* Introduce Coefficient of variation aggregate
I believe, it is much more useful / use to understand,
because it is already normalized by the mean,
so it is not affected by the duration of the benchmark,
unlike the standard deviation.
Example of real-world output:
```
raw.pixls.us-unique/GoPro/HERO6 Black$ ~/rawspeed/build-old/src/utilities/rsbench/rsbench GOPR9172.GPR --benchmark_repetitions=27 --benchmark_display_aggregates_only=true --benchmark_counters_tabular=true
2021-09-03T18:05:56+03:00
Running /home/lebedevri/rawspeed/build-old/src/utilities/rsbench/rsbench
Run on (32 X 3596.16 MHz CPU s)
CPU Caches:
L1 Data 32 KiB (x16)
L1 Instruction 32 KiB (x16)
L2 Unified 512 KiB (x16)
L3 Unified 32768 KiB (x2)
Load Average: 7.00, 2.99, 1.85
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations CPUTime,s CPUTime/WallTime Pixels Pixels/CPUTime Pixels/WallTime Raws/CPUTime Raws/WallTime WallTime,s
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GOPR9172.GPR/threads:32/process_time/real_time_mean 11.1 ms 353 ms 27 0.353122 31.9473 12M 33.9879M 1085.84M 2.83232 90.4864 0.0110535
GOPR9172.GPR/threads:32/process_time/real_time_median 11.0 ms 352 ms 27 0.351696 31.9599 12M 34.1203M 1090.11M 2.84336 90.8425 0.0110081
GOPR9172.GPR/threads:32/process_time/real_time_stddev 0.159 ms 4.60 ms 27 4.59539m 0.0462064 0 426.371k 14.9631M 0.0355309 1.24692 158.944u
GOPR9172.GPR/threads:32/process_time/real_time_cv 1.44 % 1.30 % 27 0.0130136 1.44633m 0 0.0125448 0.0137802 0.0125448 0.0137802 0.0143795
```
Fixes https://github.com/google/benchmark/issues/1146
* Be consistent, it's CV, not 'rel std dev'
* Statistics: add support for percentage unit in addition to time
I think, `stddev` statistic is useful, but confusing.
What does it mean if `stddev` of `1ms` is reported?
Is that good or bad? If the `median` is `1s`,
then that means that the measurements are pretty noise-less.
And what about `stddev` of `100ms` is reported?
If the `median` is `1s` - awful, if the `median` is `10s` - good.
And hurray, there is just the statistic that we need:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_variation
But, naturally, that produces a value in percents,
but the statistics are currently hardcoded to produce time.
So this refactors thinkgs a bit, and allows a percentage unit for statistics.
I'm not sure whether or not `benchmark` would be okay
with adding this `RSD` statistic by default,
but regales, that is a separate patch.
Refs. https://github.com/google/benchmark/issues/1146
* Address review notes
Refactoring in 201b981a moved most of the documentation from `README.md` to `docs/user_guide.md`. Some links from `README.md` to other `docs/*.md` files ended up unchanged in `docs/user_guide.md`. Those links were now broken as they did not link from outside the `docs` directory anymore, but from inside it. Removing the leading `docs/` for these links fixes this.
Inspired by the original implementation by Hai Huang @haih-g
from https://github.com/google/benchmark/pull/1105.
The original implementation had design deficiencies that
weren't really addressable without redesign, so it was reverted.
In essence, the original implementation consisted of two separateable parts:
* reducing the amount time each repetition is run for, and symmetrically increasing repetition count
* running the repetitions in random order
While it worked fine for the usual case, it broke down when user would specify repetitions
(it would completely ignore that request), or specified per-repetition min time (while it would
still adjust the repetition count, it would not adjust the per-repetition time,
leading to much greater run times)
Here, like i was originally suggesting in the original review, i'm separating the features,
and only dealing with a single one - running repetitions in random order.
Now that the runs/repetitions are no longer in-order, the tooling may wish to sort the output,
and indeed `compare.py` has been updated to do that: #1168.
