From: Yuzhuo Jing <yuzhuo@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Liang Kan <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
Yuzhuo Jing <yzj@umich.edu>, Yuzhuo Jing <yuzhuo@google.com>,
Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>,
Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>,
Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 7/7] perf bench sync: Add latency histogram functionality
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:26:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250729022640.3134066-8-yuzhuo@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250729022640.3134066-1-yuzhuo@google.com>
Add an option to print the histogram of lock acquire latencies (unit in
TSCs).
Signed-off-by: Yuzhuo Jing <yuzhuo@google.com>
---
tools/perf/bench/sync.c | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 96 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/sync.c b/tools/perf/bench/sync.c
index 2685cb66584c..c85e9853c72a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/sync.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/sync.c
@@ -15,14 +15,19 @@
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
#include "bench.h"
+#include "../util/tsc.h"
#include "include/qspinlock.h"
#define NS 1000000000ull
#define CACHELINE_SIZE 64
+#define DEFAULT_HIST_INTERVAL 1000
+
static unsigned int nthreads;
static unsigned long nspins = 10000ul;
+static bool do_hist;
+static u64 hist_interval = DEFAULT_HIST_INTERVAL;
struct barrier_t;
@@ -45,6 +50,7 @@ struct worker {
struct lock_ops *ops;
struct barrier_t *barrier;
u64 runtime; // in nanoseconds
+ u64 *lock_latency; // in TSCs
};
static const struct option options[] = {
@@ -52,6 +58,10 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
"Specify number of threads (default: number of CPUs)."),
OPT_ULONG('n', "spins", &nspins,
"Number of lock acquire operations per thread (default: 10,000 times)."),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "hist", &do_hist,
+ "Print a histogram of lock acquire TSCs."),
+ OPT_U64(0, "hist-interval", &hist_interval,
+ "Histogram bucket size (default 1,000 TSCs)."),
OPT_END()
};
@@ -109,6 +119,25 @@ static void lock_loop(const struct lock_ops *ops, unsigned long n)
}
}
+/*
+ * A busy loop to acquire and release the given lock N times, and also collect
+ * all acquire latencies, for histogram use. Note that the TSC operations
+ * latency itself is also included.
+ */
+static void lock_loop_timing(const struct lock_ops *ops, unsigned long n, u64 *sample_buffer)
+{
+ unsigned long i;
+ u64 t1, t2;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
+ t1 = rdtsc();
+ ops->lock(ops->data);
+ t2 = rdtsc();
+ ops->unlock(ops->data);
+ sample_buffer[i] = t2 - t1;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Thread worker function. Runs lock loop for N/5 times before and after
* the main timed loop.
@@ -127,7 +156,10 @@ static void *sync_workerfn(void *args)
lock_loop(worker->ops, nspins / 5);
clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, &starttime);
- lock_loop(worker->ops, nspins);
+ if (worker->lock_latency)
+ lock_loop_timing(worker->ops, nspins, worker->lock_latency);
+ else
+ lock_loop(worker->ops, nspins);
clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, &endtime);
/* Tail loop (not counted) to keep the above loop contended. */
@@ -139,6 +171,57 @@ static void *sync_workerfn(void *args)
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Calculate and print a histogram.
+ */
+static void print_histogram(struct worker *workers)
+{
+ u64 tsc_max = 0;
+ u64 *buckets;
+ unsigned long nbuckets;
+
+ if (hist_interval == 0)
+ hist_interval = DEFAULT_HIST_INTERVAL;
+
+ printf("Lock acquire histogram:\n");
+
+ /* Calculate the max TSC value to get the number of buckets needed. */
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < nthreads; ++i) {
+ struct worker *w = workers + i;
+
+ for (unsigned long j = 0; j < nspins; ++j)
+ tsc_max = max(w->lock_latency[j], tsc_max);
+ }
+ nbuckets = (tsc_max + hist_interval - 1) / hist_interval;
+
+ /* Allocate the actual bucket. The bucket definition may be optimized
+ * if it is sparse.
