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test/perf: Simplify calculation of "omit" time for TCP throughput

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For the TCP throughput tests, we use iperf3's -O "omit" option which
ignores results for the given time at the beginning of the test.  Currently
we calculate this as 1/6th of the test measurement time.  The purpose of
-O, however, is to skip over the TCP slow start period, which in no way
depends on the overall length of the test.

The slow start time is roughly speaking
    log_2 ( max_window_size / MSS ) * round_trip_time
These factors all vary between tests and machines we're running on, but we
can estimate some reasonable bounds for them:
  * The maximum window size is bounded by the buffer sizes at each end,
    which shouldn't exceed 16MiB
  * The mss varies with the MTU we use, but the smallest we use in tests is
    ~256 bytes
  * Round trip time will vary with the system, but with these essentially
    local transfers it will typically be well under 1ms (on my laptop it is
    closer to 0.03ms)

That gives a worst case slow start time of about 16ms.  Setting an omit
time of 0.1s uniformly is therefore more than enough, and substantially
smaller than what we calculate now for the default case (10s / 6 ~= 1.7s).

This reduces total time for the standard benchmark run by around 30s.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
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David Gibson 2023-11-06 18:08:33 +11:00 committed by Stefano Brivio
parent aa0bb9f471
commit 53ff387156
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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test/perf/passt_tcp
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@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ hout FREQ [ -n "__FREQ_CPUFREQ__" ] && echo __FREQ_CPUFREQ__ || echo __FREQ_PROC
set THREADS 1 set THREADS 1
set STREAMS 8 set STREAMS 8
set TIME 10 set TIME 10
hout OMIT echo __TIME__ / 6 | bc -l set OMIT 0.1
set OPTS -Z -P __STREAMS__ -l 1M -O__OMIT__ set OPTS -Z -P __STREAMS__ -l 1M -O__OMIT__
info Throughput in Gbps, latency in µs, one thread at __FREQ__ GHz, __STREAMS__ streams info Throughput in Gbps, latency in µs, one thread at __FREQ__ GHz, __STREAMS__ streams

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test/perf/pasta_tcp
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@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ns /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0
set THREADS 2 set THREADS 2
set STREAMS 2 set STREAMS 2
set TIME 10 set TIME 10
hout OMIT echo __TIME__ / 6 | bc -l set OMIT 0.1
set OPTS -Z -w 4M -l 1M -P __STREAMS__ -O__OMIT__ set OPTS -Z -w 4M -l 1M -P __STREAMS__ -O__OMIT__
hout FREQ_PROCFS (echo "scale=1"; sed -n 's/cpu MHz.*: \([0-9]*\)\..*$/(\1+10^2\/2)\/10^3/p' /proc/cpuinfo) | bc -l | head -n1 hout FREQ_PROCFS (echo "scale=1"; sed -n 's/cpu MHz.*: \([0-9]*\)\..*$/(\1+10^2\/2)\/10^3/p' /proc/cpuinfo) | bc -l | head -n1