Adjust iteration counts so benchmarks don't run too slowly or quickly.
Ensure benchmarks take less than 10 seconds on older, slower cores and
more than 0.5 seconds on fast cores.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Zero is a relevant size for some workloads (roughly 5% of uses for
GCC) so we should be testing it's performance as well.
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
No bug.
This commit adds new medium size cases for lengths in [512, 1024). As
well it increase the iters to INNER_LOOP_ITERS_LARGE for more reliable
results.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
No bug. This commit adds tests cases and benchmarks for page cross and
for memset to the end of the page without crossing. As well in
test-memset.c this commit adds sentinel on start/end of tstbuf to test
for overwrites
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
This patch updates json "bench-variant" attribute of "bench-memset.c"
to "default" so that the script "benchtests/scripts/plot_strings.py"
can generate a file "memset_time_default_linear.png".
Without this patch, the script "benchtests/scripts/plot_strings.py"
generates a file "memset_time__linear.png" which has inconsistent form
with "memcpy_time_default_linear.png" and
"memmove_time_default_linear.png".
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
Use the generic C memset/memcpy/memmove in benchtests since comparing
against a slow byte-oriented implementation makes no sense.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2019-08-29 Wilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr@arm.com>
* benchtests/bench-memcpy.c (simple_memcpy): Remove.
(generic_memcpy): Include generic C memcpy.
* benchtests/bench-memmove.c (simple_memmove): Remove.
(generic_memmove): Include generic C memmove.
* benchtests/bench-memset.c (simple_memset): Remove.
(generic_memset): Include generic C memset.
* benchtests/bench-memset-large.c (simple_memset): Remove.
(generic_memset): Include generic C memset.
* benchtests/bench-memset-walk.c (simple_memset): Remove.
(generic_memset): Include generic C memset.
* string/memcpy.c (MEMCPY): Add defines to enable redirection.
* string/memset.c (MEMSET): Likewise.
* sysdeps/x86_64/memcopy.h: Remove empty file.
Drop realloc_bufs in favour of making alloc_bufs transparently
reallocate the buffers if it had allocated before. Also consolidate
computation of buffer lengths so that they don't get repeated on every
reallocation.
* benchtests/bench-string.h (buf1_size, buf2_size): New
variables.
(init_sizes): New function.
(test_init): Use it.
(alloc_buf, exit_error): New functions.
(alloc_bufs): Use ALLOC_BUF.
(realloc_bufs): Remove.
* benchtests/bench-memcmp.c (do_test): Adjust.
* benchtests/bench-memset-large.c (do_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memset-walk.c (do_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memset.c (do_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncmp.c (do_test): Likewise.
Keeping the same buffers along with copying the same size of data into
the same location means that the first routine is typically the
slowest since it has to bear the cost of fetching data into to cache.
Reallocating buffers stabilizes numbers by a bit.
* benchtests/bench-string.h (realloc_bufs): New function.
(test_init): Call it.
* benchtests/bench-memset-large.c (do_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memset.c (do_test): Likewise.
Make the memset benchmarks (bench-memset and bench-memset-large) print
their output in JSON so that they can be evaluated using the
compare_strings.py script.
* benchtests/bench-memset-large.c: Print output in JSON
format.
* benchtests/bench-memset.c: Likewise.
The test run is unnecessary and interferes with the benchmark. The
tests are done during make check, so they're unnecessary here.
* benchtests/bench-memccpy.c (do_one_test): Remove checks.
* benchtests/bench-memchr.c (do_one_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memcpy-large.c (do_one_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memcpy.c (do_one_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memmove-large.c (do_one_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memmove.c (do_one_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memset-large.c (do_one_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memset.c (do_one_test): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-string.h (test_init): Remove memsets.
This patch adds an optimized memset implementation for POWER8. For
sizes from 0 to 255 bytes, a word/doubleword algorithm similar to
POWER7 optimized one is used.
For size higher than 255 two strategies are used:
1. If the constant is different than 0, the memory is written with
altivec vector instruction;
2. If constant is 0, dbcz instructions are used. The loop is unrolled
to clear 512 byte at time.
Using vector instructions increases throughput considerable, with a
double performance for sizes larger than 1024. The dcbz loops unrolls
also shows performance improvement, by doubling throughput for sizes
larger than 8192 bytes.
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.
Check wheter the compiler has the option -fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns
to inhibit loop transformation to library calls and uses it on memset
and memmove default implementation to avoid recursive calls.
