Re: [PATCH] perf bench: Add benchmark of find_next_bit

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf bench: Add benchmark of find_next_bit
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:59:18 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200729195918.GE433799@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200728115152.GB3328@kernel.org>

Em Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 08:51:52AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:19:59AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> > for_each_set_bit, or similar functions like for_each_cpu, may be hot
> > within the kernel. If many bits were set then one could imagine on
> > Intel a "bt" instruction with every bit may be faster than the function
> > call and word length find_next_bit logic. Add a benchmark to measure
> > this.
> 
> Thanks, applied.
> 
> - Arnaldo
>  
> > This benchmark on AMD rome and Intel skylakex shows "bt" is not a good
> > option except for very small bitmaps.

> > +++ b/tools/perf/bench/find-bit-bench.c

> > +#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
> > +static bool asm_test_bit(long nr, const unsigned long *addr)
> > +{
> > +	bool oldbit;
> > +
> > +	asm volatile("bt %2,%1"
> > +		     : "=@ccc" (oldbit)
> > +		     : "m" (*(unsigned long *)addr), "Ir" (nr) : "memory");
> > +
> > +	return oldbit;

Some old clang versions are not liking this:

clang version 3.8.0 (tags/RELEASE_380/final)
Target: x86_64-alpine-linux-musl
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/5.3.0
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/5.3.0
Selected GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/5.3.0
Candidate multilib: .;@m64
Selected multilib: .;@m64
+ make ARCH= CROSS_COMPILE= EXTRA_CFLAGS= -C /git/linux/tools/perf O=/tmp/build/perf CC=clang

  CC       /tmp/build/perf/trace/beauty/pkey_alloc.o
  CC       /tmp/build/perf/tests/openat-syscall-tp-fields.o
bench/find-bit-bench.c:46:10: error: invalid output constraint '=@ccc' in asm
                     : "=@ccc" (oldbit)
                       ^
1 error generated.
mv: can't rename '/tmp/build/perf/bench/.find-bit-bench.o.tmp': No such file or directory
/git/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:96: recipe for target '/tmp/build/perf/bench/find-bit-bench.o' failed
make[4]: *** [/tmp/build/perf/bench/find-bit-bench.o] Error 1
/git/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:139: recipe for target 'bench' failed
make[3]: *** [bench] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  MKDIR    /tmp/build/perf/arch/x86/tests/

Also:

clang version 3.8.1 (tags/RELEASE_381/final)
clang version 4.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_400/final)

- Arnaldo