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Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from morefine ([5.34.221.10]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-3a9d94d9bc5sm2346790a91.0.2026.10.07.21.11.27 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:11:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Changbin Du To: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Namhyung Kim Cc: Mark Rutland , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Ian Rogers , Adrian Hunter , James Clark , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Changbin Du Subject: [PATCH v3] perf bench: Add atomic operations benchmark Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 12:11:23 +0800 Message-ID: <20261008041123.1970315-1-changbin.du@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Add a new 'atomic' collection to perf bench for benchmarking atomic read-modify-write operations with multi-threaded contention testing. It provides two subcommands: - atomic cas: contended compare-and-swap operations (__atomic_compare_exchange_n) - atomic inc: contended fetch-add operations (__atomic_fetch_add) Both support configurable thread count and iteration count to measure atomic contention effects. Why this benchmark is needed: - Atomic read-modify-write operations are fundamental to lock-free algorithms and data structures. Understanding their performance characteristics under contention is critical for designing high-performance concurrent applications. - The benchmark helps identify atomic operation latency and scalability issues across different thread counts, revealing contention patterns that are not visible in single-threaded tests. - Useful for evaluating atomic implementation quality on different architectures and for regression testing after changes to atomic primitives or memory ordering. Measurement methodology: - Each thread starts a private timer (clock_gettime CLOCK_MONOTONIC) after synchronizing on a pthread_barrier, ensuring all threads begin simultaneously. - Each thread performs a hot loop of the selected atomic operation (compare-and-swap or fetch-add) on a shared unsigned long counter, incrementing it from 0 to iterations. - The shared counter is cache-line aligned (64 bytes) to isolate contention to the target cache line and avoid false sharing. - The wall-clock time is measured as the max of all per-thread runtimes (the time for the slowest thread to finish). - The first repeat is excluded from statistics as a warmup phase to avoid cache-cold effects. Example usage: $ perf bench atomic all # Running atomic/cas benchmark... Threads: 2, iterations/thread: 100000000, repeats: 10 (warmup: 1) Avg wall-clock time: 3286.297 msec (stddev 6.820 msec) Total ops: 200,000,000 Throughput total: 60,858,769 ops/sec Per-thread times and throughput (last repeat): fastest: 3304.312 msec (30263489 ops/sec) slowest: 3325.518 msec (30070504 ops/sec) avg: 3314.915 msec (30166688 ops/sec) # Running atomic/inc benchmark... Threads: 2, iterations/thread: 100000000, repeats: 10 (warmup: 1) Avg wall-clock time: 2170.716 msec (stddev 7.306 msec) Total ops: 200,000,000 Throughput total: 92,135,503 ops/sec Per-thread times and throughput (last repeat): fastest: 2196.458 msec (45527849 ops/sec) slowest: 2208.764 msec (45274198 ops/sec) avg: 2202.611 msec (45400669 ops/sec) Output fields explained: - Threads: number of contending threads - iterations/thread: atomic operations each thread performs - repeats: number of test runs (first is warmup) - Avg wall-clock time: mean time for all threads to complete - stddev: standard deviation across repeats - Total ops: threads x iterations/thread - Throughput total: aggregate ops/sec across all threads - Per-thread times: fastest/slowest/avg thread completion time - Per-thread throughput: per-thread ops/sec (shows scheduling imbalance) Assisted-by: opencode:DeepSeek-V4-Pro Signed-off-by: Changbin Du --- Changes in v3: - Use native word size (unsigned long) for the shared counter instead of u64 to avoid libatomic on 32-bit targets. - Include explicitly for UINT64_MAX. Changes in v2: - Add an 'atomic inc' subcommand for contended __atomic_fetch_add. - Hoist the load out of the CAS retry loop; the failed __atomic_compare_exchange_n already returns the current value. - Cast the seconds delta to u64 before multiplying by NSEC_PER_SEC to avoid 32-bit overflow. --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt | 32 +++ tools/perf/bench/Build | 1 + tools/perf/bench/atomic.c | 268 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/bench/bench.h | 2 + tools/perf/builtin-bench.c | 9 + 5 files changed, 312 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/perf/bench/atomic.c diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt index c5913cf59c98..871c3aa5fc43 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ SUBSYSTEM 'numa':: NUMA scheduling and MM benchmarks. +'atomic':: + Atomic operation benchmarks. + 'futex':: Futex stressing benchmarks. @@ -283,6 +286,35 @@ SUITES FOR 'numa' *mem*:: Suite for evaluating NUMA workloads. +SUITES FOR 'atomic' +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +*cas*:: +Suite