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authorHou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>2021-12-10 22:16:51 +0800
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2021-12-11 17:40:23 -0800
commit9c42652f8be3202ad11cf4fbc358688003cff21c (patch)
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parent9a93bf3fda3d03762868b1424e898395ffc71575 (diff)
downloadlinux-9c42652f8be3202ad11cf4fbc358688003cff21c.tar.bz2
selftests/bpf: Add benchmark for bpf_strncmp() helper
Add benchmark to compare the performance between home-made strncmp() in bpf program and bpf_strncmp() helper. In summary, the performance win of bpf_strncmp() under x86-64 is greater than 18% when the compared string length is greater than 64, and is 179% when the length is 4095. Under arm64 the performance win is even bigger: 33% when the length is greater than 64 and 600% when the length is 4095. The following is the details: no-helper-X: use home-made strncmp() to compare X-sized string helper-Y: use bpf_strncmp() to compare Y-sized string Under x86-64: no-helper-1 3.504 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-1 3.347 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-8 3.357 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-8 3.307 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-32 3.064 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-32 3.253 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-64 2.563 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-64 3.040 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-128 1.975 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-128 2.641 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-512 0.759 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-512 1.574 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-2048 0.329 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-2048 0.602 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-4095 0.117 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-4095 0.327 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) Under arm64: no-helper-1 2.806 ± 0.004M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-1 2.819 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-8 2.797 ± 0.109M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-8 2.786 ± 0.025M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-32 2.399 ± 0.011M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-32 2.703 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-64 2.020 ± 0.015M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-64 2.702 ± 0.073M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-128 1.604 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-128 2.516 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-512 0.699 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-512 2.106 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-2048 0.215 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-2048 1.223 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) no-helper-4095 0.112 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) helper-4095 0.796 ± 0.000M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211210141652.877186-4-houtao1@huawei.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c
index ffe5752f3324..bbb42e2cee0c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c
@@ -205,11 +205,13 @@ static const struct argp_option opts[] = {
extern struct argp bench_ringbufs_argp;
extern struct argp bench_bloom_map_argp;
extern struct argp bench_bpf_loop_argp;
+extern struct argp bench_strncmp_argp;
static const struct argp_child bench_parsers[] = {
{ &bench_ringbufs_argp, 0, "Ring buffers benchmark", 0 },
{ &bench_bloom_map_argp, 0, "Bloom filter map benchmark", 0 },
{ &bench_bpf_loop_argp, 0, "bpf_loop helper benchmark", 0 },
+ { &bench_strncmp_argp, 0, "bpf_strncmp helper benchmark", 0 },
{},
};
@@ -409,6 +411,8 @@ extern const struct bench bench_bloom_false_positive;
extern const struct bench bench_hashmap_without_bloom;
extern const struct bench bench_hashmap_with_bloom;
extern const struct bench bench_bpf_loop;
+extern const struct bench bench_strncmp_no_helper;
+extern const struct bench bench_strncmp_helper;
static const struct bench *benchs[] = {
&bench_count_global,
@@ -441,6 +445,8 @@ static const struct bench *benchs[] = {
&bench_hashmap_without_bloom,
&bench_hashmap_with_bloom,
&bench_bpf_loop,
+ &bench_strncmp_no_helper,
+ &bench_strncmp_helper,
};
static void setup_benchmark()