samples/bpf: add tracepoint vs kprobe performance tests

the first microbenchmark does
fd=open("/proc/self/comm");
for() {
  write(fd, "test");
}
and on 4 cpus in parallel:
                                      writes per sec
base (no tracepoints, no kprobes)         930k
with kprobe at __set_task_comm()          420k
with tracepoint at task:task_rename       730k

For kprobe + full bpf program manully fetches oldcomm, newcomm via bpf_probe_read.
For tracepint bpf program does nothing, since arguments are copied by tracepoint.

2nd microbenchmark does:
fd=open("/dev/urandom");
for() {
  read(fd, buf);
}
and on 4 cpus in parallel:
                                       reads per sec
base (no tracepoints, no kprobes)         300k
with kprobe at urandom_read()             279k
with tracepoint at random:urandom_read    290k

bpf progs attached to kprobe and tracepoint are noop.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/samples/bpf/Makefile b/samples/bpf/Makefile
index 502c9fc8db85..9959771bf808 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/samples/bpf/Makefile
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ hostprogs-y += lathist
 hostprogs-y += offwaketime
 hostprogs-y += spintest
 hostprogs-y += map_perf_test
+hostprogs-y += test_overhead
 
 test_verifier-objs := test_verifier.o libbpf.o
 test_maps-objs := test_maps.o libbpf.o
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ lathist-objs := bpf_load.o libbpf.o lathist_user.o
 offwaketime-objs := bpf_load.o libbpf.o offwaketime_user.o
 spintest-objs := bpf_load.o libbpf.o spintest_user.o
 map_perf_test-objs := bpf_load.o libbpf.o map_perf_test_user.o
+test_overhead-objs := bpf_load.o libbpf.o test_overhead_user.o
 
 # Tell kbuild to always build the programs
 always := $(hostprogs-y)
@@ -56,6 +58,8 @@ always += lathist_kern.o
 always += offwaketime_kern.o
 always += spintest_kern.o
 always += map_perf_test_kern.o
+always += test_overhead_tp_kern.o
+always += test_overhead_kprobe_kern.o
 
 HOSTCFLAGS += -I$(objtree)/usr/include
 
@@ -75,6 +79,7 @@ HOSTLOADLIBES_lathist += -lelf
 HOSTLOADLIBES_offwaketime += -lelf
 HOSTLOADLIBES_spintest += -lelf
 HOSTLOADLIBES_map_perf_test += -lelf -lrt
+HOSTLOADLIBES_test_overhead += -lelf -lrt
 
 # point this to your LLVM backend with bpf support
 LLC=$(srctree)/tools/bpf/llvm/bld/Debug+Asserts/bin/llc