* cmake: fix handling the case where `git describe` fails
* cmake: fix version recorded in releases
If downloaded as a tarball release, there will be no info from git
to determine the release, so it ends up v0.0.0. If that's the case,
we'll now use the release specified in the project() command,
which needs to be updated for each new release.
* cmake: add `--tags` to `git describe`
That way, lightweight tags will also be taken into account, which should
never hurt, but it'll help in cases where, for some mysterious reason or
other, annotated tags don't make it into a clone.
* update releasing.md
* Implementation of random interleaving. See
http://github.com/google/benchmark/issues/1051 for the feature requests.
Committer: Hai Huang (http://github.com/haih-g)
On branch fr-1051
Changes to be committed:
modified: include/benchmark/benchmark.h
modified: src/benchmark.cc
new file: src/benchmark_adjust_repetitions.cc
new file: src/benchmark_adjust_repetitions.h
modified: src/benchmark_api_internal.cc
modified: src/benchmark_api_internal.h
modified: src/benchmark_register.cc
modified: src/benchmark_runner.cc
modified: src/benchmark_runner.h
modified: test/CMakeLists.txt
new file: test/benchmark_random_interleaving_gtest.cc
* Fix benchmark_random_interleaving_gtest.cc for fr-1051
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* Fix macos build for fr-1051
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* Fix macos and windows build for fr-1051.
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* Address dominichamon's comments 03/29 for fr-1051
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* Address dominichamon's comment on default min_time / repetitions for fr-1051.
Also change sentinel of random_interleaving_repetitions to -1. Hopefully it
fixes the failures on Windows.
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* Fix windows test failures for fr-1051
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* Add license blurb for fr-1051.
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* Switch to std::shuffle() for fr-1105.
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* Change to 1e-9 in fr-1105
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* Fix broken build caused by bad merge for fr-1105.
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* Print out reports as they come in if random interleaving is disabled (fr-1051)
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* benchmar_indices --> size_t to make CI pass: fr-1051
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* Support optional, user-directed collection of performance counters
The patch allows an engineer wishing to drill into the root causes
of a regression, for example. Currently, only single threaded runs
are supported. The feature is a build-time opt in, and then a runtime
opt in.
The engineer may run the benchmark executable, passing a list of
performance counter names (using libpfm's naming scheme) at the
command line. The counter values will then be collected and reported
back as UserCounters.
This is different from #240 in that it is a benchmark user opt-in, and
the counter collection is transparent to the benchmark.
Currently, this is only supported on platforms where libpfm is
supported.
libpfm: http://perfmon2.sourceforge.net/
* 'Use' values param in Snapshot when BENCHMARK_OS_WINDOWS
This is to avoid unused parameter warning-as-error
* Added missing include for <vector> in perf_counters.cc
* Moved doc to docs
* Added license blurbs
* add requirements.txt for python tools
* adds documentation for requirements.txt
Adds installation instructions for python dependencies using pip and requirements.txt
* Add tests to verify assembler output -- Fix DoNotOptimize.
For things like `DoNotOptimize`, `ClobberMemory`, and even `KeepRunning()`,
it is important exactly what assembly they generate. However, we currently
have no way to test this. Instead it must be manually validated every
time a change occurs -- including a change in compiler version.
This patch attempts to introduce a way to test the assembled output automatically.
It's mirrors how LLVM verifies compiler output, and it uses LLVM FileCheck to run
the tests in a similar way.
The tests function by generating the assembly for a test in CMake, and then
using FileCheck to verify the // CHECK lines in the source file are found
in the generated assembly.
Currently, the tests only run on 64-bit x86 systems under GCC and Clang,
and when FileCheck is found on the system.
Additionally, this patch tries to improve the code gen from DoNotOptimize.
This should probably be a separate change, but I needed something to test.
