refperf: Add a test to measure performance of read-side synchronization
Add a test for comparing the performance of RCU with various read-side
synchronization mechanisms. The test has proved useful for collecting
data and performing these comparisons.
Currently RCU, SRCU, reader-writer lock, reader-writer semaphore and
reference counting can be measured using refperf.perf_type parameter.
Each invocation of the test runs measures performance of a specific
mechanism.
The maximum number of CPUs to concurrently run readers on is chosen by
the test itself and is 75% of the total number of CPUs. So if you had 24
CPUs, the test runs with a maximum of 18 parallel readers.
A number of experiments are conducted, and in each experiment, the
number of readers is increased by 1, upto the 75% of CPUs mark. During
each experiment, all readers execute an empty loop with refperf.loops
iterations and time the total loop duration. This is then averaged.
Example output:
Parameters "refperf.perf_type=srcu refperf.loops=2000000" looks like:
[ 3.347133] srcu-ref-perf:
[ 3.347133] Threads Time(ns)
[ 3.347133] 1 36
[ 3.347133] 2 34
[ 3.347133] 3 34
[ 3.347133] 4 34
[ 3.347133] 5 33
[ 3.347133] 6 33
[ 3.347133] 7 33
[ 3.347133] 8 33
[ 3.347133] 9 33
[ 3.347133] 10 33
[ 3.347133] 11 33
[ 3.347133] 12 33
[ 3.347133] 13 33
[ 3.347133] 14 33
[ 3.347133] 15 32
[ 3.347133] 16 33
[ 3.347133] 17 33
[ 3.347133] 18 34
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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