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| author | Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> | 2012-06-20 10:08:06 +0400 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2012-06-27 20:17:48 +0400 |
| commit | 08942f6d5d992e9486b07653fd87ea8182a22fa0 (patch) | |
| tree | c2e7389b108f1951841b0024a02b7fc90950f07b /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt | |
| parent | 209bd9e3e14712d74c8bebb028afda905d689f1c (diff) | |
| download | linux-08942f6d5d992e9486b07653fd87ea8182a22fa0.tar.xz | |
perf bench: Documentation update
The current perf-bench documentation has a couple of typos and even
lacks entire description of mem subsystem. Fix it.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340172486-17805-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt | 78 |
1 files changed, 75 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt index a3dbadb26ef5..f3c716a4cad3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This 'perf bench' command is general framework for benchmark suites. +This 'perf bench' command is a general framework for benchmark suites. COMMON OPTIONS -------------- @@ -45,14 +45,20 @@ SUBSYSTEM 'sched':: Scheduler and IPC mechanisms. +'mem':: + Memory access performance. + +'all':: + All benchmark subsystems. + SUITES FOR 'sched' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *messaging*:: Suite for evaluating performance of scheduler and IPC mechanisms. Based on hackbench by Rusty Russell. -Options of *pipe* -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +Options of *messaging* +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -p:: --pipe:: Use pipe() instead of socketpair() @@ -115,6 +121,72 @@ Example of *pipe* 59004 ops/sec --------------------- +SUITES FOR 'mem' +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +*memcpy*:: +Suite for evaluating performance of simple memory copy in various ways. + +Options of *memcpy* +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +-l:: +--length:: +Specify length of memory to copy (default: 1MB). +Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive). + +-r:: +--routine:: +Specify routine to copy (default: default). +Available routines are depend on the architecture. +On x86-64, x86-64-unrolled, x86-64-movsq and x86-64-movsb are supported. + +-i:: +--iterations:: +Repeat memcpy invocation this number of times. + +-c:: +--clock:: +Use perf's cpu-cycles event instead of gettimeofday syscall. + +-o:: +--only-prefault:: +Show only the result with page faults before memcpy. + +-n:: +--no-prefault:: +Show only the result without page faults before memcpy. + +*memset*:: +Suite for evaluating performance of simple memory set in various ways. + +Options of *memset* +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +-l:: +--length:: +Specify length of memory to set (default: 1MB). +Available units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB (case insensitive). + +-r:: +--routine:: +Specify routine to set (default: default). +Available routines are depend on the architecture. +On x86-64, x86-64-unrolled, x86-64-stosq and x86-64-stosb are supported. + +-i:: +--iterations:: +Repeat memset invocation this number of times. + +-c:: +--clock:: +Use perf's cpu-cycles event instead of gettimeofday syscall. + +-o:: +--only-prefault:: +Show only the result with page faults before memset. + +-n:: +--no-prefault:: +Show only the result without page faults before memset. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf[1] |