* Disable assembly tests on Bazel for now
* Link FIXME to github issue
* Fix Tests on OS X
* fix strip_asm.py to work on both Linux and OS X like targets
* [Tools] A new, more versatile benchmark output compare tool
Sometimes, there is more than one implementation of some functionality.
And the obvious use-case is to benchmark them, which is better?
Currently, there is no easy way to compare the benchmarking results
in that case:
The obvious solution is to have multiple binaries, each one
containing/running one implementation. And each binary must use
exactly the same benchmark family name, which is super bad,
because now the binary name should contain all the info about
benchmark family...
What if i tell you that is not the solution?
What if we could avoid producing one binary per benchmark family,
with the same family name used in each binary,
but instead could keep all the related families in one binary,
with their proper names, AND still be able to compare them?
There are three modes of operation:
1. Just compare two benchmarks, what `compare_bench.py` did:
```
$ ../tools/compare.py benchmarks ./a.out ./a.out
RUNNING: ./a.out --benchmark_out=/tmp/tmprBT5nW
Run on (8 X 4000 MHz CPU s)
2017-11-07 21:16:44
------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
------------------------------------------------------
BM_memcpy/8 36 ns 36 ns 19101577 211.669MB/s
BM_memcpy/64 76 ns 76 ns 9412571 800.199MB/s
BM_memcpy/512 84 ns 84 ns 8249070 5.64771GB/s
BM_memcpy/1024 116 ns 116 ns 6181763 8.19505GB/s
BM_memcpy/8192 643 ns 643 ns 1062855 11.8636GB/s
BM_copy/8 222 ns 222 ns 3137987 34.3772MB/s
BM_copy/64 1608 ns 1608 ns 432758 37.9501MB/s
BM_copy/512 12589 ns 12589 ns 54806 38.7867MB/s
BM_copy/1024 25169 ns 25169 ns 27713 38.8003MB/s
BM_copy/8192 201165 ns 201112 ns 3486 38.8466MB/s
RUNNING: ./a.out --benchmark_out=/tmp/tmpt1wwG_
Run on (8 X 4000 MHz CPU s)
2017-11-07 21:16:53
------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
------------------------------------------------------
BM_memcpy/8 36 ns 36 ns 19397903 211.255MB/s
BM_memcpy/64 73 ns 73 ns 9691174 839.635MB/s
BM_memcpy/512 85 ns 85 ns 8312329 5.60101GB/s
BM_memcpy/1024 118 ns 118 ns 6438774 8.11608GB/s
BM_memcpy/8192 656 ns 656 ns 1068644 11.6277GB/s
BM_copy/8 223 ns 223 ns 3146977 34.2338MB/s
BM_copy/64 1611 ns 1611 ns 435340 37.8751MB/s
BM_copy/512 12622 ns 12622 ns 54818 38.6844MB/s
BM_copy/1024 25257 ns 25239 ns 27779 38.6927MB/s
BM_copy/8192 205013 ns 205010 ns 3479 38.108MB/s
Comparing ./a.out to ./a.out
Benchmark Time CPU Time Old Time New CPU Old CPU New
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BM_memcpy/8 +0.0020 +0.0020 36 36 36 36
BM_memcpy/64 -0.0468 -0.0470 76 73 76 73
BM_memcpy/512 +0.0081 +0.0083 84 85 84 85
BM_memcpy/1024 +0.0098 +0.0097 116 118 116 118
BM_memcpy/8192 +0.0200 +0.0203 643 656 643 656
BM_copy/8 +0.0046 +0.0042 222 223 222 223
BM_copy/64 +0.0020 +0.0020 1608 1611 1608 1611
BM_copy/512 +0.0027 +0.0026 12589 12622 12589 12622
BM_copy/1024 +0.0035 +0.0028 25169 25257 25169 25239
BM_copy/8192 +0.0191 +0.0194 201165 205013 201112 205010
```
2. Compare two different filters of one benchmark:
(for simplicity, the benchmark is executed twice)
```
$ ../tools/compare.py filters ./a.out BM_memcpy BM_copy
