Re: [PATCHES/RFC 1/5] perf bench uprobe + BPF skel

From: Google
Date: Fri Jul 21 2023 - 10:32:30 EST


On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:49:05 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This adds a 'perf bench' to test the overhead of uprobes + BPF
> programs, for now just a few simple tests, but I plan to make it
> possible to specify the functions to attach the uprobe + BPF, other BPF
> operations dealing with maps, etc.
>
> This is how it looks like now:
>
> [root@five ~]# perf bench uprobe all
> # Running uprobe/baseline benchmark...
> # Executed 1,000 usleep(1000) calls
> Total time: 1,053,963 usecs
>
> 1,053.963 usecs/op
>
> # Running uprobe/empty benchmark...
> # Executed 1,000 usleep(1000) calls
> Total time: 1,056,293 usecs +2,330 to baseline
>
> 1,056.293 usecs/op 2.330 usecs/op to baseline
>
> # Running uprobe/trace_printk benchmark...
> # Executed 1,000 usleep(1000) calls
> Total time: 1,056,977 usecs +3,014 to baseline +684 to previous
>
> 1,056.977 usecs/op 3.014 usecs/op to baseline 0.684 usecs/op to previous
>
> [root@five ~]

Looks great! maybe we can also make kprobes benchmark too (but it depends
on optimization and ftrace-based...)

Thank you,

>
> I put it here:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/commit/?h=perf-bench-uprobe
>
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf-bench-uprobe
>
> Further ideas, problems?
>
> - Arnaldo
>
>
>
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (5):
> perf bench uprobe: Add benchmark to test uprobe overhead
> perf bench uprobe: Print diff to baseline
> perf bench uprobe: Show diff to previous
> perf bench uprobe empty: Add entry attaching an empty BPF program
> perf bench uprobe trace_printk: Add entry attaching an BPF program that does a trace_printk
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt | 3 +
> tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 1 +
> tools/perf/bench/Build | 1 +
> tools/perf/bench/bench.h | 3 +
> tools/perf/bench/uprobe.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/builtin-bench.c | 8 +
> tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/bench_uprobe.bpf.c | 23 +++
> 7 files changed, 237 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/bench/uprobe.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/bench_uprobe.bpf.c
>
> --
> 2.41.0
>


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