for evaluating compare-and-swap (CAS) atomic operations under +multi-threaded contention. + +*inc*:: +Suite for evaluating atomic fetch-add (increment) operations under +multi-threaded contention. + +Options of *cas* and *inc* +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +-t:: +--threads=:: +Number of threads contending for the shared counter (default: 2). + +-i:: +--iterations=:: +Number of iterations per thread (default: 100000000). + +The per-thread fastest/slowest/avg summary is only printed when +running with more than one thread. + +Note that the cas benchmark counts successful compare-and-swap +operations only; retries and the loads between them are additional +atomic instructions not included in the ops/sec count, so cas and +inc throughputs are not directly comparable at the instruction +level. + SUITES FOR 'futex' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *hash*:: diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/Build b/tools/perf/bench/Build index 67b76fe20ba6..c64c52468d3d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/bench/Build +++ b/tools/perf/bench/Build @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ perf-bench-y += sched-pipe.o perf-bench-y += sched-seccomp-notify.o perf-bench-y += syscall.o perf-bench-y += mem-functions.o +perf-bench-y += atomic.o perf-bench-y += futex.o perf-bench-y += futex-hash.o perf-bench-y += futex-wake.o diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/atomic.c b/tools/perf/bench/atomic.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a7e906cf2ec1 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/bench/atomic.c @@ -0,0 +1,268 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* + * Copyright (C) 2026 Changbin Du + * + * Benchmarks for atomic read-modify-write operations. + * + * Measures throughput (ops/sec) of contended atomic operations on a + * single shared counter across multiple threads. Each thread performs + * a hot loop of the selected operation -- compare-and-swap (cas) or + * fetch-add (inc) -- competing with all other threads for the same + * cache line. + */ +#include "bench.h" +#include +#include "../util/debug.h" + +#ifndef HAVE_PTHREAD_BARRIER +int bench_atomic_cas(int argc __maybe_unused, const char **argv __maybe_unused) +{ + pr_err("%s: pthread_barrier_t unavailable, disabling this test...\n", __func__); + return 0; +} + +int bench_atomic_inc(int argc __maybe_unused, const char **argv __maybe_unused) +{ + pr_err("%s: pthread_barrier_t unavailable, disabling this test...\n", __func__); + return 0; +} +#else /* HAVE_PTHREAD_BARRIER */ +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include "../util/stat.h" + +static unsigned int threads = 2; +static unsigned int iterations = 100000000; + +static const struct option options[] = { + OPT_UINTEGER('t', "threads", &threads, + "Number of threads contending for the counter"), + OPT_UINTEGER('i', "iterations", &iterations, + "Number of iterations per thread"), + OPT_END() +}; + +static const char * const cas_usage[] = { + "perf bench atomic cas ", + NULL +}; + +static const char * const inc_usage[] = { + "perf bench atomic inc ", + NULL +}; + +enum atomic_op { + OP_CAS, + OP_INC, +}; + +static int bench_op = OP_CAS; + +static unsigned long shared_counter __aligned(64); +static pthread_barrier_t start_barrier __aligned(64); + +struct worker_stats { + u64 runtime_ns; +}; + +static void *worker(void *arg) +{ + struct worker_stats *ws = (struct worker_stats *)arg; + struct timespec tstart, tend; + u64 i; + + pthread_barrier_wait(&start_barrier); + + clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &tstart); + switch (bench_op) { + case OP_CAS: + for (i = 0; i < iterations; i++) { + unsigned long old_val, new_val; + + old_val = __atomic_load_n(&shared_counter, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); + do { + new_val = old_val + 1; + } while (!__atomic_compare_exchange_n(&shared_counter, + &old_val, new_val, + false, + __ATOMIC_RELAXED, + __ATOMIC_RELAXED)); + } + break; + case OP_INC: + for (i = 0; i < iterations; i++) + __atomic_fetch_add(&shared_counter, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); + break; + default: + break; + } + clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &tend); + + ws->runtime_ns = (u64)(tend.tv_sec - tstart.tv_sec) * NSEC_PER_SEC + + (tend.tv_nsec - tstart.tv_nsec); + + return NULL; +} + +static void print_default_format(struct worker_stats *wstats, + struct stats *time_stats) +{ + double time_avg, time_stddev; + + printf(" Threads: %u, iterations/thread: %u, repeats: %u (warmup: 1)\n", + threads, iterations, bench_repeat); + + time_avg = avg_stats(time_stats); + time_stddev = stddev_stats(time_stats); + + printf(" Avg wall-clock time: %.3f msec (stddev %.3f msec)\n", + time_avg / (double)NSEC_PER_MSEC, + time_stddev / (double)NSEC_PER_MSEC); + printf(" Total ops: %'" PRIu64 "\n", + iterations * (u64)threads); + printf(" Throughput total: %'.0f ops/sec\n", + (double)(iterations * (u64)threads) / + (time_avg / (double)NSEC_PER_SEC)); + + /* + * Per-thread statistics from the last measured repeat show + * fairness / imbalance in CPU