1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
4 * Copyright (C) 2018 Davidlohr Bueso.
6 * This program benchmarks concurrent epoll_wait(2) monitoring multiple
7 * file descriptors under one or two load balancing models. The first,
8 * and default, is the single/combined queueing (which refers to a single
9 * epoll instance for N worker threads):
13 * [combined queue] .---> [worker C]
17 * While the second model, enabled via --multiq option, uses multiple
18 * queueing (which refers to one epoll instance per worker). For example,
19 * short lived tcp connections in a high throughput httpd server will
20 * ditribute the accept()'ing connections across CPUs. In this case each
21 * worker does a limited amount of processing.
23 * [queue A] ---> [worker]
24 * [queue B] ---> [worker]
25 * [queue C] ---> [worker]
26 * [queue D] ---> [worker]
27 * [queue E] ---> [worker]
29 * Naturally, the single queue will enforce more concurrency on the epoll
30 * instance, and can therefore scale poorly compared to multiple queues.
31 * However, this is a benchmark raw data and must be taken with a grain of
32 * salt when choosing how to make use of sys_epoll.
34 * Each thread has a number of private, nonblocking file descriptors,
35 * referred to as fdmap. A writer thread will constantly be writing to
36 * the fdmaps of all threads, minimizing each threads's chances of
37 * epoll_wait not finding any ready read events and blocking as this
38 * is not what we want to stress. The size of the fdmap can be adjusted
39 * by the user; enlarging the value will increase the chances of
40 * epoll_wait(2) blocking as the lineal writer thread will take "longer",
41 * at least at a high level.
43 * Note that because fds are private to each thread, this workload does
44 * not stress scenarios where multiple tasks are awoken per ready IO; ie:
45 * EPOLLEXCLUSIVE semantics.
47 * The end result/metric is throughput: number of ops/second where an
48 * operation consists of:
50 * epoll_wait(2) + [others]
52 * ... where [others] is the cost of re-adding the fd (EPOLLET),
53 * or rearming it (EPOLLONESHOT).
56 * The purpose of this is program is that it be useful for measuring
57 * kernel related changes to the sys_epoll, and not comparing different
58 * IO polling methods, for example. Hence everything is very adhoc and
59 * outputs raw microbenchmark numbers. Also this uses eventfd, similar
60 * tools tend to use pipes or sockets, but the result is the same.
63 /* For the CLR_() macros */
71 #include <linux/compiler.h>
72 #include <linux/kernel.h>
74 #include <sys/resource.h>
75 #include <sys/epoll.h>
76 #include <sys/eventfd.h>
77 #include <sys/types.h>
79 #include "../util/stat.h"
80 #include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
86 #define printinfo(fmt, arg...) \
87 do { if (__verbose) { printf(fmt, ## arg); fflush(stdout); } } while (0)
89 static unsigned int nthreads
= 0;
90 static unsigned int nsecs
= 8;
91 struct timeval start
, end
, runtime
;
92 static bool wdone
, done
, __verbose
, randomize
, nonblocking
;
95 * epoll related shared variables.
