[PATCH 3/3] perf-bench: add futex-requeue microbenchmark

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Sat Dec 14 2013 - 23:32:28 EST


Block a bunch of threads on a futex and requeue them on another, N at a time.

This program is particularly useful to measure the latency of nthread requeues
without waking up any tasks -- thus mimicking a regular futex_wait.
An example run:

$ perf bench futex requeue -r 100 -t 64
Run summary [PID 151011]: Requeuing 64 threads (from 0x7d15c4 to 0x7d15c8), 1 at a time.

[Run 1]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0400 ms
[Run 2]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0390 ms
[Run 3]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0400 ms
...
[Run 100]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0390 ms
Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0399 ms (+-0.37%)

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 1 +
tools/perf/bench/bench.h | 1 +
tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c | 211 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/bench/futex.h | 13 +++
tools/perf/builtin-bench.c | 1 +
5 files changed, 227 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index f2e3536..9dd2c19 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ BUILTIN_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)bench/mem-memcpy.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)bench/mem-memset.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)bench/futex-hash.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)bench/futex-wake.o
+BUILTIN_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)bench/futex-requeue.o

BUILTIN_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)builtin-diff.o
BUILTIN_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)builtin-evlist.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
index 6ac3f1d..eba4670 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ extern int bench_mem_memcpy(int argc, const char **argv,
extern int bench_mem_memset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int bench_futex_hash(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int bench_futex_wake(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
+extern int bench_futex_requeue(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);

