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    perf: Add 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite · 1c13f3c9
    Ingo Molnar authored
    Add a suite of NUMA performance benchmarks.
    
    The goal was simulate the behavior and access patterns of real NUMA
    workloads, via a wide range of parameters, so this tool goes well
    beyond simple bzero() measurements that most NUMA micro-benchmarks use:
    
     - It processes the data and creates a chain of data dependencies,
       like a real workload would. Neither the compiler, nor the
       kernel (via KSM and other optimizations) nor the CPU can
       eliminate parts of the workload.
    
     - It randomizes the initial state and also randomizes the target
       addresses of the processing - it's not a simple forward scan
       of addresses.
    
     - It provides flexible options to set process, thread and memory
       relationship information: -G sets "global" memory shared between
       all test processes, -P sets "process" memory shared by all
       threads of a process and -T sets "thread" private memory.
    
     - There's a NUMA convergence monitoring and convergence latency
       measurement option via -c and -m.
    
     - Micro-sleeps and synchronization can be injected to provoke lock
       contention and scheduling, via the -u and -S options. This simulates
       IO and contention.
    
     - The -x option instructs the workload to 'perturb' itself artificially
       every N seconds, by moving to the first and last CPU of the system
       periodically. This way the stability of convergence equilibrium and
       the number of steps taken for the scheduler to reach equilibrium again
       can be measured.
    
     - The amount of work can be specified via the -l loop count, and/or
       via a -s seconds-timeout value.
    
     - CPU and node memory binding options, to test hard binding scenarios.
       THP can be turned on and off via madvise() calls.
    
     - Live reporting of convergence progress in an 'at glance' output format.
       Printing of convergence and deconvergence events.
    
    The 'perf bench numa mem -a' option will start an array of about 30
    individual tests that will each output such measurements:
    
     # Running  5x5-bw-thread, "perf bench numa mem -p 5 -t 5 -P 512 -s 20 -zZ0q --thp  1"
      5x5-bw-thread,                         20.276, secs,           runtime-max/thread
      5x5-bw-thread,                         20.004, secs,           runtime-min/thread
      5x5-bw-thread,                         20.155, secs,           runtime-avg/thread
      5x5-bw-thread,                          0.671, %,              spread-runtime/thread
      5x5-bw-thread,                         21.153, GB,             data/thread
      5x5-bw-thread,                        528.818, GB,             data-total
      5x5-bw-thread,                          0.959, nsecs,          runtime/byte/thread
      5x5-bw-thread,                          1.043, GB/sec,         thread-speed
      5x5-bw-thread,                         26.081, GB/sec,         total-speed
    
    See the help text and the code for more details.
    
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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