Improve string benchtest timing. Many tests run for 0.01s which is way too
short to give accurate results. Other tests take over 40 seconds which is
way too long. Significantly increase the iterations of the short running
tests. Reduce number of alignment variations in the long running memcpy walk
tests so they take less than 5 seconds.
As a result most tests take at least 0.1s and all finish within 5 seconds.
* benchtests/bench-memcpy-random.c (do_one_test): Use medium iterations.
* benchtests/bench-memcpy-walk.c (test_main): Reduce alignment tests.
* benchtests/bench-memmem.c (do_one_test): Use small iterations.
* benchtests/bench-memmove-walk.c (test_main): Reduce alignment tests.
* benchtests/bench-memset-walk.c (test_main): Reduce alignment tests.
* benchtests/bench-strcasestr.c (do_one_test): Use small iterations.
* benchtests/bench-string.h (INNER_LOOP_ITERS): Increase iterations.
(INNER_LOOP_ITERS_MEDIUM): New define.
(INNER_LOOP_ITERS_SMALL): New define.
* benchtests/bench-strpbrk.c (do_one_test): Use medium iterations.
* benchtests/bench-strsep.c (do_one_test): Use small iterations.
* benchtests/bench-strspn.c (do_one_test): Use medium iterations.
* benchtests/bench-strstr.c (do_one_test): Use small iterations.
* benchtests/bench-strtok.c (do_one_test): Use small iterations.
Improve strstr performance. Strstr tends to be slow because it uses
many calls to memchr and a slow byte loop to scan for the next match.
Performance is significantly improved by using strnlen on larger blocks
and using strchr to search for the next matching character. strcasestr
can also use strnlen to scan ahead, and memmem can use memchr to check
for the next match.
On the GLIBC bench tests the performance gains on Cortex-A72 are:
strstr: +25%
strcasestr: +4.3%
memmem: +18%
On a 256KB dataset strstr performance improves by 67%, strcasestr by 47%.
Reviewd-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Switch the string benchmarks to using bench-timing.h instead
of hp-timing.h directly. This allows the string benchmarks to
be run usefully on architectures such as ARM that do not have
support for hp-timing.h.
In order to do this the tests have been changed from timing each
individual call and picking the lowest execution time recorded to
timing a number of calls and taking the mean execution time.
ChangeLog:
2013-09-04 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* benchtests/bench-timing.h (TIMING_PRINT_MEAN): New macro.
* benchtests/bench-string.h: Include bench-timing.h instead
of including hp-timing.h directly. (INNER_LOOP_ITERS): New
define. (HP_TIMING_BEST): Delete macro. (test_init): Remove
call to HP_TIMING_DIFF_INIT.
* benchtests/bench-memccpy.c: Use bench-timing.h macros
instead of hp-timing.h macros.
* benchtests/bench-memchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memcmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memcpy.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memmem.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memmove.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-memset.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-rawmemchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcasecmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcasestr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcat.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcpy.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strcpy_chk.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strlen.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncasecmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncat.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncmp.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strncpy.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strnlen.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strpbrk.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strrchr.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strspn.c: Likewise.
* benchtests/bench-strstr.c: Likewise.
