Re: [chatroom benchmark version 1.0.1] Results

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 09:05:39 EST


On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:29:30 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:

> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Just thought I'd bounce this one over to Andrew as a warm-n-fuzzy.
>
> Is a scheduler test, isn't it?

Mixed. Before the O(1) scheduler, I distilled this test into "hackbench"
(which I now call schedbench). Do well on this, and you'll do well on the
lots-of-threads-wakingup case: [BTW, 2.5 rocks at this 8)]. Ideally
"hackbench n" should scale with n:

/* Test groups of 20 processes spraying to 20 receivers */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/select.h>

#define DATASIZE 100
static unsigned int loops = 100;
static int use_pipes = 0;

static void barf(const char *msg)
{
        fprintf(stderr, "%s (error: %s)\n", msg, strerror(errno));
        exit(1);
}

static void fdpair(int fds[2])
{
        if (use_pipes) {
                if (pipe(fds) == 0)
                        return;
        } else {
                if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds) == 0)
                        return;
        }
        barf("Creating fdpair");
}

/* Block until we're ready to go */
static void ready(int ready_out, int wakefd)
{
        char dummy;
        fd_set fds;

        FD_ZERO(&fds);
        FD_SET(wakefd, &fds);

        /* Tell them we're ready. */
        if (write(ready_out, &dummy, 1) != 1)
                barf("CLIENT: ready write");

        /* Wait for "GO" signal */
        if (select(wakefd+1, &fds, NULL, NULL, NULL) != 1)
                barf("select");
}

/* Sender sprays loops messages down each file descriptor */
static void sender(unsigned int num_fds,
                   int out_fd[num_fds],
                   int ready_out,
                   int wakefd)
{
        char data[DATASIZE];
        unsigned int i, j;

        ready(ready_out, wakefd);

        /* Now pump to every receiver. */
        for (i = 0; i < loops; i++) {
                for (j = 0; j < num_fds; j++) {
                        int ret, done = 0;

                again:
                        ret = write(out_fd[j], data + done, sizeof(data)-done);
                        if (ret < 0)
                                barf("SENDER: write");
                        done += ret;
                        if (done < sizeof(data))
                                goto again;
                }
        }
}

/* One receiver per fd */
static void receiver(unsigned int num_packets,
                     int in_fd,
                     int ready_out,
                     int wakefd)
{
        unsigned int i;

        /* Wait for start... */
        ready(ready_out, wakefd);

        /* Receive them all */
        for (i = 0; i < num_packets; i++) {
                char data[DATASIZE];
                int ret, done = 0;

        again:
                ret = read(in_fd, data + done, DATASIZE - done);
                if (ret < 0)
                        barf("SERVER: read");
                done += ret;
                if (done < DATASIZE)
                        goto again;
        }
}

/* One group of senders and receivers */
static unsigned int group(unsigned int num_fds,
                          int ready_out,
                          int wakefd)
{
        unsigned int i;
        unsigned int out_fds[num_fds];

        for (i = 0; i < num_fds; i++) {
                int fds[2];

                /* Create the pipe between client and server */
                fdpair(fds);

                /* Fork the receiver. */
                switch (fork()) {
                case -1: barf("fork()");
                case 0:
                        close(fds[1]);
                        receiver(num_fds*loops, fds[0], ready_out, wakefd);
                        exit(0);
                }

                out_fds[i] = fds[1];
                close(fds[0]);
        }

        /* Now we have all the fds, fork the senders */
        for (i = 0; i < num_fds; i++) {
                switch (fork()) {
                case -1: barf("fork()");
                case 0:
                        sender(num_fds, out_fds, ready_out, wakefd);
                        exit(0);
                }
        }

        /* Close the fds we have left */
        for (i = 0; i < num_fds; i++)
                close(out_fds[i]);

        /* Return number of children to reap */
        return num_fds * 2;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        unsigned int i, num_groups, total_children;
        struct timeval start, stop, diff;
        unsigned int num_fds = 20;
        int readyfds[2], wakefds[2];
        char dummy;

        if (argv[1] && strcmp(argv[1], "-pipe") == 0) {
                use_pipes = 1;
                argc--;
                argv++;
        }

        if (argc != 2 || (num_groups = atoi(argv[1])) == 0)
                barf("Usage: hackbench [-pipe] <num groups>\n");

        fdpair(readyfds);
        fdpair(wakefds);

        total_children = 0;
        for (i = 0; i < num_groups; i++)
                total_children += group(num_fds, readyfds[1], wakefds[0]);

        /* Wait for everyone to be ready */
        for (i = 0; i < total_children; i++)
                if (read(readyfds[0], &dummy, 1) != 1)
                        barf("Reading for readyfds");

        gettimeofday(&start, NULL);

        /* Kick them off */
        if (write(wakefds[1], &dummy, 1) != 1)
                barf("Writing to start them");

        /* Reap them all */
        for (i = 0; i < total_children; i++) {
                int status;
                wait(&status);
                if (!WIFEXITED(status))
                        exit(1);
        }

        gettimeofday(&stop, NULL);

        /* Print time... */
        timersub(&stop, &start, &diff);
        printf("Time: %lu.%03lu\n", diff.tv_sec, diff.tv_usec/1000);
        exit(0);
}

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   there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too
   many doers quoting their contemporaries.  -- Larry McVoy
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