#define BENCH_FORMAT_DEFAULT_STR "default"
#define BENCH_FORMAT_DEFAULT 0
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c b/tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1625587
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c
@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>
+ *
+ * futex-requeue: Block a bunch of threads on futex1 and requeue them
+ * on futex2, N at a time.
+ *
+ * This program is particularly useful to measure the latency of nthread
+ * requeues without waking up any tasks -- thus mimicking a regular futex_wait.
+ */
+
+#include "../perf.h"
+#include "../util/util.h"
+#include "../util/stat.h"
+#include "../util/parse-options.h"
+#include "../util/header.h"
+#include "bench.h"
+#include "futex.h"
+
+#include <err.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+
+static u_int32_t futex1 = 0, futex2 = 0;
+
+/*
+ * How many tasks to requeue at a time.
+ * Default to 1 in order to make the kernel work more.
+ */
+static unsigned int nrequeue = 1;
+
+/*
+ * There can be significant variance from run to run,
+ * the more repeats, the more exact the overall avg and
+ * the better idea of the futex latency.
+ */
+static unsigned int repeat = 10;
+
+static pthread_t *worker;
+static bool done = 0, silent = 0;
+static pthread_mutex_t thread_lock;
+static pthread_cond_t thread_parent, thread_worker;
+static struct stats requeuetime_stats, requeued_stats;
+static unsigned int ncpus, threads_starting, nthreads = 0;
+
+static const struct option options[] = {
+ OPT_UINTEGER('t', "threads", &nthreads, "Specify amount of threads"),
+ OPT_UINTEGER('q', "nrequeue", &nrequeue, "Specify amount of threads to requeue at once"),
+ OPT_UINTEGER('r', "repeat", &repeat, "Specify amount of times to repeat the run"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN( 's', "silent", &silent, "Silent mode: do not display data/details"),
+ OPT_END()
+};
+
+static const char * const bench_futex_requeue_usage[] = {
+ "perf bench futex requeue <options>",
+ NULL
+};
+
+static void print_summary(void)
+{
+ double requeuetime_avg = avg_stats(&requeuetime_stats);
+ double requeuetime_stddev = stddev_stats(&requeuetime_stats);
+ unsigned int requeued_avg = avg_stats(&requeued_stats);
+
+ printf("Requeued %d of %d threads in %.4f ms (+-%.2f%%)\n",
+ requeued_avg,
+ nthreads,
+ requeuetime_avg/1e3,
+ rel_stddev_stats(requeuetime_stddev, requeuetime_avg));
+}
+
+static void *workerfn(void *arg __maybe_unused)
+{
+ pthread_mutex_lock(&thread_lock);
+ threads_starting--;
+ if (!threads_starting)
+ pthread_cond_signal(&thread_parent);
+ pthread_cond_wait(&thread_worker, &thread_lock);
+ pthread_mutex_unlock(&thread_lock);
+
+ futex_wait(&futex1, 0, NULL, FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+static void block_threads(pthread_t *w,
+ pthread_attr_t thread_attr)
+{
+ cpu_set_t cpu;
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ threads_starting = nthreads;
+
+ /* create and block all threads */
+ for (i = 0; i < nthreads; i++) {
+ CPU_ZERO(&cpu);
+ CPU_SET(i % ncpus, &cpu);
+
+ if (pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(&thread_attr, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpu))
+ err(EXIT_FAILURE, "pthread_attr_setaffinity_np");
+
+ if (pthread_create(&w[i], &thread_attr, workerfn, NULL))
+ err(EXIT_FAILURE, "pthread_create");
+ }
+}
+
+static void toggle_done(int sig __maybe_unused,
+ siginfo_t *info __maybe_unused,
+ void *uc __maybe_unused)
+{
+ done = true;
+}
+
+int bench_futex_requeue(int argc, const char **argv,
+ const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
+{
+ int ret = 0;
+ unsigned int i, j;
+ struct sigaction act;
+ pthread_attr_t thread_attr;
+
+ argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, bench_futex_requeue_usage, 0);
+ if (argc)
+ goto err;
+
+ ncpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
+
+ sigfillset(&act.sa_mask);
+ act.sa_sigaction = toggle_done;
+ sigaction(SIGINT, &act, NULL);
+
+ if (!nthreads)
+ nthreads = ncpus;
+
+ worker = calloc(nthreads, sizeof(*worker));
+ if (!worker)
+ err(EXIT_FAILURE, "calloc");
+
+ printf("Run summary [PID %d]: Requeuing %d threads (from %p to %p), "
+ "%d at a time.\n\n",
+ getpid(), nthreads, &futex1, &futex2, nrequeue);
+
+ init_stats(&requeued_stats);
+ init_stats(&requeuetime_stats);
+ pthread_attr_init(&thread_attr);
+ pthread_mutex_init(&thread_lock, NULL);
+ pthread_cond_init(&thread_parent, NULL);
+ pthread_cond_init(&thread_worker, NULL);
+
+ for (j = 0; j < repeat && !done; j++) {
+ unsigned int nrequeued = 0;
+ struct timeval start, end, runtime;
+
+ /* create, launch & block all threads */
+ block_threads(worker, thread_attr);
+
+ /* make sure all threads are already blocked */
+ pthread_mutex_lock(&thread_lock);
+ while (threads_starting)
+ pthread_cond_wait(&thread_parent, &thread_lock);
+ pthread_cond_broadcast(&thread_worker);
+ pthread_mutex_unlock(&thread_lock);
+
+ usleep(100000);
+
+ /* Ok, all threads are patiently blocked, start requeueing */
+ gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
+ for (nrequeued = 0; nrequeued < nthreads; nrequeued += nrequeue)
+ /*
+ * Do not wakeup any tasks blocked on futex1, allowing
+ * us to really measure futex_wait functionality.
+ */
+ futex_cmp_requeue(&futex1, 0, &futex2, 0, nrequeue,
+ FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG);
+ gettimeofday(&end, NULL);
+ timersub(&end, &start, &runtime);
+
+ update_stats(&requeued_stats, nrequeued);
+ update_stats(&requeuetime_stats, runtime.tv_usec);
+
+ if (!silent) {
+ printf("[Run %d]: Requeued %d of %d threads in %.4f ms\n",
+ j + 1, nrequeued, nthreads, runtime.tv_usec/1e3);
+ }
+
+ /* everybody should be blocked on futex2, wake'em up */
+ nrequeued = futex_wake(&futex2, nthreads, FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG);
+ if (nthreads != nrequeued)
+ warnx("couldn't wakeup all tasks (%d/%d)", nrequeued, nthreads);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nthreads; i++) {
+ ret = pthread_join(worker[i], NULL);
+ if (ret)
+ err(EXIT_FAILURE, "pthread_join");
+ }
+
+ }
+
+ /* cleanup & report results */
+ pthread_cond_destroy(&thread_parent);
+ pthread_cond_destroy(&thread_worker);
+ pthread_mutex_destroy(&thread_lock);
+ pthread_attr_destroy(&thread_attr);
+
+ print_summary();
+
+ free(worker);
+ return ret;
+err:
+ usage_with_options(bench_futex_requeue_usage, options);
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/futex.h b/tools/perf/bench/futex.h
index 6ac4509..71f2844 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/futex.h
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/futex.h
@@ -55,4 +55,17 @@ futex_wake(u_int32_t *uaddr, int nr_wake, int opflags)
return futex(uaddr, FUTEX_WAKE, nr_wake, NULL, NULL, 0, opflags);
}

+/**
+* futex_cmp_requeue() - requeue tasks from uaddr to uaddr2
+* @nr_wake: wake up to this many tasks
+* @nr_requeue: requeue up to this many tasks
+*/
+static inline int
+futex_cmp_requeue(u_int32_t *uaddr, u_int32_t val, u_int32_t *uaddr2, int nr_wake,
+ int nr_requeue, int opflags)
+{
+ return futex(uaddr, FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE, nr_wake, nr_requeue, uaddr2,
+ val, opflags);
+}
+
#endif /* _FUTEX_H */
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
index 743a30a..f600b74 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static struct bench mem_benchmarks[] = {
static struct bench futex_benchmarks[] = {
{ "hash", "Benchmark for futex hash table", bench_futex_hash },
{ "wake", "Benchmark for futex wake calls", bench_futex_wake },
+ { "requeue", "Benchmark for futex requeue calls", bench_futex_requeue },
{ "all", "Test all futex benchmarks", NULL },
{ NULL, NULL, NULL }
};
--
1.8.1.4

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