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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 17:14:38 +1100 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 17:14:38 +1100 |
commit | bcd6acd51f3d4d1ada201e9bc5c40a31d6d80c71 (patch) | |
tree | 2f6dffd2d3e4dd67355a224de7e7a960335a92fd /tools | |
parent | 11c34c7deaeeebcee342cbc35e1bb2a6711b2431 (diff) | |
parent | 3ff6a468b45b5dfeb0e903e56f4eb27d34b2437c (diff) |
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
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diff --git a/tools/perf/.gitignore b/tools/perf/.gitignore index 0854f110bf7..fe08660ce0b 100644 --- a/tools/perf/.gitignore +++ b/tools/perf/.gitignore @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ perf*.1 perf*.xml perf*.html common-cmds.h +perf.data tags TAGS cscope* diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ae525ac5a2c --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +perf-bench(1) +============ + +NAME +---- +perf-bench - General framework for benchmark suites + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf bench' [<common options>] <subsystem> <suite> [<options>] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +This 'perf bench' command is general framework for benchmark suites. + +COMMON OPTIONS +-------------- +-f:: +--format=:: +Specify format style. +Current available format styles are, + +'default':: +Default style. This is mainly for human reading. +--------------------- +% perf bench sched pipe # with no style specify +(executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks) + Total time:5.855 sec + 5.855061 usecs/op + 170792 ops/sec +--------------------- + +'simple':: +This simple style is friendly for automated +processing by scripts. +--------------------- +% perf bench --format=simple sched pipe # specified simple +5.988 +--------------------- + +SUBSYSTEM +--------- + +'sched':: + Scheduler and IPC mechanisms. + +SUITES FOR 'sched' +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +*messaging*:: +Suite for evaluating performance of scheduler and IPC mechanisms. +Based on hackbench by Rusty Russell. + +Options of *pipe* +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +-p:: +--pipe:: +Use pipe() instead of socketpair() + +-t:: +--thread:: +Be multi thread instead of multi process + +-g:: +--group=:: +Specify number of groups + +-l:: +--loop=:: +Specify number of loops + +Example of *messaging* +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +--------------------- +% perf bench sched messaging # run with default +options (20 sender and receiver processes per group) +(10 groups == 400 processes run) + + Total time:0.308 sec + +% perf bench sched messaging -t -g 20 # be multi-thread,with 20 groups +(20 sender and receiver threads per group) +(20 groups == 800 threads run) + + Total time:0.582 sec +--------------------- + +*pipe*:: +Suite for pipe() system call. +Based on pipe-test-1m.c by Ingo Molnar. + +Options of *pipe* +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +-l:: +--loop=:: +Specify number of loops. + +Example of *pipe* +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +--------------------- +% perf bench sched pipe +(executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks) + + Total time:8.091 sec + 8.091833 usecs/op + |