RUNNING: ./a.out --benchmark_filter=BM_memcpy --benchmark_out=/tmp/tmpBWKk0k
Run on (8 X 4000 MHz CPU s)
2017-11-07 21:37:28
------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
------------------------------------------------------
BM_memcpy/8 36 ns 36 ns 17891491 211.215MB/s
BM_memcpy/64 74 ns 74 ns 9400999 825.646MB/s
BM_memcpy/512 87 ns 87 ns 8027453 5.46126GB/s
BM_memcpy/1024 111 ns 111 ns 6116853 8.5648GB/s
BM_memcpy/8192 657 ns 656 ns 1064679 11.6247GB/s
RUNNING: ./a.out --benchmark_filter=BM_copy --benchmark_out=/tmp/tmpAvWcOM
Run on (8 X 4000 MHz CPU s)
2017-11-07 21:37:33
----------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
----------------------------------------------------
BM_copy/8 227 ns 227 ns 3038700 33.6264MB/s
BM_copy/64 1640 ns 1640 ns 426893 37.2154MB/s
BM_copy/512 12804 ns 12801 ns 55417 38.1444MB/s
BM_copy/1024 25409 ns 25407 ns 27516 38.4365MB/s
BM_copy/8192 202986 ns 202990 ns 3454 38.4871MB/s
Comparing BM_memcpy to BM_copy (from ./a.out)
Benchmark Time CPU Time Old Time New CPU Old CPU New
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/8 +5.2829 +5.2812 36 227 36 227
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/64 +21.1719 +21.1856 74 1640 74 1640
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/512 +145.6487 +145.6097 87 12804 87 12801
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/1024 +227.1860 +227.1776 111 25409 111 25407
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/8192 +308.1664 +308.2898 657 202986 656 202990
```
3. Compare filter one from benchmark one to filter two from benchmark two:
(for simplicity, the benchmark is executed twice)
```
$ ../tools/compare.py benchmarksfiltered ./a.out BM_memcpy ./a.out BM_copy
RUNNING: ./a.out --benchmark_filter=BM_memcpy --benchmark_out=/tmp/tmp_FvbYg
Run on (8 X 4000 MHz CPU s)
2017-11-07 21:38:27
------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
------------------------------------------------------
BM_memcpy/8 37 ns 37 ns 18953482 204.118MB/s
BM_memcpy/64 74 ns 74 ns 9206578 828.245MB/s
BM_memcpy/512 91 ns 91 ns 8086195 5.25476GB/s
BM_memcpy/1024 120 ns 120 ns 5804513 7.95662GB/s
BM_memcpy/8192 664 ns 664 ns 1028363 11.4948GB/s
RUNNING: ./a.out --benchmark_filter=BM_copy --benchmark_out=/tmp/tmpDfL5iE
Run on (8 X 4000 MHz CPU s)
2017-11-07 21:38:32
----------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
----------------------------------------------------
BM_copy/8 230 ns 230 ns 2985909 33.1161MB/s
BM_copy/64 1654 ns 1653 ns 419408 36.9137MB/s
BM_copy/512 13122 ns 13120 ns 53403 37.2156MB/s
BM_copy/1024 26679 ns 26666 ns 26575 36.6218MB/s
BM_copy/8192 215068 ns 215053 ns 3221 36.3283MB/s
Comparing BM_memcpy (from ./a.out) to BM_copy (from ./a.out)
Benchmark Time CPU Time Old Time New CPU Old CPU New
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/8 +5.1649 +5.1637 37 230 37 230
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/64 +21.4352 +21.4374 74 1654 74 1653
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/512 +143.6022 +143.5865 91 13122 91 13120
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/1024 +221.5903 +221.4790 120 26679 120 26666
[BM_memcpy vs. BM_copy]/8192 +322.9059 +323.0096 664 215068 664 215053
```
* [Docs] Document tools/compare.py
* [docs] Document how the change is calculated
