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-rw-r--r--doc/benchmarking.md27
-rw-r--r--src/bench/bench.h18
-rw-r--r--src/bench/bench_bitcoin.cpp8
3 files changed, 34 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/doc/benchmarking.md b/doc/benchmarking.md
index b6cd86eafe..84d5f2c444 100644
--- a/doc/benchmarking.md
+++ b/doc/benchmarking.md
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ thread queue, wallet balance.
Running
---------------------
-For benchmarks purposes you only need to compile `bitcoin_bench`. Beware of configuring without `--enable-debug` as this would impact
-benchmarking by unlatching log printers and lock analysis.
+For benchmarking, you only need to compile `bitcoin_bench`. The bench runner
+warns if you configure with `--enable-debug`, but consider if building without
+it will impact the benchmark(s) you are interested in by unlatching log printers
+and lock analysis.
make -C src bitcoin_bench
@@ -19,19 +21,28 @@ After compiling bitcoin-core, the benchmarks can be run with:
The output will look similar to:
```
-| ns/byte | byte/s | error % | benchmark
-|--------------------:|--------------------:|--------:|:----------------------------------------------
-| 64.13 | 15,592,356.01 | 0.1% | `Base58CheckEncode`
-| 24.56 | 40,722,672.68 | 0.2% | `Base58Decode`
+| ns/op | op/s | err% | total | benchmark
+|--------------------:|--------------------:|--------:|----------:|:----------
+| 57,927,463.00 | 17.26 | 3.6% | 0.66 | `AddrManAdd`
+| 677,816.00 | 1,475.33 | 4.9% | 0.01 | `AddrManGetAddr`
+
+...
+
+| ns/byte | byte/s | err% | total | benchmark
+|--------------------:|--------------------:|--------:|----------:|:----------
+| 127.32 | 7,854,302.69 | 0.3% | 0.00 | `Base58CheckEncode`
+| 31.95 | 31,303,226.99 | 0.2% | 0.00 | `Base58Decode`
+
...
```
Help
---------------------
- src/bench/bench_bitcoin --help
+ src/bench/bench_bitcoin -?
-To print options like scaling factor or per-benchmark filter.
+To print the various options, like listing the benchmarks without running them
+or using a regex filter to only run certain benchmarks.
Notes
---------------------
diff --git a/src/bench/bench.h b/src/bench/bench.h
index 22f06d8cb8..c4fcd80e33 100644
--- a/src/bench/bench.h
+++ b/src/bench/bench.h
@@ -18,16 +18,19 @@
/*
* Usage:
-static void CODE_TO_TIME(benchmark::Bench& bench)
+static void NameOfYourBenchmarkFunction(benchmark::Bench& bench)
{
- ... do any setup needed...
- nanobench::Config().run([&] {
- ... do stuff you want to time...
+ ...do any setup needed...
+
+ bench.run([&] {
+ ...do stuff you want to time; refer to src/bench/nanobench.h
+ for more information and the options that can be passed here...
});
- ... do any cleanup needed...
+
+ ...do any cleanup needed...
}
-BENCHMARK(CODE_TO_TIME);
+BENCHMARK(NameOfYourBenchmarkFunction);
*/
@@ -55,7 +58,8 @@ public:
static void RunAll(const Args& args);
};
-}
+} // namespace benchmark
+
// BENCHMARK(foo) expands to: benchmark::BenchRunner bench_11foo("foo", foo);
#define BENCHMARK(n) \
benchmark::BenchRunner PASTE2(bench_, PASTE2(__LINE__, n))(STRINGIZE(n), n);
diff --git a/src/bench/bench_bitcoin.cpp b/src/bench/bench_bitcoin.cpp
index 135659f87f..aab777cac1 100644
--- a/src/bench/bench_bitcoin.cpp
+++ b/src/bench/bench_bitcoin.cpp
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ static void SetupBenchArgs(ArgsManager& argsman)
{
SetupHelpOptions(argsman);
- argsman.AddArg("-list", "List benchmarks without executing them", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
+ argsman.AddArg("-asymptote=n1,n2,n3,...", "Test asymptotic growth of the runtime of an algorithm, if supported by the benchmark", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
argsman.AddArg("-filter=<regex>", strprintf("Regular expression filter to select benchmark by name (default: %s)", DEFAULT_BENCH_FILTER), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
- argsman.AddArg("-asymptote=n1,n2,n3,...", strprintf("Test asymptotic growth of the runtime of an algorithm, if supported by the benchmark"), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
- argsman.AddArg("-output_csv=<output.csv>", "Generate CSV file with the most important benchmark results.", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
- argsman.AddArg("-output_json=<output.json>", "Generate JSON file with all benchmark results.", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
+ argsman.AddArg("-list", "List benchmarks without executing them", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
+ argsman.AddArg("-output_csv=<output.csv>", "Generate CSV file with the most important benchmark results", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
+ argsman.AddArg("-output_json=<output.json>", "Generate JSON file with all benchmark results", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
}
// parses a comma separated list like "10,20,30,50"