The perf suite's aggregate.perl depends on Git.pm, which is a mild
annoyance if you've built git with NO_PERL. It turns out that the only
thing we use it for is a single call of the command_oneline() helper.
We can just replace this with backticks or similar.
Annoyingly, perl has no backtick equivalent that avoids a shell eval,
which means our $arg would require quoting. This probably doesn't matter
for our purposes, but it's better to be safe and model good style. So
we'll just provide a short helper around open(), which takes its
arguments as a list.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The perf tests write files recording the results of tests. These
results are later aggregated by 'aggregate.perl'. If the tests are run
multiple times, those results are overwritten by the new results. This
works just fine as long as there are only perf tests measuring the
times, whose results are stored in "$base".times files.
However 22bec79d1a ("t/perf: add infrastructure for measuring sizes",
2018-08-17) introduced a new type of test for measuring the size of
something. The results of this are written to "$base".size files.
"$base" is essentially made up of the basename of the script plus the
test number. So if test numbers shift because a new test was
introduced earlier in the script we might end up with both a ".times"
and a ".size" file for the same test. In the aggregation script the
".times" file is preferred over the ".size" file, so some size tests
might end with performance numbers from a previous run of the test.
This is mainly relevant when writing perf tests that check both
performance and sizes, and can get quite confusing during
developement.
We could fix this by doing a more thorough job of cleaning out old
".times" and ".size" files before running each test. However, an even
easier solution is to just use the same filename for both types of
measurement, meaning we'll always overwrite the previous result. We
don't even need to change the file format to distinguish the two;
aggregate.perl already decides which is which based on a regex of the
content (this may become ambiguous if we add new types in the future,
but we could easily add a header field to the file at that point).
Based on an initial patch from Thomas Gummerer, who discovered the
problem and did all of the analysis (which I stole for the commit
message above):
https://public-inbox.org/git/20191119185047.8550-1-t.gummerer@gmail.com/
Helped-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Performance test framework has been broken and measured the version
of Git that happens to be on $PATH, not the specified one to
measure, for a while, which has been corrected.
* ab/perf-installed-fix:
perf-lib.sh: forbid the use of GIT_TEST_INSTALLED
perf tests: add "bindir" prefix to git tree test results
perf-lib.sh: remove GIT_TEST_INSTALLED from perf-lib.sh
perf-lib.sh: make "./run <revisions>" use the correct gits
perf aggregate: remove GIT_TEST_INSTALLED from --codespeed
perf README: correct docs for 3c8f12c96c regression
Change the output file names in test-results/ to be
"test-results/bindir_<munged dir>" rather than just
"test-results/<munged dir>".
This is for consistency with the "build_" directories we have for
built revisions, i.e. "test-results/build_<SHA-1>".
There's no user-visible functional changes here, it just makes it
easier to see at a glance what "test-results" files are of what "type"
as they're all explicitly grouped together now, and to grep this code
to find both the run_dirs_helper() implementation and its
corresponding aggregate.perl code.
Note that we already guarantee that the rest of the
PERF_RESULTS_PREFIX is an absolute path, and since it'll start with
e.g. "/" which we munge to "_" we'll up with a readable string like
"bindir_home_avar[...]".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Follow-up my preceding change which fixed the immediate "./run
<revisions>" regression in 0baf78e7bc ("perf-lib.sh: rely on
test-lib.sh for --tee handling", 2019-03-15) and entirely get rid of
GIT_TEST_INSTALLED from perf-lib.sh (and aggregate.perl).
As noted in that change the dance we're doing with GIT_TEST_INSTALLED
perf-lib.sh isn't necessary, but there I was doing the most minimal
set of changes to quickly fix a regression.
But it's much simpler to never deal with the "GIT_TEST_INSTALLED" we
were setting in perf-lib.sh at all. Instead the run_dirs_helper() sets
the previously inferred $PERF_RESULTS_PREFIX directly.
Setting this at the callsite that's already best positioned to
exhaustively know about all the different cases we need to handle
where PERF_RESULTS_PREFIX isn't what we want already (the empty
string) makes the most sense. In one-off cases like:
./run ./p0000-perf-lib-sanity.sh
./p0000-perf-lib-sanity.sh
We'll just do the right thing because PERF_RESULTS_PREFIX will be
empty, and test-lib.sh takes care of finding where our git is.