98 /* Maximum number of nesting allowed inside epoll sets */
99 #define EPOLL_MAXNESTS 4
102 static int *epollfdp
;
103 static bool noaffinity
;
104 static unsigned int nested
= 0;
105 static bool et
; /* edge-trigger */
107 static bool multiq
; /* use an epoll instance per thread */
109 /* amount of fds to monitor, per thread */
110 static unsigned int nfds
= 64;
112 static pthread_mutex_t thread_lock
;
113 static unsigned int threads_starting
;
114 static struct stats throughput_stats
;
115 static pthread_cond_t thread_parent
, thread_worker
;
119 int epollfd
; /* for --multiq */
125 static const struct option options
[] = {
126 /* general benchmark options */
127 OPT_UINTEGER('t', "threads", &nthreads
, "Specify amount of threads"),
128 OPT_UINTEGER('r', "runtime", &nsecs
, "Specify runtime (in seconds)"),
129 OPT_UINTEGER('f', "nfds", &nfds
, "Specify amount of file descriptors to monitor for each thread"),
130 OPT_BOOLEAN( 'n', "noaffinity", &noaffinity
, "Disables CPU affinity"),
131 OPT_BOOLEAN('R', "randomize", &randomize
, "Enable random write behaviour (default is lineal)"),
132 OPT_BOOLEAN( 'v', "verbose", &__verbose
, "Verbose mode"),
134 /* epoll specific options */
135 OPT_BOOLEAN( 'm', "multiq", &multiq
, "Use multiple epoll instances (one per thread)"),
136 OPT_BOOLEAN( 'B', "nonblocking", &nonblocking
, "Nonblocking epoll_wait(2) behaviour"),
137 OPT_UINTEGER( 'N', "nested", &nested
, "Nesting level epoll hierarchy (default is 0, no nesting)"),
138 OPT_BOOLEAN( 'S', "oneshot", &oneshot
, "Use EPOLLONESHOT semantics"),
139 OPT_BOOLEAN( 'E', "edge", &et
, "Use Edge-triggered interface (default is LT)"),
144 static const char * const bench_epoll_wait_usage
[] = {
145 "perf bench epoll wait <options>",
151 * Arrange the N elements of ARRAY in random order.
152 * Only effective if N is much smaller than RAND_MAX;
153 * if this may not be the case, use a better random
154 * number generator. -- Ben Pfaff.
156 static void shuffle(void *array
, size_t n
, size_t size
)
158 char *carray
= array
;
165 aux
= calloc(1, size
);
167 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "calloc");
169 for (i
= 1; i
< n
; ++i
) {
170 size_t j
= i
+ rand() / (RAND_MAX
/ (n
- i
) + 1);
173 memcpy(aux
, &carray
[j
], size
);
174 memcpy(&carray
[j
], &carray
[i
*size
], size
);
175 memcpy(&carray
[i
*size
], aux
, size
);
182 static void *workerfn(void *arg
)
185 struct worker
*w
= (struct worker
*) arg
;
186 unsigned long ops
= w
->ops
;
187 struct epoll_event ev
;
189 int to
= nonblocking
? 0 : -1;
190 int efd
= multiq
? w
->epollfd
: epollfd
;
192 pthread_mutex_lock(&thread_lock
);
194 if (!threads_starting
)
195 pthread_cond_signal(&thread_parent
);
196 pthread_cond_wait(&thread_worker
, &thread_lock
);
197 pthread_mutex_unlock(&thread_lock
);
201 * Block undefinitely waiting for the IN event.
202 * In order to stress the epoll_wait(2) syscall,
203 * call it event per event, instead of a larger
207 ret
= epoll_wait(efd
, &ev
, 1, to
);
208 } while (ret
< 0 && errno
== EINTR
);
210 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "epoll_wait");
215 r
= read(fd
, &val
, sizeof(val
));
216 } while (!done
&& (r
< 0 && errno
== EAGAIN
));
219 ev
.events
= EPOLLIN
| EPOLLET
;
220 ret
= epoll_ctl(efd
, EPOLL_CTL_ADD
, fd
, &ev
);
224 /* rearm the file descriptor with a new event mask */
225 ev
.events
|= EPOLLIN
| EPOLLONESHOT
;
226 ret
= epoll_ctl(efd
, EPOLL_CTL_MOD
, fd
, &ev
);
239 static void nest_epollfd(struct worker
*w
)
242 struct epoll_event ev
;
243 int efd
= multiq
? w
->epollfd
: epollfd
;
245 if (nested
> EPOLL_MAXNESTS
)
246 nested
= EPOLL_MAXNESTS
;
248 epollfdp
= calloc(nested
, sizeof(*epollfdp
));
250 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "calloc");
252 for (i
= 0; i
< nested
; i
++) {
253 epollfdp
[i
] = epoll_create(1);
255 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "epoll_create");
