Further improve string bench timing
authorWilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr@arm.com>
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:42:36 +0000 (13:42 +0100)
committerWilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr@arm.com>
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:42:36 +0000 (13:42 +0100)
Further improve the timings of the string benchmarks.  Ensure most take
between 1 and 4 seconds to improve accuracy.  Overall time taken increases
by 35%.  Tested on AArch64.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
* benchtests/bench-math-inlines.c: Increase iterations.
* benchtests/bench-memcmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-rawmemchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcpy_chk.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-string.h (INNER_LOOP_ITERS8): Add define.
(INNER_LOOP_ITERS_MEDIUM): Increase iterations.
(INNER_LOOP_ITERS_SMALL): Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncat.c: Increase iterations.
* benchtests/bench-strncmp.c: Increase iterations.
* benchtests/bench-strncpy.c: Reduce iterations for wide strings.
* benchtests/bench-strrchr.c: Increase iterations.
* benchtests/bench-strstr.c: Keep iterations unchanged.
* benchtests/bench-strtod.c: Increase iterations.

13 files changed:
ChangeLog
benchtests/bench-math-inlines.c
benchtests/bench-memcmp.c
benchtests/bench-rawmemchr.c
benchtests/bench-strcmp.c
benchtests/bench-strcpy_chk.c
benchtests/bench-string.h
benchtests/bench-strncat.c
benchtests/bench-strncmp.c
benchtests/bench-strncpy.c
benchtests/bench-strrchr.c
benchtests/bench-strstr.c
benchtests/bench-strtod.c

index 718829d..aece032 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+2019-06-28  Wilco Dijkstra  <wdijkstr@arm.com>
+
+       * benchtests/bench-math-inlines.c: Increase iterations.
+       * benchtests/bench-memcmp.c: Likewise.
+       * benchtests/bench-rawmemchr.c: Likewise.
+       * benchtests/bench-strcmp.c: Likewise.
+       * benchtests/bench-strcpy_chk.c: Likewise.
+       * benchtests/bench-string.h (INNER_LOOP_ITERS8): Add define.
+       (INNER_LOOP_ITERS_MEDIUM): Increase iterations.
+       (INNER_LOOP_ITERS_SMALL): Likewise.
+       * benchtests/bench-strncat.c: Increase iterations.
+       * benchtests/bench-strncmp.c: Increase iterations.
+       * benchtests/bench-strncpy.c: Reduce iterations for wide strings.
+       * benchtests/bench-strrchr.c: Increase iterations.
+       * benchtests/bench-strstr.c: Keep iterations unchanged.
+       * benchtests/bench-strtod.c: Increase iterations.
+
 2019-06-28  Anton Youdkevitch  <anton.youdkevitch@bell-sw.com>
 
        * benchtests/bench-memccpy.c: Replace INNER_LOOP_ITERS
index aed85ca..37331bc 100644 (file)
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static void
 do_one_test (json_ctx_t *json_ctx, proto_t test_fn, volatile double *arr,
             size_t len, const char *testname)
 {
-  size_t iters = 500;
+  size_t iters = 2048;
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
 
   json_attr_object_begin (json_ctx, testname);
index 4f01e31..a6af107 100644 (file)
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static void
 do_one_test (json_ctx_t *json_ctx, impl_t *impl, const CHAR *s1,
             const CHAR *s2, size_t len, int exp_result)
 {
-  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS;
+  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS8;
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
 
   TIMING_NOW (start);
index 5cdfdf7..f7e1524 100644 (file)
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ IMPL (generic_rawmemchr, 0)
 static void
 do_one_test (impl_t *impl, const char *s, int c, char *exp_res)
 {
-  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS_LARGE;
+  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS_LARGE * 4;
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
   char *res = CALL (impl, s, c);
   if (res != exp_res)
index c87b3ac..b8d355c 100644 (file)
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ do_one_test (json_ctx_t *json_ctx, impl_t *impl,
             const CHAR *s1, const CHAR *s2,
             int exp_result)
 {
-  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS;
+  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS8;
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
 
   TIMING_NOW (start);
index 3030763..34c9c78 100644 (file)
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ do_one_test (impl_t *impl, char *dst, const char *src,
             size_t len, size_t dlen)
 {
   char *res;
-  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS;
+  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS8;
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
 
   if (dlen <= len)
index 7d35791..4831e21 100644 (file)
@@ -125,9 +125,10 @@ extern impl_t __start_impls[], __stop_impls[];
 # define OPT_SEED 10002
 
 # define INNER_LOOP_ITERS 8192
+# define INNER_LOOP_ITERS8 32768
 # define INNER_LOOP_ITERS_LARGE 131072
-# define INNER_LOOP_ITERS_MEDIUM 1024
-# define INNER_LOOP_ITERS_SMALL 32
+# define INNER_LOOP_ITERS_MEDIUM 2048
+# define INNER_LOOP_ITERS_SMALL 256
 
 int ret, do_srandom;
 unsigned int seed;
index 7271626..e7583df 100644 (file)
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ IMPL (generic_strncat, 0)
 static void
 do_one_test (impl_t *impl, CHAR *dst, const CHAR *src, size_t n)
 {
-  size_t k = STRLEN (dst), i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS;
+  size_t k = STRLEN (dst), i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS8;
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
 
   if (CALL (impl, dst, src, n) != dst)
index a4f3412..bd3f9b2 100644 (file)
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static void
 do_one_test (json_ctx_t *json_ctx, impl_t *impl, const CHAR *s1, const CHAR
             *s2, size_t n, int exp_result)
 {
-  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS;
+  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS8;
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
 
   TIMING_NOW (start);
index c6a6799..a26232f 100644 (file)
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ typedef CHAR *(*proto_t) (CHAR *, const CHAR *, size_t);
 static void
 do_one_test (impl_t *impl, CHAR *dst, const CHAR *src, size_t len, size_t n)
 {
-  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS_LARGE;
+  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS_LARGE * (4 / CHARBYTES);
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
 
   if (CALL (impl, dst, src, n) != STRNCPY_RESULT (dst, len, n))
index faf6426..bdb3b41 100644 (file)
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void
 do_one_test (impl_t *impl, const CHAR *s, int c, CHAR *exp_res)
 {
   CHAR *res = CALL (impl, s, c);
-  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS;
+  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS8;
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
 
   if (res != exp_res)
index 89d1755..36b7669 100644 (file)
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ IMPL (basic_strstr, 0)
 static void
 do_one_test (impl_t *impl, const char *s1, const char *s2, char *exp_result)
 {
-  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS_SMALL;
+  size_t i, iters = INNER_LOOP_ITERS_SMALL / 8;
   timing_t start, stop, cur;
   char *res;
 
index d5b2503..780c04a 100644 (file)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #include "bench-timing.h"
 
 #undef INNER_LOOP_ITERS
-#define INNER_LOOP_ITERS 65536
+#define INNER_LOOP_ITERS 131072
 
 static const char *inputs[] =
 {