[PATCH v1 2/6] app/test: add allocator performance benchmark

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 09:12:35PM +0000, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > [...]
> > > What is the expected running time of this test? When I tried it out
> > on my
> > > machine it appears to hang after the following output:
> > > [...]
> 
> It always runs within 50 seconds on my machine (E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50GHz).
> Judging by the output, it runs faster than yours
> (203 vs 811 total microseconds in 1M allocation case):
> 
> USER1: Reference: memset
> USER1: Result: 14.557848.3 GiB/s <=> 67.08 us/MiB
> USER1: 
> USER1: Performance: rte_malloc
> USER1:     Size (B)    Runs  Alloc (us)   Free (us)  Total (us)      memset (us)
> USER1:           64   10000        0.09        0.04        0.13             0.01
> USER1:          128   10000        0.09        0.04        0.13             0.01
> USER1:         1024   10000        0.12        0.09        0.21             0.11
> USER1:         4096   10000        0.15        0.40        0.55             0.27
> USER1:        65536   10000        0.16        4.37        4.53             4.25
> USER1:      1048576   10000       73.85      129.23      203.07            67.26
> USER1:      2097152    7154      148.98      259.42      408.39           134.34
> USER1:      4194304    3570      298.28      519.76      818.04           268.65
> USER1:     16777216     882     1206.85     2093.46     3300.30          1074.25
> USER1:   1073741824       6   188765.01   206544.04   395309.06         68739.83
> [...]
> 
> Note that to see --huge-unlink effect you must run it twice:
> the first run creates and leaves the files, the second reuses them.

My run seems to hang when doing the 2M size tests, which I also notice is
the first run above where the number of runs is not 10000. What is the
termination condition for each of the runs, and is that something that
could cause hangs on slower machines?

/Bruce