258 ev
.events
= EPOLLHUP
; /* anything */
259 ev
.data
.u64
= i
; /* any number */
261 for (i
= nested
- 1; i
; i
--) {
262 if (epoll_ctl(epollfdp
[i
- 1], EPOLL_CTL_ADD
,
263 epollfdp
[i
], &ev
) < 0)
264 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "epoll_ctl");
267 if (epoll_ctl(efd
, EPOLL_CTL_ADD
, *epollfdp
, &ev
) < 0)
268 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "epoll_ctl");
271 static void toggle_done(int sig __maybe_unused
,
272 siginfo_t
*info __maybe_unused
,
273 void *uc __maybe_unused
)
275 /* inform all threads that we're done for the day */
277 gettimeofday(&end
, NULL
);
278 timersub(&end
, &start
, &runtime
);
281 static void print_summary(void)
283 unsigned long avg
= avg_stats(&throughput_stats
);
284 double stddev
= stddev_stats(&throughput_stats
);
286 printf("\nAveraged %ld operations/sec (+- %.2f%%), total secs = %d\n",
287 avg
, rel_stddev_stats(stddev
, avg
),
288 (int) runtime
.tv_sec
);
291 static int do_threads(struct worker
*worker
, struct cpu_map
*cpu
)
293 pthread_attr_t thread_attr
, *attrp
= NULL
;
296 int ret
= 0, events
= EPOLLIN
;
299 events
|= EPOLLONESHOT
;
303 printinfo("starting worker/consumer %sthreads%s\n",
304 noaffinity
? "":"CPU affinity ",
305 nonblocking
? " (nonblocking)":"");
307 pthread_attr_init(&thread_attr
);
309 for (i
= 0; i
< nthreads
; i
++) {
310 struct worker
*w
= &worker
[i
];
313 w
->epollfd
= epoll_create(1);
315 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "epoll_create");
322 w
->fdmap
= calloc(nfds
, sizeof(int));
326 for (j
= 0; j
< nfds
; j
++) {
327 int efd
= multiq
? w
->epollfd
: epollfd
;
328 struct epoll_event ev
;
330 w
->fdmap
[j
] = eventfd(0, EFD_NONBLOCK
);
332 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "eventfd");
334 ev
.data
.fd
= w
->fdmap
[j
];
337 ret
= epoll_ctl(efd
, EPOLL_CTL_ADD
,
340 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "epoll_ctl");
345 CPU_SET(cpu
->map
[i
% cpu
->nr
], &cpuset
);
347 ret
= pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(&thread_attr
, sizeof(cpu_set_t
), &cpuset
);
349 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "pthread_attr_setaffinity_np");
351 attrp
= &thread_attr
;
354 ret
= pthread_create(&w
->thread
, attrp
, workerfn
,
355 (void *)(struct worker
*) w
);
357 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "pthread_create");
361 pthread_attr_destroy(&thread_attr
);
366 static void *writerfn(void *p
)
368 struct worker
*worker
= p
;
370 const uint64_t val
= 1;
372 struct timespec ts
= { .tv_sec
= 0,
375 printinfo("starting writer-thread: doing %s writes ...\n",
376 randomize
? "random":"lineal");
378 for (iter
= 0; !wdone
; iter
++) {
380 shuffle((void *)worker
, nthreads
, sizeof(*worker
));
383 for (i
= 0; i
< nthreads
; i
++) {
384 struct worker
*w
= &worker
[i
];
387 shuffle((void *)w
->fdmap
, nfds
, sizeof(int));
390 for (j
= 0; j
< nfds
; j
++) {
392 sz
= write(w
->fdmap
[j
], &val
, sizeof(val
));
393 } while (!wdone
&& (sz
< 0 && errno
== EAGAIN
));
397 nanosleep(&ts
, NULL
);
400 printinfo("exiting writer-thread (total full-loops: %zd)\n", iter
);
404 static int cmpworker(const void *p1
, const void *p2
)
407 struct worker
*w1
= (struct worker
*) p1
;
408 struct worker
*w2
= (struct worker
*) p2
;
409 return w1
->tid
> w2
->tid
;
412 int bench_epoll_wait(int argc
, const char **argv
)
415 struct sigaction act
;
417 struct worker
*worker
= NULL
;
420 struct rlimit rl
, prevrl
;
422 argc
= parse_options(argc
, argv
, options
, bench_epoll_wait_usage
, 0);
424 usage_with_options(bench_epoll_wait_usage
, options
);
428 sigfillset(&act
.sa_mask
);
429 act
.sa_sigaction
= toggle_done
;
430 sigaction(SIGINT
, &act
, NULL
);
432 cpu
= cpu_map__new(NULL
);
436 /* a single, main epoll instance */
438 epollfd
= epoll_create(1);
440 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "epoll_create");
443 * Deal with nested epolls, if any.
