmark. This patch mainly takes the same idea to measure
syscall throughput compatible with 'perf-bench' via getppid(2), yet
without any of the additional template stuff from Ingo's version (based
on numa.c). The code is identical to what mmtests uses.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160201074156.GA27156@gmail.com/
Committer notes:
Add mising stdlib.h and unistd.h to get the prototypes for exit() and
getppid().
Committer testing:
$ perf bench
Usage:
perf bench [<common options>] <collection> <benchmark> [<options>]
# List of all available benchmark collections:
sched: Scheduler and IPC benchmarks
syscall: System call benchmarks
mem: Memory access benchmarks
numa: NUMA scheduling and MM benchmarks
futex: Futex stressing benchmarks
epoll: Epoll stressing benchmarks
internals: Perf-internals benchmarks
all: All benchmarks
$
$ perf bench syscall
# List of available benchmarks for collection 'syscall':
basic: Benchmark for basic getppid(2) calls
all: Run all syscall benchmarks
$ perf bench syscall basic
# Running 'syscall/basic' benchmark:
# Executed 10000000 getppid() calls
Total time: 3.679 [sec]
0.367957 usecs/op
2717708 ops/sec
$ perf bench syscall all
# Running syscall/basic benchmark...
# Executed 10000000 getppid() calls
Total time: 3.644 [sec]
0.364456 usecs/op
2743815 ops/sec
$
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190308181747.l36zqz2avtivrr3c@linux-r8p5
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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