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8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Joseph Myers
b168057aaa Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2015-01-02 16:29:47 +00:00
Richard Henderson
428dd03f5a Remove HP_TIMING_DIFF_INIT and dl_hp_timing_overhead
Without HP_TIMING_ACCUM, dl_hp_timing_overhead is write-only.
If we remove it, there's no point in HP_TIMING_DIFF_INIT either.
2014-07-03 08:38:25 -07:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
cb5e4aada7 Make bench.out in json format
This patch changes the output format of the main benchmark output file
(bench.out) to an extensible format.  I chose JSON over XML because in
addition to being extensible, it is also not too verbose.
Additionally it has good support in python.

The significant change I have made in terms of functionality is to put
timing information as an attribute in JSON instead of a string and to
do that, there is a separate program that prints out a JSON snippet
mentioning the type of timing (hp_timing or clock_gettime).  The mean
timing has now changed from iterations per unit to actual timing per
iteration.
2014-03-29 09:37:44 +05:30
Allan McRae
d4697bc93d Update copyright notices with scripts/update-copyrights 2014-01-01 22:00:23 +10:00
Steve Ellcey
e8470ea216 2013-11-13 Steve Ellcey <sellcey@mips.com>
* benchtests/bench-timing.h: Include time.h.
2013-11-13 08:48:25 -08:00
Will Newton
b987c77672 benchtests: Rename argument to TIMING_INIT macro.
The TIMING_INIT macro currently sets the number of loop iterations
to 1000, which limits usefulness. Make the argument a clock
resolution value and multiply by 1000 in bench-skeleton.c instead
to allow easier reuse.

ChangeLog:

2013-09-11  Will Newton  <will.newton@linaro.org>

	* benchtests/bench-timing.h (TIMING_INIT): Rename ITERS
	parameter to RES. Remove hardcoded 1000 value.
	* benchtests/bench-skeleton.c (main): Pass RES parameter
	to TIMING_INIT and multiply result by 1000.
2013-09-11 15:18:20 +01:00
Will Newton
44558701ff benchtests: Switch string benchmarks to use bench-timing.h.
Switch the string benchmarks to using bench-timing.h instead
of hp-timing.h directly. This allows the string benchmarks to
be run usefully on architectures such as ARM that do not have
support for hp-timing.h.

In order to do this the tests have been changed from timing each
individual call and picking the lowest execution time recorded to
timing a number of calls and taking the mean execution time.

ChangeLog:

2013-09-04   Will Newton  <will.newton@linaro.org>

	* benchtests/bench-timing.h (TIMING_PRINT_MEAN): New macro.
	* benchtests/bench-string.h: Include bench-timing.h instead
	of including hp-timing.h directly. (INNER_LOOP_ITERS): New
	define. (HP_TIMING_BEST): Delete macro. (test_init): Remove
	call to HP_TIMING_DIFF_INIT.
	* benchtests/bench-memccpy.c: Use bench-timing.h macros
	instead of hp-timing.h macros.
	* benchtests/bench-memchr.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-memcmp.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-memcpy.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-memmem.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-memmove.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-memset.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-rawmemchr.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strcasecmp.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strcasestr.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strcat.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strchr.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strcmp.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strcpy.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strcpy_chk.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strlen.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strncasecmp.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strncat.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strncmp.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strncpy.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strnlen.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strpbrk.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strrchr.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strspn.c: Likewise.
	* benchtests/bench-strstr.c: Likewise.
2013-09-04 15:40:12 +01:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
43fe811b73 Use HP_TIMING for benchmarks if available
HP_TIMING uses native timestamping instructions if available, thus
greatly reducing the overhead of recording start and end times for
function calls.  For architectures that don't have HP_TIMING
available, we fall back to the clock_gettime bits.  One may also
override this by invoking the benchmark as follows:

  make USE_CLOCK_GETTIME=1 bench

and get the benchmark results using clock_gettime.  One has to do
`make bench-clean` to ensure that the benchmark programs are rebuilt.
2013-05-13 13:44:32 +05:30