This patchset adds a new "PMD cyclecount" test mode for test-crypto-perf application. This mode is intended to measure hardware acceleration cost (in terms of cycle count) more accurately than throughput test.
The general idea is the following: - Measure build-alloc-free cycle separately - Alloc and build ops - Measure completely filling up the TX ring - Wait until ops are processed - Measure completely draining the RX ring - Free all allocated ops In order to make measurements more accurate, the enqueue/dequeue is still done in bursts of specified size, but all of the bursts are now part of a "superburst" of size equal to number of descriptors configured for the device. So, if the number of descriptors configured was 2048 (the default), then 2048 ops will be enqueued and dequeued, in bursts of size specified by test command line. The following command-line switch will run the test: --ptest=pmd-cyclecount In addition to a new mode, two mode command line switches are added: - --desc-nb - configure number of cryptodev descriptors. This value was previously hardcoded to 2048, but is now configurable and set to 2048 by default (so existing behavior is unchanged). - --pmd-cyclecount-delay-ms - pmd-cyclecount-specific parameter that configures the delay (in milliseconds) between TX and RX superbursts, to allow hardware to process ops. Set to 0 by default, and it is expected that each user will tune it for every device. This has no effect on other benchmark modes. PMD cyclecount mode can be used to benchmark software cryptodev drivers as well, but the results will be far less accurate for smaller burst sizes. v2: squashed documentation patches into relevant commits fixed documentation fixed commit messages formatting and naming fixes Anatoly Burakov (2): app/crypto-perf: add nb-desc parameter app/crypto-perf: add new PMD benchmarking mode app/test-crypto-perf/Makefile | 1 + app/test-crypto-perf/cperf_options.h | 10 +- app/test-crypto-perf/cperf_options_parsing.c | 54 ++ app/test-crypto-perf/cperf_test_pmd_cyclecount.c | 675 +++++++++++++++++++++++ app/test-crypto-perf/cperf_test_pmd_cyclecount.h | 61 ++ app/test-crypto-perf/main.c | 11 +- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst | 6 + doc/guides/tools/cryptoperf.rst | 14 +- 8 files changed, 828 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 app/test-crypto-perf/cperf_test_pmd_cyclecount.c create mode 100644 app/test-crypto-perf/cperf_test_pmd_cyclecount.h -- 2.7.4