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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>2012-06-20 15:08:06 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-06-27 13:17:48 -0300
commit08942f6d5d992e9486b07653fd87ea8182a22fa0 (patch)
treec2e7389b108f1951841b0024a02b7fc90950f07b /tools
parent209bd9e3e14712d74c8bebb028afda905d689f1c (diff)
downloadlinux-08942f6d5d992e9486b07653fd87ea8182a22fa0.tar.bz2
perf bench: Documentation update
The current perf-bench documentation has a couple of typos and even lacks entire description of mem subsystem. Fix it. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340172486-17805-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt78
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c8
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-bench.c4
4 files changed, 83 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
index a3dbadb26ef5..f3c716a4cad3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-This 'perf bench' command is general framework for benchmark suites.
+This 'perf bench' command is a general framework for benchmark suites.
COMMON OPTIONS
--------------
@@ -45,14 +45,20 @@ SUBSYSTEM
'sched'::
Scheduler and IPC mechanisms.
+'mem'::
+ Memory access performance.
+
+'all'::
+ All benchmark subsystems.
+
SUITES FOR 'sched'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*messaging*::
Suite for evaluating performance of scheduler and IPC mechanisms.
Based on hackbench by Rusty Russell.
-Options of *pipe*
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Options of *messaging*
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-p::
--pipe::
Use pipe() instead of socketpair()
@@ -115,6 +121,72 @@ Example of *pipe*
59004 ops/sec
---------------------
+SUITES FOR 'mem'
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+*memcpy*::
+Suite for evaluating performance of simple memory copy in various ways.
+
+Options of *memcpy*
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+-l::
+--length::
+Specify length of memory to copy (default: 1MB).
+Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive).
+
+-r::
+--routine::
+Specify routine to copy (default: default).
+Available routines are depend on the architecture.
+On x86-64, x86-64-unrolled, x86-64-movsq and x86-64-movsb are supported.
+
+-i::
+--iterations::
+Repeat memcpy invocation this number of times.
+
+-c::
+--clock::
+Use perf's cpu-cycles event instead of gettimeofday syscall.
+
+-o::
+--only-prefault::
+Show only the result with page faults before memcpy.
+
+-n::
+--no-prefault::
+Show only the result without page faults before memcpy.
+
+*memset*::
+Suite for evaluating performance of simple memory set in various ways.
+
+Options of *memset*
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+-l::
+--length::
+Specify length of memory to set (default: 1MB).
+Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive).
+
+-r::
+--routine::
+Specify routine to set (default: default).
+Available routines are depend on the architecture.
+On x86-64, x86-64-unrolled, x86-64-stosq and x86-64-stosb are supported.
+
+-i::
+--iterations::
+Repeat memset invocation this number of times.
+
+-c::
+--clock::
+Use perf's cpu-cycles event instead of gettimeofday syscall.
+
+-o::
+--only-prefault::
+Show only the result with page faults before memset.
+
+-n::
+--no-prefault::
+Show only the result without page faults before memset.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
index 71557225bf92..d990365cafa0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ static bool no_prefault;
static const struct option options[] = {
OPT_STRING('l', "length", &length_str, "1MB",
"Specify length of memory to copy. "
- "available unit: B, MB, GB (upper and lower)"),
+ "Available units: B, KB, MB, GB and TB (upper and lower)"),
OPT_STRING('r', "routine", &routine, "default",
"Specify routine to copy"),
OPT_INTEGER('i', "iterations", &iterations,
"repeat memcpy() invocation this number of times"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "clock", &use_clock,
- "Use CPU clock for measuring"),
+ "Use cycles event instead of gettimeofday() for measuring"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('o', "only-prefault", &only_prefault,
"Show only the result with page faults before memcpy()"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-prefault", &no_prefault,
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
index e9079185bd72..bf0d5f552017 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
@@ -31,14 +31,14 @@ static bool no_prefault;
static const struct option options[] = {
OPT_STRING('l', "length", &length_str, "1MB",
- "Specify length of memory to copy. "
- "available unit: B, MB, GB (upper and lower)"),
+ "Specify length of memory to set. "
+ "Available units: B, KB, MB, GB and TB (upper and lower)"),
OPT_STRING('r', "routine", &routine, "default",
- "Specify routine to copy"),
+ "Specify routine to set"),
OPT_INTEGER('i', "iterations", &iterations,
"repeat memset() invocation this number of times"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "clock", &use_clock,
- "Use CPU clock for measuring"),
+ "Use cycles event instead of gettimeofday() for measuring"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('o', "only-prefault", &only_prefault,
"Show only the result with page faults before memset()"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-prefault", &no_prefault,
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
index b0e74ab2d7a2..1f3100216448 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct bench_suite {
};
\
/* sentinel: easy for help */
-#define suite_all { "all", "test all suite (pseudo suite)", NULL }
+#define suite_all { "all", "Test all benchmark suites", NULL }
static struct bench_suite sched_suites[] = {
{ "messaging",
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static struct bench_subsys subsystems[] = {
"memory access performance",
mem_suites },
{ "all", /* sentinel: easy for help */
- "test all subsystem (pseudo subsystem)",
+ "all benchmark subsystem",
NULL },
{ NULL,
NULL,