tree 0abc77668bc035fc278cab42371c21162a11a065
parent 4f75b52a07e0a0e71c1c81d0cb0ddf9c52c8e1bc
author Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> 1407317621 +0200
committer Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> 1408108034 +0200

test-coroutine: add baseline test that times the cost of function calls

This can be used to compute the cost of coroutine operations.  In the
end the cost of the function call is a few clock cycles, so it's pretty
cheap for now, but it may become more relevant as the coroutine code
is optimized.

For example, here are the results on my machine:

   Function call 100000000 iterations: 0.173884 s
   Yield 100000000 iterations: 8.445064 s
   Lifecycle 1000000 iterations: 0.098445 s
   Nesting 10000 iterations of 1000 depth each: 7.406431 s

One yield takes 83 nanoseconds, one enter takes 97 nanoseconds,
one coroutine allocation takes (roughly, since some of the allocations
in the nesting test do hit the pool) 739 nanoseconds:

   (8.445064 - 0.173884) * 10^9 / 100000000 = 82.7
   (0.098445 * 100 - 0.173884) * 10^9 / 100000000 = 96.7
   (7.406431 * 10 - 0.173884) * 10^9 / 100000000 = 738.9

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>