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Hou Tao 9c42652f8b 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
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