about summary refs log tree commit diff
path: root/benchtests
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorWilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr@arm.com>2019-06-11 15:52:21 +0100
committerWilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr@arm.com>2019-06-11 15:52:21 +0100
commit80b2bfb5350442ef1a781b0ee9dd44d61bd88f8a (patch)
tree26b7514b56164261c5cf4870602ae06ab79cea42 /benchtests
parente6e24243905957c36596f50a22af0acfd83793e2 (diff)
downloadglibc-80b2bfb5350442ef1a781b0ee9dd44d61bd88f8a.tar.gz
glibc-80b2bfb5350442ef1a781b0ee9dd44d61bd88f8a.tar.xz
glibc-80b2bfb5350442ef1a781b0ee9dd44d61bd88f8a.zip
Benchmark strstr hard needles
Benchmark needles which exhibit worst-case performance.  This shows that
basic_strstr is quadratic and thus unsuitable for large needles.
On the other hand the Two-way and new strstr implementations are linear with
increasing needle sizes.  The slowest cases of the two implementations are
within a factor of 2 on several different microarchitectures.  Two-way is
slowest on inputs which cause a branch mispredict on almost every character.
The new strstr is slowest on inputs which almost match and result in many
calls to memcmp.  Thanks to Szabolcs for providing various hard needles.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

	* benchtests/bench-strstr.c (test_hard_needle): New function.
Diffstat (limited to 'benchtests')
-rw-r--r--benchtests/bench-strstr.c79
1 files changed, 79 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/benchtests/bench-strstr.c b/benchtests/bench-strstr.c
index b4cd141083..2cbe13e9ac 100644
--- a/benchtests/bench-strstr.c
+++ b/benchtests/bench-strstr.c
@@ -203,6 +203,81 @@ do_test (size_t align1, size_t align2, size_t len1, size_t len2,
   putchar ('\n');
 }
 
+/* Test needles which exhibit worst-case performance.  This shows that
+   basic_strstr is quadratic and thus unsuitable for large needles.
+   On the other hand Two-way and skip table implementations are linear with
+   increasing needle sizes.  The slowest cases of the two implementations are
+   within a factor of 2 on several different microarchitectures.  */
+
+static void
+test_hard_needle (size_t ne_len, size_t hs_len)
+{
+  char *ne = (char *) buf1;
+  char *hs = (char *) buf2;
+
+  /* Hard needle for strstr algorithm using skip table.  This results in many
+     memcmp calls comparing most of the needle.  */
+  {
+    memset (ne, 'a', ne_len);
+    ne[ne_len] = '\0';
+    ne[ne_len - 14] = 'b';
+
+    memset (hs, 'a', hs_len);
+    for (size_t i = ne_len; i <= hs_len; i += ne_len)
+      {
+	hs[i-5] = 'b';
+	hs[i-62] = 'b';
+      }
+
+    printf ("Length %4zd/%3zd, complex needle 1:", hs_len, ne_len);
+
+    FOR_EACH_IMPL (impl, 0)
+      do_one_test (impl, hs, ne, NULL);
+    putchar ('\n');
+  }
+
+  /* 2nd hard needle for strstr algorithm using skip table.  This results in
+     many memcmp calls comparing most of the needle.  */
+  {
+    memset (ne, 'a', ne_len);
+    ne[ne_len] = '\0';
+    ne[ne_len - 6] = 'b';
+
+    memset (hs, 'a', hs_len);
+    for (size_t i = ne_len; i <= hs_len; i += ne_len)
+      {
+	hs[i-5] = 'b';
+	hs[i-6] = 'b';
+      }
+
+    printf ("Length %4zd/%3zd, complex needle 2:", hs_len, ne_len);
+
+    FOR_EACH_IMPL (impl, 0)
+      do_one_test (impl, hs, ne, NULL);
+    putchar ('\n');
+  }
+
+  /* Hard needle for Two-way algorithm - the random input causes a large number
+     of branch mispredictions which significantly reduces performance on modern
+     micro architectures.  */
+  {
+    for (int i = 0; i < hs_len; i++)
+      hs[i] = (rand () & 255) > 155 ? 'a' : 'b';
+    hs[hs_len] = 0;
+
+    memset (ne, 'a', ne_len);
+    ne[ne_len-2] = 'b';
+    ne[0] = 'b';
+    ne[ne_len] = 0;
+
+    printf ("Length %4zd/%3zd, complex needle 3:", hs_len, ne_len);
+
+    FOR_EACH_IMPL (impl, 0)
+      do_one_test (impl, hs, ne, NULL);
+    putchar ('\n');
+  }
+}
+
 static int
 test_main (void)
 {
@@ -227,6 +302,10 @@ test_main (void)
 	do_test (14, 5, hlen, klen, 1);
       }
 
+  test_hard_needle (64, 65536);
+  test_hard_needle (256, 65536);
+  test_hard_needle (1024, 65536);
+
   return ret;
 }