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<title>wireguard-linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c, branch update-toolchain</title>
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<title>selftests: bpf: crypto: add benchmark for crypto functions</title>
<updated>2024-04-24T23:01:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vadim Fedorenko</name>
<email>vadfed@meta.com</email>
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<published>2024-04-22T22:50:24Z</published>
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Some simple benchmarks are added to understand the baseline of
performance.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko &lt;vadfed@meta.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240422225024.2847039-5-vadfed@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/bpf: add batched tp/raw_tp/fmodret tests</title>
<updated>2024-03-29T01:31:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-03-26T16:21:51Z</published>
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Utilize bpf_modify_return_test_tp() kfunc to have a fast way to trigger
tp/raw_tp/fmodret programs from another BPF program, which gives us
comparable batched benchmarks to (batched) kprobe/fentry benchmarks.

We don't switch kprobe/fentry batched benchmarks to this kfunc to make
bench tool usable on older kernels as well.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326162151.3981687-7-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/bpf: remove syscall-driven benchs, keep syscall-count only</title>
<updated>2024-03-29T01:31:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-03-26T16:21:48Z</published>
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Remove "legacy" benchmarks triggered by syscalls in favor of newly added
in-kernel/batched benchmarks. Drop -batched suffix now as well.
Next patch will restore "feature parity" by adding back
tp/raw_tp/fmodret benchmarks based on in-kernel kfunc approach.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326162151.3981687-4-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/bpf: add batched, mostly in-kernel BPF triggering benchmarks</title>
<updated>2024-03-29T01:31:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-26T16:21:47Z</published>
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Existing kprobe/fentry triggering benchmarks have 1-to-1 mapping between
one syscall execution and BPF program run. While we use a fast
get_pgid() syscall, syscall overhead can still be non-trivial.

This patch adds kprobe/fentry set of benchmarks significantly amortizing
the cost of syscall vs actual BPF triggering overhead. We do this by
employing BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN command to trigger "driver" raw_tp program
which does a tight parameterized loop calling cheap BPF helper
(bpf_get_numa_node_id()), to which kprobe/fentry programs are
attached for benchmarking.

This way 1 bpf() syscall causes N executions of BPF program being
benchmarked. N defaults to 100, but can be adjusted with
--trig-batch-iters CLI argument.

For comparison we also implement a new baseline program that instead of
triggering another BPF program just does N atomic per-CPU counter
increments, establishing the limit for all other types of program within
this batched benchmarking setup.

Taking the final set of benchmarks added in this patch set (including
tp/raw_tp/fmodret, added in later patch), and keeping for now "legacy"
syscall-driven benchmarks, we can capture all triggering benchmarks in
one place for comparison, before we remove the legacy ones (and rename
xxx-batched into just xxx).

$ benchs/run_bench_trigger.sh
usermode-count       :   79.500 ± 0.024M/s
kernel-count         :   49.949 ± 0.081M/s
syscall-count        :    9.009 ± 0.007M/s

fentry-batch         :   31.002 ± 0.015M/s
fexit-batch          :   20.372 ± 0.028M/s
fmodret-batch        :   21.651 ± 0.659M/s
rawtp-batch          :   36.775 ± 0.264M/s
tp-batch             :   19.411 ± 0.248M/s
kprobe-batch         :   12.949 ± 0.220M/s
kprobe-multi-batch   :   15.400 ± 0.007M/s
kretprobe-batch      :    5.559 ± 0.011M/s
kretprobe-multi-batch:    5.861 ± 0.003M/s

fentry-legacy        :    8.329 ± 0.004M/s
fexit-legacy         :    6.239 ± 0.003M/s
fmodret-legacy       :    6.595 ± 0.001M/s
rawtp-legacy         :    8.305 ± 0.004M/s
tp-legacy            :    6.382 ± 0.001M/s
kprobe-legacy        :    5.528 ± 0.003M/s
kprobe-multi-legacy  :    5.864 ± 0.022M/s
kretprobe-legacy     :    3.081 ± 0.001M/s
kretprobe-multi-legacy:   3.193 ± 0.001M/s

Note how xxx-batch variants are measured with significantly higher
throughput, even though it's exactly the same in-kernel overhead. As
such, results can be compared only between benchmarks of the same kind
(syscall vs batched):

fentry-legacy        :    8.329 ± 0.004M/s
fentry-batch         :   31.002 ± 0.015M/s

kprobe-multi-legacy  :    5.864 ± 0.022M/s
kprobe-multi-batch   :   15.400 ± 0.007M/s

Note also that syscall-count is setting a theoretical limit for
syscall-triggered benchmarks, while kernel-count is setting similar
limits for batch variants. usermode-count is a happy and unachievable
case of user space counting without doing any syscalls, and is mostly
the measure of CPU speed for such a trivial benchmark.

As was mentioned, tp/raw_tp/fmodret require kernel-side kfunc to produce
similar benchmark, which we address in a separate patch.

Note that run_bench_trigger.sh allows to override a list of benchmarks
to run, which is very useful for performance work.

Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326162151.3981687-3-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/bpf: rename and clean up userspace-triggered benchmarks</title>
<updated>2024-03-29T01:31:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-26T16:21:46Z</published>
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Rename uprobe-base to more precise usermode-count (it will match other
baseline-like benchmarks, kernel-count and syscall-count). Also use
BENCH_TRIG_USERMODE() macro to define all usermode-based triggering
benchmarks, which include usermode-count and uprobe/uretprobe benchmarks.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326162151.3981687-2-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi triggering benchmarks</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T23:06:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T21:10:23Z</published>
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Adding kprobe multi triggering benchmarks. It's useful now to bench
new fprobe implementation and might be useful later as well.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240311211023.590321-1-jolsa@kernel.org
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<title>selftests/bpf: Add fexit and kretprobe triggering benchmarks</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T16:00:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-09T00:51:24Z</published>
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We already have kprobe and fentry benchmarks. Let's add kretprobe and
fexit ones for completeness.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240309005124.3004446-1-andrii@kernel.org
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<title>selftests/bpf: Extend uprobe/uretprobe triggering benchmarks</title>
<updated>2024-03-04T13:40:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-01T21:45:51Z</published>
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Settle on three "flavors" of uprobe/uretprobe, installed on different
kinds of instruction: nop, push, and ret. All three are testing
different internal code paths emulating or single-stepping instructions,
so are interesting to compare and benchmark separately.

To ensure `push rbp` instruction we ensure that uprobe_target_push() is
not a leaf function by calling (global __weak) noop function and
returning something afterwards (if we don't do that, compiler will just
do a tail call optimization).

Also, we need to make sure that compiler isn't skipping frame pointer
generation, so let's add `-fno-omit-frame-pointers` to Makefile.

Just to give an idea of where we currently stand in terms of relative
performance of different uprobe/uretprobe cases vs a cheap syscall
(getpgid()) baseline, here are results from my local machine:

$ benchs/run_bench_uprobes.sh
base           :    1.561 ± 0.020M/s
uprobe-nop     :    0.947 ± 0.007M/s
uprobe-push    :    0.951 ± 0.004M/s
uprobe-ret     :    0.443 ± 0.007M/s
uretprobe-nop  :    0.471 ± 0.013M/s
uretprobe-push :    0.483 ± 0.004M/s
uretprobe-ret  :    0.306 ± 0.007M/s

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240301214551.1686095-1-andrii@kernel.org
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<title>selftests/bpf: Fix bench runner SIGSEGV</title>
<updated>2024-02-01T21:16:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-01T17:20:27Z</published>
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Some benchmarks don't have either "consumer" or "producer" sides. For
example, trig-tp and other BPF triggering benchmarks don't have
consumers, as they only do "producing" by calling into syscall or
predefined uproes. As such it's valid for some benchmarks to have zero
consumers or producers. So allows to specify `-c0` explicitly.

This triggers another problem. If benchmark doesn't support either
consumer or producer side, consumer_thread/producer_thread callback will
be NULL, but benchmark runner will attempt to use those NULL callback to
create threads anyways. So instead of crashing with SIGSEGV in case of
misconfigured benchmark, detect the condition and report error.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240201172027.604869-6-andrii@kernel.org
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<title>selftests/bpf: Add benchmark for bpf memory allocator</title>
<updated>2023-07-06T01:36:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hou Tao</name>
<email>houtao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-04T02:50:39Z</published>
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The benchmark could be used to compare the performance of hash map
operations and the memory usage between different flavors of bpf memory
allocator (e.g., no bpf ma vs bpf ma vs reuse-after-gp bpf ma). It also
could be used to check the performance improvement or the memory saving
provided by optimization.

The benchmark creates a non-preallocated hash map which uses bpf memory
allocator and shows the operation performance and the memory usage of
the hash map under different use cases:
(1) overwrite
Each CPU overwrites nonoverlapping part of hash map. When each CPU
completes overwriting of 64 elements in hash map, it increases the
op_count.
(2) batch_add_batch_del
Each CPU adds then deletes nonoverlapping part of hash map in batch.
When each CPU adds and deletes 64 elements in hash map, it increases
the op_count twice.
(3) add_del_on_diff_cpu
Each two-CPUs pair adds and deletes nonoverlapping part of map
cooperatively. When each CPU adds or deletes 64 elements in hash map,
it will increase the op_count.

The following is the benchmark results when comparing between different
flavors of bpf memory allocator. These tests are conducted on a KVM guest
with 8 CPUs and 16 GB memory. The command line below is used to do all
the following benchmarks:

  ./bench htab-mem --use-case $name ${OPTS} -w3 -d10 -a -p8

These results show that preallocated hash map has both better performance
and smaller memory footprint.

(1) non-preallocated + no bpf memory allocator (v6.0.19)
use kmalloc() + call_rcu

overwrite            per-prod-op: 11.24 ± 0.07k/s, avg mem: 82.64 ± 26.32MiB, peak mem: 119.18MiB
batch_add_batch_del  per-prod-op: 18.45 ± 0.10k/s, avg mem: 50.47 ± 14.51MiB, peak mem: 94.96MiB
add_del_on_diff_cpu  per-prod-op: 14.50 ± 0.03k/s, avg mem: 4.64 ± 0.73MiB, peak mem: 7.20MiB

(2) preallocated
OPTS=--preallocated

overwrite            per-prod-op: 191.42 ± 0.09k/s, avg mem: 1.24 ± 0.00MiB, peak mem: 1.49MiB
batch_add_batch_del  per-prod-op: 221.83 ± 0.17k/s, avg mem: 1.23 ± 0.00MiB, peak mem: 1.49MiB
add_del_on_diff_cpu  per-prod-op: 39.66 ± 0.31k/s, avg mem: 1.47 ± 0.13MiB, peak mem: 1.75MiB

(3) normal bpf memory allocator

overwrite            per-prod-op: 126.59 ± 0.02k/s, avg mem: 2.26 ± 0.00MiB, peak mem: 2.74MiB
batch_add_batch_del  per-prod-op: 83.37 ± 0.20k/s, avg mem: 2.14 ± 0.17MiB, peak mem: 2.74MiB
add_del_on_diff_cpu  per-prod-op: 21.25 ± 0.24k/s, avg mem: 17.50 ± 3.32MiB, peak mem: 28.87MiB

Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704025039.938914-1-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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