Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] perf bench syscall: Add close syscall benchmark

[Ian Rogers]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 12:42 AM Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This commit adds a simple close syscall benchmark, more syscall
> benchmarks can be added in the future.
>
> Here are the test results:
>
>   [loongson@linux perf]$ ./perf bench syscall
>
>           # List of available benchmarks for collection 'syscall':
>
>            basic: Benchmark for basic getppid(2) calls
>            close: Benchmark for close(2) calls
>              all: Run all syscall benchmarks
>
>   [loongson@linux perf]$ ./perf bench syscall basic
>   # Running 'syscall/basic' benchmark:
>   # Executed 10000000 getppid() calls
>        Total time: 1.956 [sec]
>
>          0.195687 usecs/op
>           5110201 ops/sec
>   [loongson@linux perf]$ ./perf bench syscall close
>   # Running 'syscall/close' benchmark:
>   # Executed 10000000 close() calls
>        Total time: 6.302 [sec]
>
>          0.630297 usecs/op
>           1586553 ops/sec
>   [loongson@linux perf]$ ./perf bench syscall all
>   # Running syscall/basic benchmark...
>   # Executed 10000000 getppid() calls
>        Total time: 1.956 [sec]
>
>          0.195686 usecs/op
>           5110232 ops/sec
>
>   # Running syscall/close benchmark...
>   # Executed 10000000 close() calls
>        Total time: 6.302 [sec]
>
>          0.630271 usecs/op
>           1586619 ops/sec
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_32.h |  3 +++
>  tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_64.h |  3 +++
>  tools/perf/bench/bench.h                    |  1 +
>  tools/perf/bench/syscall.c                  | 11 +++++++++++
>  tools/perf/builtin-bench.c                  |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_32.h b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_32.h
> index 4a480a0..2f24b0eb 100644
> --- a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_32.h
> +++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_32.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
>  #ifndef __NR_perf_event_open
>  # define __NR_perf_event_open 336
>  #endif
> +#ifndef __NR_close
> +# define __NR_close 6
> +#endif
>  #ifndef __NR_futex
>  # define __NR_futex 240
>  #endif
> diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_64.h b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_64.h
> index 860257f..8eb32b2 100644
> --- a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_64.h
> +++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd_64.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
>  #ifndef __NR_perf_event_open
>  # define __NR_perf_event_open 298
>  #endif
> +#ifndef __NR_close
> +# define __NR_close 3
> +#endif
>  #ifndef __NR_futex
>  # define __NR_futex 202
>  #endif
> diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
> index 6cefb43..916cd47 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ int bench_numa(int argc, const char **argv);
>  int bench_sched_messaging(int argc, const char **argv);
>  int bench_sched_pipe(int argc, const char **argv);
>  int bench_syscall_basic(int argc, const char **argv);
> +int bench_syscall_close(int argc, const char **argv);
>  int bench_mem_memcpy(int argc, const char **argv);
>  int bench_mem_memset(int argc, const char **argv);
>  int bench_mem_find_bit(int argc, const char **argv);
> diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/syscall.c b/tools/perf/bench/syscall.c
> index 746fd71..058394b 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/bench/syscall.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/bench/syscall.c
> @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ static int bench_syscall_common(int argc, const char **argv, int syscall)
>                 case __NR_getppid:
>                         getppid();
>                         break;
> +               case __NR_close:
> +                       close(dup(0));

Thanks for contributing! This benchmark will compute the cost of close
and dup, naively dup could perform memory allocation and be slow.
Perhaps a number of file descriptors could be made outside of the
timed region?

Thanks,
Ian
> +                       break;
>                 default:
>                         break;
>                 }
> @@ -58,6 +61,9 @@ static int bench_syscall_common(int argc, const char **argv, int syscall)
>         case __NR_getppid:
>                 name = "getppid()";
>                 break;
> +       case __NR_close:
> +               name = "close()";
> +               break;
>         default:
>                 break;
>         }
> @@ -100,3 +106,8 @@ int bench_syscall_basic(int argc, const char **argv)
>  {
>         return bench_syscall_common(argc, argv, __NR_getppid);
>  }
> +
> +int bench_syscall_close(int argc, const char **argv)
> +{
> +       return bench_syscall_common(argc, argv, __NR_close);
> +}
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
> index 334ab89..b63c711 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static struct bench sched_benchmarks[] = {
>
>  static struct bench syscall_benchmarks[] = {
>         { "basic",      "Benchmark for basic getppid(2) calls",         bench_syscall_basic     },
> +       { "close",      "Benchmark for close(2) calls",                 bench_syscall_close     },
>         { "all",        "Run all syscall benchmarks",                   NULL                    },
>         { NULL,         NULL,                                           NULL                    },
>  };
> --
> 2.1.0
>