From: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
mjguzik@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
acme@kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
willy@infradead.org, raghavendra.kt@amd.com,
boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH v7 07/16] perf bench mem: Allow chunking on a memory region
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:24:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250917152418.4077386-8-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250917152418.4077386-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
There can be a significant gap in memset/memcpy performance depending
on the size of the region being operated on.
With chunk-size=4kb:
$ echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
$ perf bench mem memset -p 4kb -k 4kb -s 4gb -l 10 -f x86-64-stosq
# Running 'mem/memset' benchmark:
# function 'x86-64-stosq' (movsq-based memset() in arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S)
# Copying 4gb bytes ...
13.011655 GB/sec
With chunk-size=1gb:
$ echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
$ perf bench mem memset -p 4kb -k 1gb -s 4gb -l 10 -f x86-64-stosq
# Running 'mem/memset' benchmark:
# function 'x86-64-stosq' (movsq-based memset() in arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S)
# Copying 4gb bytes ...
21.936355 GB/sec
So, allow the user to specify the chunk-size.
The default value is identical to the total size of the region, which
preserves current behaviour.
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt | 10 ++++++++++
tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
index 04cdc31a0b0b..3d1455d880c3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
@@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive).
Specify page-size for mapping memory buffers (default: 4KB).
Available values are 4KB, 2MB, 1GB (case insensitive).
+-k::
+--chunk::
+Specify the chunk-size for each invocation. (default: 0, or full-extent)
+Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive).
+
-f::
--function::
Specify function to copy (default: default).
@@ -216,6 +221,11 @@ Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive).
Specify page-size for mapping memory buffers (default: 4KB).
Available values are 4KB, 2MB, 1GB (case insensitive).
+-k::
+--chunk::
+Specify the chunk-size for each invocation. (default: 0, or full-extent)
+Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive).
+
-f::
--function::
Specify function to set (default: default).
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c
index 6aa1f02553ba..69968ba63d81 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
static const char *size_str = "1MB";
static const char *function_str = "all";
static const char *page_size_str = "4KB";
+static const char *chunk_size_str = "0";
static unsigned int nr_loops = 1;
static bool use_cycles;
static int cycles_fd;
@@ -49,6 +50,10 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
"Specify page-size for mapping memory buffers. "
"Available sizes: 4KB, 2MB, 1GB (case insensitive)"),
+ OPT_STRING('k', "chunk", &chunk_size_str, "0",
+ "Specify the chunk-size for each invocation. "
+ "Available units: B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive)"),
+
OPT_STRING('f', "function", &function_str, "all",
"Specify the function to run, \"all\" runs all available functions, \"help\" lists them"),
@@ -69,6 +74,7 @@ union bench_clock {
struct bench_params {
size_t size;
size_t size_total;
+ size_t chunk_size;
unsigned int nr_loops;
unsigned int page_shift;
};
@@ -243,6 +249,14 @@ static int bench_mem_common(int argc, const char **argv, struct bench_mem_info *
}
p.size_total = p.size * p.nr_loops;
+ p.chunk_size = (size_t)perf_atoll((char *)chunk_size_str);
+ if ((s64)p.chunk_size < 0 || (s64)p.chunk_size > (s64)p.size) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Invalid chunk_size:%s\n", chunk_size_str);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ if (!p.chunk_size)
+ p.chunk_size = p.size;
+
page_size = (unsigned int)perf_atoll((char *)page_size_str);
if (page_size != (1 << PAGE_SHIFT_4KB) &&
page_size != (1 << PAGE_SHIFT_2MB) &&
@@ -300,7 +314,8 @@ static int do_memcpy(const struct function *r, struct bench_params *p,
clock_get(&start);
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < p->nr_loops; ++i)
- fn(dst, src, p->size);
+ for (size_t off = 0; off < p->size; off += p->chunk_size)
+ fn(dst + off, src + off, min(p->chunk_size, p->size - off));
clock_get(&end);
*rt = clock_diff(&start, &end);
@@ -402,7 +417,8 @@ static int do_memset(const struct function *r, struct bench_params *p,
clock_get(&start);
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < p->nr_loops; ++i)
- fn(dst, i, p->size);
+ for (size_t off = 0; off < p->size; off += p->chunk_size)
+ fn(dst + off, i, min(p->chunk_size, p->size - off));
clock_get(&end);
*rt = clock_diff(&start, &end);
--
2.43.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-17 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-17 15:24 [PATCH v7 00/16] mm: folio_zero_user: clear contiguous pages Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 01/16] perf bench mem: Remove repetition around time measurement Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 02/16] perf bench mem: Defer type munging of size to float Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 03/16] perf bench mem: Move mem op parameters into a structure Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 04/16] perf bench mem: Pull out init/fini logic Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 05/16] perf bench mem: Switch from zalloc() to mmap() Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 06/16] perf bench mem: Allow mapping of hugepages Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` Ankur Arora [this message]
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 08/16] perf bench mem: Refactor mem_options Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 09/16] perf bench mem: Add mmap() workloads Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 10/16] mm: define clear_pages(), clear_user_pages() Ankur Arora
2025-09-23 8:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-23 20:26 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-24 11:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-25 5:25 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-30 9:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-10 10:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-10 13:03 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 11/16] mm/highmem: introduce clear_user_highpages() Ankur Arora
2025-09-23 8:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-23 20:34 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-24 11:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-25 5:26 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-30 9:44 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 12/16] arm: mm: define clear_user_highpages() Ankur Arora
2025-09-23 8:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-23 22:25 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-24 11:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-25 6:08 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-30 9:51 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-07 6:43 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 13/16] mm: memory: support clearing page ranges Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2025-09-18 4:54 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-23 8:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-23 8:36 ` Raghavendra K T
2025-09-23 9:13 ` Raghavendra K T
2025-10-07 6:17 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-19 11:33 ` kernel test robot
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 14/16] x86/mm: Simplify clear_page_* Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 15/16] x86/clear_page: Introduce clear_pages() Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 15:24 ` [PATCH v7 16/16] x86/clear_pages: Support clearing of page-extents Ankur Arora
2025-09-17 16:29 ` [PATCH v7 00/16] mm: folio_zero_user: clear contiguous pages Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-09-18 4:00 ` Ankur Arora
2025-09-23 6:29 ` Raghavendra K T
2025-10-07 6:15 ` Ankur Arora
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