[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 24/33] app/testeventdev: add perf queue test

[Jerin Jacob]

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> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:47:50 +0000
> From: "Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
> To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>, "dev at dpdk.org"
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> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 24/33] app/testeventdev: add perf queue test
> 
> > From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 8:59 PM
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> > Cc: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; Van Haaren, Harry
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> > nipun.gupta at nxp.com; Vangati, Narender <narender.vangati at intel.com>; Rao, Nikhil
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> > <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 24/33] app/testeventdev: add perf queue test
> > 
> > This is a performance test case that aims at testing the following:
> > 1. Measure the number of events can be processed in a second.
> > 2. Measure the latency to forward an event.
> > 
> > The perf queue test configures the eventdev with Q queues and P ports,
> > where Q is nb_producers * nb_stages and P is nb_workers + nb_producers.
> > 
> > The user can choose the number of workers, the number of producers and
> > number of stages through the --wlcores , --plcores and the --stlist
> > application command line arguments respectively.
> > 
> > The producer(s) injects the events to eventdev based the
> > first stage sched type list requested by the user through --stlist
> > the command line argument.
> > 
> > Based on the number of stages to process(selected through --stlist),
> > the application forwards the event to next upstream queue and
> > terminates when it reaches the last stage in the pipeline.
> > On event termination, application increments the number events
> > processed and print periodically in one second to get the
> > number of events processed in one second.
> 
> We should forward events for longer than one second. From a SW PMD perspective, it takes some time for caches to warm up, so running a test for 1 second isn't very representative. Suggestion of running default 5 seconds, as a balance between consistent performance and keeping the test runs short?

Done. Change the default to 64M packets.

-opt->nb_pkts = (1ULL << 22);
+opt->nb_pkts = (1ULL << 26); /* do ~64M packets */

> 
> I'm aware of the --nb_pkts=X arg, this is more about solid defaults :)
> 
> 
> > When --fwd_latency command line option selected, the application
> > inserts the timestamp in the event on the first stage and then
> > on termination, it updates the number of cycles to forward
> > a packet. The application uses this value to compute the average
> > latency to a forward packet.
> > 
> > Example command to run perf queue test:
> > sudo build/app/dpdk-test-eventdev --vdev=event_sw0 -- --test=perf_queue\
> > --slcore=1 --plcores=2 --wlcore=3 --stlist=p --nb_pkts=1000000000
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
> 
> With the above open;
> 
> Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>