scheduling. + */ + if (threads > 1) { + u64 min_ns = UINT64_MAX, max_ns = 0, total_ns = 0; + double min_thru, max_thru, avg_thru; + + for (unsigned int t = 0; t < threads; t++) { + if (wstats[t].runtime_ns < min_ns) + min_ns = wstats[t].runtime_ns; + if (wstats[t].runtime_ns > max_ns) + max_ns = wstats[t].runtime_ns; + total_ns += wstats[t].runtime_ns; + } + + min_thru = (double)iterations * NSEC_PER_SEC / min_ns; + max_thru = (double)iterations * NSEC_PER_SEC / max_ns; + avg_thru = (double)threads * iterations * NSEC_PER_SEC / total_ns; + + printf(" Per-thread times and throughput (last repeat):\n"); + printf(" fastest: %.3f msec (%.0f ops/sec)\n", + min_ns / (double)NSEC_PER_MSEC, min_thru); + printf(" slowest: %.3f msec (%.0f ops/sec)\n", + max_ns / (double)NSEC_PER_MSEC, max_thru); + printf(" avg: %.3f msec (%.0f ops/sec)\n", + (total_ns / threads) / (double)NSEC_PER_MSEC, avg_thru); + } +} + +static int run_benchmark(void) +{ + pthread_t *thread_ids; + struct worker_stats *wstats; + struct stats time_stats; + unsigned int r, t; + + thread_ids = calloc(threads, sizeof(pthread_t)); + if (!thread_ids) + err(EXIT_FAILURE, "calloc"); + + wstats = calloc(threads, sizeof(struct worker_stats)); + if (!wstats) + err(EXIT_FAILURE, "calloc"); + + init_stats(&time_stats); + + for (r = 0; r < bench_repeat + 1; r++) { + u64 max_runtime_ns = 0; + + shared_counter = 0; + pthread_barrier_init(&start_barrier, NULL, threads); + + for (t = 0; t < threads; t++) { + if (pthread_create(&thread_ids[t], NULL, + worker, &wstats[t])) + err(EXIT_FAILURE, "pthread_create"); + } + + for (t = 0; t < threads; t++) + pthread_join(thread_ids[t], NULL); + + pthread_barrier_destroy(&start_barrier); + + for (t = 0; t < threads; t++) { + if (wstats[t].runtime_ns > max_runtime_ns) + max_runtime_ns = wstats[t].runtime_ns; + } + + /* + * Exclude the first repeat (warmup) from statistics so + * that cache-cold and lazy-init effects are not counted. + */ + if (r > 0) + update_stats(&time_stats, max_runtime_ns); + } + + switch (bench_format) { + case BENCH_FORMAT_DEFAULT: + print_default_format(wstats, &time_stats); + break; + + case BENCH_FORMAT_SIMPLE: + printf("%.0f\n", + (double)(iterations * (u64)threads) / + (avg_stats(&time_stats) / (double)NSEC_PER_SEC)); + break; + + default: + fprintf(stderr, "Unknown format: %d\n", bench_format); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + free(thread_ids); + free(wstats); + + return 0; +} + +static int run_atomic_bench(int argc, const char **argv, + const char * const *usage) +{ + if (parse_options(argc, argv, options, usage, 0)) { + usage_with_options(usage, options); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + if (threads < 1) { + fprintf(stderr, "Invalid thread count: %u\n", threads); + return 1; + } + + if (iterations < 1) { + fprintf(stderr, "Invalid iteration count: %u\n", iterations); + return 1; + } + + return run_benchmark(); +} + +int bench_atomic_cas(int argc, const char **argv) +{ + bench_op = OP_CAS; + return run_atomic_bench(argc, argv, cas_usage); +} + +int bench_atomic_inc(int argc, const char **argv) +{ + bench_op = OP_INC; + return run_atomic_bench(argc, argv, inc_usage); +} +#endif /* HAVE_PTHREAD_BARRIER */ diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h index 8519eb5a42fa..85e3ac471875 100644 --- a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h +++ b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ int bench_mem_memcpy(int argc, const char **argv); int bench_mem_memset(int argc, const char **argv); int bench_mem_mmap(int argc, const char **argv); int bench_mem_find_bit(int argc, const char **argv); +int bench_atomic_cas(int argc, const char **argv); +int bench_atomic_inc(int argc, const char **argv); int bench_futex_hash(int argc, const char **argv); int bench_futex_wake(int argc, const char **argv); int bench_futex_wake_parallel(int argc, const char **argv); diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c index 02d47913cc6a..62bebdedd3b8 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ * syscall ... System call performance * mem ... memory access performance * numa ... NUMA scheduling and MM performance + * atomic ... Atomic operation performance * futex ... Futex performance * epoll ... Event poll performance */ @@ -115,6 +116,13 @@ static const struct bench uprobe_benchmarks[] = { { NULL, NULL, NULL }, }; +static const struct bench atomic_benchmarks[] = { + { "cas", "Benchmark CAS (compare-and-swap) operations", bench_atomic_cas }, + { "inc", "Benchmark atomic fetch-add operations", bench_atomic_inc }, + { "all", "Run all atomic benchmarks", NULL }, + { NULL, NULL, NULL } +}; + struct collection { const char *name; const char *summary; @@ -128,6 +136,7 @@ static const struct collection collections[] = { #ifdef HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT { "numa", "NUMA scheduling and MM benchmarks", numa_benchmarks }, #endif + { "atomic", "Atomic operation benchmarks", atomic_benchmarks }, {"futex", "Futex stressing benchmarks", futex_benchmarks }, #ifdef HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT {"epoll", "Epoll stressing benchmarks", epoll_benchmarks }, -- 2.53.0