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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 <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326162151.3981687-3-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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