lmbench memory bandwidth benchmark

lmbench memory bandwidth benchmark

[Jack Harvard]

hi, can someone help explain how bw_mem function works in lmbench? the
source code doesn't seem very user friendly, the papers are too vague
to help understand the code. an example for "bw_mem 512 frd" would be
very helpful.

Re: lmbench memory bandwidth benchmark

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> hi, can someone help explain how bw_mem function works in lmbench? the
>  source code doesn't seem very user friendly, the papers are too vague
>  to help understand the code. an example for "bw_mem 512 frd" would be
>  very helpful.

maybe, "gcc -E" can help you.

e.g.
 $ gcc -E bw_mem.c

got below.

frd(iter_t iterations, void *cookie)
{
 state_t *state = (state_t *) cookie;
 register int sum = 0;
 register int *lastone = state->lastone;

 while (iterations-- > 0) {
     register int *p = state->buf;
     while (p <= lastone) {
  sum +=

  p[0]+ p[1]+ p[2]+ p[3]+ p[4]+ p[5]+ p[6]+
  p[7]+ p[8]+ p[9]+ p[10]+ p[11]+ p[12]+
  p[13]+ p[14]+ p[15]+ p[16]+ p[17]+ p[18]+
  p[19]+ p[20]+ p[21]+ p[22]+ p[23]+ p[24]+
  p[25]+ p[26]+ p[27]+ p[28]+ p[29]+ p[30]+
  p[31]+ p[32]+ p[33]+ p[34]+ p[35]+ p[36]+
  p[37]+ p[38]+ p[39]+ p[40]+ p[41]+ p[42]+
  p[43]+ p[44]+ p[45]+ p[46]+ p[47]+ p[48]+
  p[49]+ p[50]+ p[51]+ p[52]+ p[53]+ p[54]+
  p[55]+ p[56]+ p[57]+ p[58]+ p[59]+ p[60]+
  p[61]+ p[62]+ p[63]+ p[64]+ p[65]+ p[66]+
  p[67]+ p[68]+ p[69]+ p[70]+ p[71]+ p[72]+
  p[73]+ p[74]+ p[75]+ p[76]+ p[77]+ p[78]+
  p[79]+ p[80]+ p[81]+ p[82]+ p[83]+ p[84]+
  p[85]+ p[86]+ p[87]+ p[88]+ p[89]+ p[90]+
  p[91]+ p[92]+ p[93]+ p[94]+ p[95]+ p[96]+
  p[97]+ p[98]+ p[99]+ p[100]+ p[101]+ p[102]+
  p[103]+ p[104]+ p[105]+ p[106]+ p[107]+
  p[108]+ p[109]+ p[110]+ p[111]+ p[112]+
  p[113]+ p[114]+ p[115]+ p[116]+ p[117]+
  p[118]+ p[119]+ p[120]+ p[121]+ p[122]+
  p[123]+ p[124]+ p[125]+ p[126]+ p[127];
  p += 128;
     }
 }
 use_int(sum);
}