mbw(1) General Commands Manual mbw(1)NAME
mbw - Memory BandWidth benchmark
SYNOPSIS
mbw [options] arraysize_in_MiB
DESCRIPTION
mbw determines available memory bandwidth by copying large arrays of data in memory.
OPTIONS -q Quiet; suppress informational messages.
-a Suppress printing the average of each test.
-n <number>
Select number of loops per test
-t <number>
Select tests to be run. If no -t parameters are given the default is to run all tests. -t0: memcpy() test, -t1: dumb (b[i]=a[i]
style) test, -t2: memcpy() with arbitrary block size
-b <bytes>
Block size in bytes for -t2.
-h Show quick help.
USAGE
mbw will allocate two arraysize arrays in memory and copy one to the other. Reported 'bandwidth' is the amount of data copied over the
time this operation took.
Obviously mbw needs twice arraysize MiBytes (1024*1024 bytes) of physical memory - you'd better switch off swap or otherwise make sure no
paging occurs. Needless to say that it should not be run on a busy system.
TODO
Multiple thread support. Better configurability, including using getopt() for parsing arguments.
AUTHOR
andras.horvath@gmail.com
memory bandwidth benchmark Apr 26, 2006 mbw(1)
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perf-bench - General framework for benchmark suites
SYNOPSIS
perf bench [<common options>] <subsystem> <suite> [<options>]
DESCRIPTION
This perf bench command is a 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.
.ft C
% perf bench sched pipe # with no style specified
(executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks)
Total time:5.855 sec
5.855061 usecs/op
170792 ops/sec
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simple
This simple style is friendly for automated processing by scripts.
.ft C
% perf bench --format=simple sched pipe # specified simple
5.988
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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 messaging
-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
.ft C
% 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
.ft
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
.ft C
% perf bench sched pipe
(executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks)
Total time:8.091 sec
8.091833 usecs/op
123581 ops/sec
% perf bench sched pipe -l 1000 # loop 1000
(executing 1000 pipe operations between two tasks)
Total time:0.016 sec
16.948000 usecs/op
59004 ops/sec
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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, --cycle
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, --cycle
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 perf(1)perf 06/30/2014 PERF-BENCH(1)