449 printinfo("Using %s queue model\n", multiq
? "multi" : "single");
450 printinfo("Nesting level(s): %d\n", nested
);
452 /* default to the number of CPUs and leave one for the writer pthread */
454 nthreads
= cpu
->nr
- 1;
456 worker
= calloc(nthreads
, sizeof(*worker
));
461 if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE
, &prevrl
))
462 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "getrlimit");
463 rl
.rlim_cur
= rl
.rlim_max
= nfds
* nthreads
* 2 + 50;
464 printinfo("Setting RLIMIT_NOFILE rlimit from %" PRIu64
" to: %" PRIu64
"\n",
465 (uint64_t)prevrl
.rlim_max
, (uint64_t)rl
.rlim_max
);
466 if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE
, &rl
) < 0)
467 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "setrlimit");
469 printf("Run summary [PID %d]: %d threads monitoring%s on "
470 "%d file-descriptors for %d secs.\n\n",
471 getpid(), nthreads
, oneshot
? " (EPOLLONESHOT semantics)": "", nfds
, nsecs
);
473 init_stats(&throughput_stats
);
474 pthread_mutex_init(&thread_lock
, NULL
);
475 pthread_cond_init(&thread_parent
, NULL
);
476 pthread_cond_init(&thread_worker
, NULL
);
478 threads_starting
= nthreads
;
480 gettimeofday(&start
, NULL
);
482 do_threads(worker
, cpu
);
484 pthread_mutex_lock(&thread_lock
);
485 while (threads_starting
)
486 pthread_cond_wait(&thread_parent
, &thread_lock
);
487 pthread_cond_broadcast(&thread_worker
);
488 pthread_mutex_unlock(&thread_lock
);
491 * At this point the workers should be blocked waiting for read events
492 * to become ready. Launch the writer which will constantly be writing
493 * to each thread's fdmap.
495 ret
= pthread_create(&wthread
, NULL
, writerfn
,
496 (void *)(struct worker
*) worker
);
498 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "pthread_create");
501 toggle_done(0, NULL
, NULL
);
502 printinfo("main thread: toggling done\n");
506 ret
= pthread_join(wthread
, NULL
);
508 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "pthread_join");
510 /* cleanup & report results */
511 pthread_cond_destroy(&thread_parent
);
512 pthread_cond_destroy(&thread_worker
);
513 pthread_mutex_destroy(&thread_lock
);
515 /* sort the array back before reporting */
517 qsort(worker
, nthreads
, sizeof(struct worker
), cmpworker
);
519 for (i
= 0; i
< nthreads
; i
++) {
520 unsigned long t
= worker
[i
].ops
/runtime
.tv_sec
;
522 update_stats(&throughput_stats
, t
);
525 printf("[thread %2d] fdmap: %p [ %04ld ops/sec ]\n",
526 worker
[i
].tid
, &worker
[i
].fdmap
[0], t
);
528 printf("[thread %2d] fdmap: %p ... %p [ %04ld ops/sec ]\n",
529 worker
[i
].tid
, &worker
[i
].fdmap
[0],
530 &worker
[i
].fdmap
[nfds
-1], t
);
538 err(EXIT_FAILURE
, "calloc");
540 #endif // HAVE_EVENTFD