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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 9/9] iov_iter: Add benchmarking kunit tests for UBUF/IOVEC
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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:24:50 +0100
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David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> wrote:

> You could also just not do the copy!
> Although you need (say) asm volatile("\n",:::"memory") to
> stop it all being completely optimised away.
> That might show up a difference in the 'out_of_line' test
> where 15% on top on the data copies is massive - it may be
> that the data cache behaviour is very different for the
> two cases.

I tried using the following as the load:

	volatile unsigned long foo;

	static __always_inline
	size_t idle_user_iter(void __user *iter_from, size_t progress,
			      size_t len, void *to, void *priv2)
	{
		nop();
		nop();
		foo += (unsigned long)iter_from;
		foo += (unsigned long)len;
		foo += (unsigned long)to + progress;
		nop();
		nop();
		return 0;
	}

	static __always_inline
	size_t idle_kernel_iter(void *iter_from, size_t progress,
				size_t len, void *to, void *priv2)
	{
		nop();
		nop();
		foo += (unsigned long)iter_from;
		foo += (unsigned long)len;
		foo += (unsigned long)to + progress;
		nop();
		nop();
		return 0;
	}

	size_t iov_iter_idle(struct iov_iter *iter, size_t len, void *priv)
	{
		return iterate_and_advance(iter, len, priv,
					   idle_user_iter, idle_kernel_iter);
	}
	EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_idle);

adding various things into a volatile variable to prevent the optimiser from
discarding the calculations.

I get:

 iov_kunit_benchmark_bvec: avg 395 uS, stddev 46 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_bvec: avg 397 uS, stddev 38 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_bvec: avg 411 uS, stddev 57 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_bvec_outofline: avg 781 uS, stddev 5 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_bvec_outofline: avg 781 uS, stddev 6 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_bvec_outofline: avg 781 uS, stddev 7 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_bvec_split: avg 3599 uS, stddev 737 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_bvec_split: avg 3664 uS, stddev 838 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_bvec_split: avg 3669 uS, stddev 875 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_iovec: avg 472 uS, stddev 17 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_iovec: avg 506 uS, stddev 59 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_iovec: avg 525 uS, stddev 14 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_kvec: avg 421 uS, stddev 73 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_kvec: avg 428 uS, stddev 68 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_kvec: avg 469 uS, stddev 75 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_ubuf: avg 1052 uS, stddev 6 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_ubuf: avg 1168 uS, stddev 8 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_ubuf: avg 1168 uS, stddev 9 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_xarray: avg 680 uS, stddev 11 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_xarray: avg 682 uS, stddev 20 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_xarray: avg 686 uS, stddev 46 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_xarray_outofline: avg 1340 uS, stddev 34 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_xarray_outofline: avg 1358 uS, stddev 12 uS
 iov_kunit_benchmark_xarray_outofline: avg 1358 uS, stddev 15 uS

where I made the iovec and kvec tests split their buffers into PAGE_SIZE
segments and the ubuf test issue an iteration per PAGE_SIZE'd chunk.
Splitting kvec into just 8 results in the iteration taking <1uS.

The bvec_split test is doing a kmalloc() per 256 pages inside of the loop,
which is why that takes quite a long time.

David