- -S/--probe - Specify a probe to sample.
- -x/--probe-step - Sample probes every n steps.
- --probe-runfreq - Sample probes at this frequency in hz.
- -X/--probe-simfreq - Sample probes at this frequency in simulated hz.
Also:
- --trace-simfreq - Sample trace output at this frequency in
simulated hz.
These give finer grain control over which probes we measure during
benching, and how we measure them.
These also introduce several exciting bench features:
- -S/--probe provides the ability to easily filter which probes you're
interested in at runtime.
This should replace the growing use of MASK defines in the benches.
- -x/--probe-step makes it easy to relax sampling rate when the amount
of data overwhelms later scripts.
This should replace the growing use of STEP defines in the benches.
- The additional concept of simfreq, which allows perf-esque sampling in
simtime. This provides another option for intuitively relaxing probe
sampling rate without sacrificing reproducibility.
(runfreq depends on wall time, so good bye reproducibility, though may
still be useful in interactive contexts.)
Note -S/--probe and -x/--probe-step replace MASK/STEP defines, which
have already proved their usefulness, but required reimplementation in
every bench case. An obvious contender to move into the bench_runner!
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Note note that -S/--probe also supports some simple sample expressions,
allowing flexible step/simfreq/runfreq at the per-probe level:
- -Swrite=100 - Sample probe "write" every 100 steps
- -Swrite=100rhz - Sample probe "write" 100 times a runtime second
- -Swrite=100shz - Sample probe "write" 100 times a simulated second
Though I wonder how long it will take before I forget this feature
exists.
- BENCH_SIMTIME() => lfs3_kiwibd_simtime()
- BENCH_SIMRESET() => lfs3_kiwibd_simreset()
- BENCH_SIMPAUSE() => lfs3_kiwibd_simpause()
- BENCH_SIMRESUME() => lfs3_kiwibd_simresume()
- BENCH_RESET() => lfs3_kiwibd_simreset() + BENCH_STACK/HEAP_RESET()
- BENCH_PAUSE() => lfs3_kiwibd_simpause() + BENCH_STACK/HEAP_PAUSE()
- BENCH_RESUME() => lfs3_kiwibd_simresume() + BENCH_STACK/HEAP_RESUME()
This does two things:
1. Adds pause/resume counters to bd counters to make it easier to
exclude operations from the current bench (potentially useful for
seq+disk usage).
2. Exposes bd simtime operations as BENCH_* macros, to make it a bit
easier to interact with simtime without tying all the benches to
kiwibd. (Not that we'll ever probably not use kiwibd, but still).
Also adopted 32-bit counters for stack/heap pause state instead of a
32-bit stack. Not that either are at a risk of overflowing, but better
safe than sorry.
Based on some experience out-of-tree:
- bench_rbyd - Simple rbyd attr/id litmus benchmark
- bench_btree (new) - Simple btree id/name litmus benchmark
- bench_file (new) - Simple file read/write litmus benchmark
- bench_dir (new) - Simple dir read/write/stat litmus benchmark
- bench_wt - Heavy-duty write-throughput benchmark
- bench_rt (new) - Heavy-duty read-throughput benchmark
Benches take a long time to run for useful results, so we probably don't
want to go crazy with them like with the tests.
Honestly, we may want to chop this down to just the
write/read-throughput benches.
Christopher Haster