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selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages
authorZhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com>
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:59:38 +0000 (09:59 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:34:19 +0000 (09:34 +1000)
commit8767db7ea52cabdf34c5765c8e923be567f6340e
treec43eced9fa9057352f3cad800c2dfdc46f670381
parent347612c5267f3763a55a3e792702ac364e3303ad
selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages

Since merged pages are copied every time they need to be modified, the
write access time is different between shared and non-shared pages.  Add
ksm_cow_time() function which evaluates latency of these COW breaks.
First, 4000 pages are allocated and the time, required to modify 1 byte in
every other page, is measured.  After this, the pages are merged into 2000
pairs and in each pair, 1 page is modified (i.e.  they are decoupled) to
detect COW breaks.  The time needed to break COW of merged pages is then
compared with performance of non-shared pages.

The test is run as follows: ./ksm_tests -C
The output:
Total size:    15 MiB

Not merged pages:
Total time:     0.002185489 s
Average speed:  3202.945 MiB/s

Merged pages:
Total time:     0.004386872 s
Average speed:  1595.670 MiB/s

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1d03ee0d1b341959d4b61672c6401d498bff5652.1629386192.git.zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
tools/testing/selftests/vm/ksm_tests.c