Add missing generic hp_timing support. It uses clock_gettime (CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
which has unspecified starting time, nano-second accuracy, and should faster on
architectures that implementes the symbol as vDSO.
Checked on aarch64-linux-gnu, x86_64-linux-gnu, and i686-linux-gnu. I also
checked the builds for all afected ABIs.
* benchtests/Makefile (USE_CLOCK_GETTIME) Remove.
* benchtests/README: Update description.
* benchtests/bench-timing.h: Default to hp-timing.
* sysdeps/generic/hp-timing.h (HP_TIMING_DIFF, HP_TIMING_ACCUM_NT,
HP_TIMING_PRINT): Remove.
(HP_TIMING_NOW): Add generic implementation.
(hp_timing_t): Change to uint64_t.
This patch refactor how hp-timing is used on loader code for statistics
report. The HP_TIMING_AVAIL and HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL are removed and
HP_TIMING_INLINE is used instead to check for hp-timing avaliability.
For alpha, which only defines HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL, the HP_TIMING_INLINE
is set iff for IS_IN(rtld).
Checked on aarch64-linux-gnu, x86_64-linux-gnu, and i686-linux-gnu. I also
checked the builds for all afected ABIs.
* benchtests/bench-timing.h: Replace HP_TIMING_AVAIL with
HP_TIMING_INLINE.
* nptl/descr.h: Likewise.
* elf/rtld.c (RLTD_TIMING_DECLARE, RTLD_TIMING_NOW, RTLD_TIMING_DIFF,
RTLD_TIMING_ACCUM_NT, RTLD_TIMING_SET): Define.
(dl_start_final_info, _dl_start_final, dl_main, print_statistics):
Abstract hp-timing usage with RTLD_* macros.
* sysdeps/alpha/hp-timing.h (HP_TIMING_INLINE): Define iff IS_IN(rtld).
(HP_TIMING_AVAIL, HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL): Remove.
* sysdeps/generic/hp-timing.h (HP_TIMING_AVAIL, HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL,
HP_TIMING_NONAVAIL): Likewise.
* sysdeps/ia64/hp-timing.h (HP_TIMING_AVAIL, HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/hp-timing.h (HP_TIMING_AVAIL,
HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL): Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/hp-timing.h (HP_TIMING_AVAIL,
HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL): Likewise.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/sparcv9/hp-timing.h (HP_TIMING_AVAIL,
HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL): Likewise.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/hp-timing.h (HP_TIMING_AVAIL,
HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL): Likewise.
* sysdeps/x86/hp-timing.h (HP_TIMING_AVAIL, HP_SMALL_TIMING_AVAIL):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/hp-timing-common.h: Update comment with
HP_TIMING_AVAIL removal.
Add an undefine of attribute_hidden since it may be defined in some cases
(it must be defined since it is used by some hp-timing configurations).
* benchtests/bench-timing.h (attribute_hidden): Undefine.
Currently the benchtests are run with internal GLIBC headers, which is incorrect.
Defining _ISOMAC in the makefile ensures the internal headers are bypassed.
Fix all tests which were relying on internal defines or includes.
* benchtests/Makefile: Define _ISOMAC.
* benchtests/bench-strcoll.c: Add missing sys/stat.h include.
* benchtests/bench-string.h: Define inhibit_loop_to_libcall macro.
* benchtests/bench-strstr.c: Define empty libc_hidden_builtin_def.
* benchtests/bench-strtok.c (oldstrtok): Use rawmemchr.
* benchtests/bench-timing.h: Define attribute_hidden.
This patch changes the output format of the main benchmark output file
(bench.out) to an extensible format. I chose JSON over XML because in
addition to being extensible, it is also not too verbose.
Additionally it has good support in python.
The significant change I have made in terms of functionality is to put
timing information as an attribute in JSON instead of a string and to
do that, there is a separate program that prints out a JSON snippet
mentioning the type of timing (hp_timing or clock_gettime). The mean
timing has now changed from iterations per unit to actual timing per
iteration.
The TIMING_INIT macro currently sets the number of loop iterations
to 1000, which limits usefulness. Make the argument a clock
resolution value and multiply by 1000 in bench-skeleton.c instead
to allow easier reuse.
ChangeLog:
2013-09-11 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* benchtests/bench-timing.h (TIMING_INIT): Rename ITERS
parameter to RES. Remove hardcoded 1000 value.
* benchtests/bench-skeleton.c (main): Pass RES parameter
to TIMING_INIT and multiply result by 1000.
Switch the string benchmarks to using bench-timing.h instead
of hp-timing.h directly. This allows the string benchmarks to
be run usefully on architectures such as ARM that do not have
support for hp-timing.h.
In order to do this the tests have been changed from timing each
individual call and picking the lowest execution time recorded to
timing a number of calls and taking the mean execution time.
ChangeLog:
2013-09-04 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* benchtests/bench-timing.h (TIMING_PRINT_MEAN): New macro.
* benchtests/bench-string.h: Include bench-timing.h instead
of including hp-timing.h directly. (INNER_LOOP_ITERS): New
define. (HP_TIMING_BEST): Delete macro. (test_init): Remove
call to HP_TIMING_DIFF_INIT.
* benchtests/bench-memccpy.c: Use bench-timing.h macros
instead of hp-timing.h macros.
* benchtests/bench-memchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memcmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memcpy.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memmem.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memmove.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memset.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-rawmemchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcasecmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcasestr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcat.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcpy.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcpy_chk.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strlen.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncasecmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncat.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncpy.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strnlen.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strpbrk.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strrchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strspn.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strstr.c: Likewise.
HP_TIMING uses native timestamping instructions if available, thus
greatly reducing the overhead of recording start and end times for
function calls. For architectures that don't have HP_TIMING
available, we fall back to the clock_gettime bits. One may also
override this by invoking the benchmark as follows:
make USE_CLOCK_GETTIME=1 bench
and get the benchmark results using clock_gettime. One has to do
`make bench-clean` to ensure that the benchmark programs are rebuilt.
