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This is bplat, a memory latency benchmark that tries to improve on
lmbench's lat_mem_rd by not being predictable by stride predictors.

This benchmark is based on a program posted by Bernd Paysan in
comp.arch (see the file Postings for some postings about that), and I
just modified it and packaged it up for easy benchmarking.  I am not
sure that I got all the parameters right (especially the cs and cl
parameters to latency() in bplat.c), so take this as a first attempt.
Hopefully Bernd will pick it up and correct it if it is wrong.


DOWNLOAD, INSTALLATION and USAGE

Just type:

VERSION=0.1
wget http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/bplat/bplat-$VERSION.tar.gz
tar xvfz bplat-$VERSION.tar.gz
cd bplat-$VERSION
make

and you will get a list of working set sizes and the load-to-load
latency for these working sets, e.g.:

262144   8.8

which means that for a working set of 256KB, the program measured
8.8ns load-to-load latency.

You can adjust the MSPERTICK value if your OS has longer ticks than
10ms; e.g. with a 60HZ clock, you can use

make MSPERTICK=17

You can specify the working set sizes to measure through SIZES, e.g.:

make SIZES="33554432 67108864"

Note that apparently only powers of 2 work correctly at the moment.


DOWNLOAD

you can get bplat at

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/bplat/


LICENSE

This program is free software under BSD or MIT/X11 license.


- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl                    Some things have to be seen to be believed
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen
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