+ */
+ buckets = calloc(nbuckets, sizeof(*buckets));
+ if (!buckets)
+ err(EXIT_FAILURE, "calloc");
+
+ /* Iterate through all latencies again to fill the buckets. */
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < nthreads; ++i) {
+ struct worker *w = workers + i;
+
+ for (unsigned long j = 0; j < nspins; ++j) {
+ u64 latency = w->lock_latency[j];
+ ++buckets[latency / hist_interval];
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* Print the histogram as a table. */
+ printf("Bucket, Count\n");
+ for (unsigned long i = 0; i < nbuckets; ++i) {
+ if (buckets[i] == 0)
+ continue;
+ printf("%"PRIu64", %"PRIu64"\n", hist_interval * (i + 1), buckets[i]);
+ }
+
+ free(buckets);
+}
+
/*
* Generic lock synchronization benchmark function. Sets up threads and
* thread affinities.
@@ -191,6 +274,12 @@ static int bench_sync_lock_generic(struct lock_ops *ops, int argc, const char **
workers[i].barrier = &barrier;
workers[i].ops = ops;
+ if (do_hist) {
+ workers[i].lock_latency = calloc(nspins, sizeof(*workers[i].lock_latency));
+ if (!workers[i].lock_latency)
+ err(EXIT_FAILURE, "calloc");
+ }
+
/* Set CPU affinity */
pthread_attr_init(&thread_attr);
CPU_ZERO_S(cpuset_size, cpuset);
@@ -228,6 +317,12 @@ static int bench_sync_lock_generic(struct lock_ops *ops, int argc, const char **
printf("Lock-unlock latency of %u threads: %"PRIu64".%"PRIu64" ns.\n",
nthreads, avg_ns, avg_ns_dot);
+ /* Print histogram if requested. */
+ if (do_hist)
+ print_histogram(workers);
+
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < nthreads; ++i)
+ free(workers[i].lock_latency);
free(workers);
return 0;
--
2.50.1.487.gc89ff58d15-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-29 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-29 2:26 [PATCH v1 0/7] perf bench: Add qspinlock benchmark Yuzhuo Jing
2025-07-29 2:26 ` [PATCH v1 1/7] tools: Import cmpxchg and xchg functions Yuzhuo Jing
2025-07-31 4:52 ` Namhyung Kim
2025-08-08 6:11 ` kernel test robot
2025-07-29 2:26 ` [PATCH v1 2/7] tools: Import smp_cond_load and atomic_cond_read Yuzhuo Jing
2025-07-29 2:26 ` [PATCH v1 3/7] tools: Partial import of prefetch.h Yuzhuo Jing
2025-07-31 4:54 ` Namhyung Kim
2025-07-29 2:26 ` [PATCH v1 4/7] tools: Implement userspace per-cpu Yuzhuo Jing
2025-07-31 5:07 ` Namhyung Kim
2025-07-29 2:26 ` [PATCH v1 5/7] perf bench: Import qspinlock from kernel Yuzhuo Jing
2025-07-29 2:26 ` [PATCH v1 6/7] perf bench: Add 'bench sync qspinlock' subcommand Yuzhuo Jing
2025-07-31 5:16 ` Namhyung Kim
2025-07-31 13:19 ` Yuzhuo Jing
2025-07-29 2:26 ` Yuzhuo Jing [this message]
2025-07-31 5:18 ` [PATCH v1 7/7] perf bench sync: Add latency histogram functionality Namhyung Kim
2025-07-31 5:24 ` Namhyung Kim
2025-07-31 4:51 ` [PATCH v1 0/7] perf bench: Add qspinlock benchmark Namhyung Kim
2025-08-04 14:28 ` Mark Rutland
2025-09-16 14:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-09-16 17:00 ` Ian Rogers
2025-09-16 20:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
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