Any refactoring of this code needs to change both the shell code and
the Perl code in aggregate.perl, because when running e.g.:
./run ../../ -- <test>
The "../../" path to a relative bindir needs to be munged to a
filename containing the results, and critically aggregate.perl does
not get passed the path to those aggregations, just "../..".
Let's fix cases where aggregate.perl would print e.g. ".." in its
report output for this, and "git" for "/home/avar/g/git", i.e. it
would always pick the last element. Now'll always print the full path
instead.
This also makes the code sturdier, e.g. you can feed "../.." to
"./run" and then an absolute path to the aggregate.perl script, as
long as the absolute path and "../.." resolved to the same directory
printing the aggregation will work.
Also simplify the "[_*]" on the RHS of "tr -c", we're trimming
everything to "_", so we don't need that.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Remove the setting of the "environment" from the --codespeed output. I
don't think this is useful, and it helps with a later refactoring
where we GIT_TEST_INSTALLED stop munging/reading GIT_TEST_INSTALLED in
the perf tests in so many places.
This was added in 05eb1c37ed ("perf/aggregate: implement codespeed
JSON output", 2018-01-05), but since the "run" scripts uses
"GIT_TEST_INSTALLED" internally this was only ever useful for one-off
runs of a single revision as all the "environment" values would be
ones for whatever directory the "run" script ran last.
Let's instead fall back on the "uname -r" case, which is the sort of
thing the environment should be set to, not something that duplicates
other parts of the codpseed output. For setting the "environment" to
something custom the perf.repoName variable can be used. See
19cf57a92e ("perf/run: read GIT_PERF_REPO_NAME from perf.repoName",
2018-01-05).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Commit 05eb1c37ed (perf/aggregate: implement codespeed JSON output,
2018-01-05) added a dependency on the perl JSON module to show output
from aggregate.perl, but we only need it when the user asks for
--codespeed output. While the module is pretty common, it's not part of
the base system, and this dependency can get in the way of producing the
default human-readable output.
Let's bump the "use" down to a "require" in the code path that needs it,
which will be interpreted at run-time instead of compile-time. People
not using "--codespeed" won't even load the module, and anybody using it
should see the same results (including the same perl error if they don't
have it).
Note that this skips the importing step, so we'll have to fully qualify
our function call. We could accomplish the same thing in other ways.
E.g., calling JSON->import() ourselves, or wrapping "use JSON" in an
eval. Since there's only one such call, this seems like the
least-magical way of doing it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The main objective of scripts in the perf framework is to
run "test_perf", which measures the time it takes to run
some operation. However, it can also be interesting to see
the change in the output size of certain operations.
This patch introduces test_size, which records a single
numeric output from the test and shows it in the aggregated
output (with pretty printing and relative size comparison).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This will let us reuse the code when we add new values to
aggregate besides times.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When passing an option '--foo' that it does not recognize, the
aggregate.perl script should die with an helpful error message
like:
Unknown option: foo
./aggregate.perl [options] [--] [<dir_or_rev>...] [--] \
[<test_script>...] >
Options:
--codespeed * Format output for Codespeed
--reponame <str> * Send given reponame to codespeed
--sort-by <str> * Sort output (only "regression" \
criteria is supported)
rather than:
fatal: Needed a single revision
rev-parse --verify --foo: command returned error: 128
To implement that let's use Getopt::Long for option parsing
instead of the current manual and sloppy parsing. This should
save some code and make option parsing simpler, tighter and
safer.
This will avoid something like 'foo--sort-by=regression' to
be handled as if '--sort-by=regression' had been used, for
example.
As Getopt::Long eats '--' at the end of options, this changes
a bit the way '--' is handled as we can now have '--' both
after the options and before the scripts.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the most interesting thing one can be interested in when
looking at performance test results is possible performance
regressions.
This new option makes it easy to spot such possible regressions.
This new option is named '--sort-by=regression' to make it
possible and easy to add other ways to sort the results, like for
example '--sort-by=utime'.
If we would like to sort according to how much the stime regressed
we could also add a new option called '--sort-by=regression:stime'.
Then '--sort-by=regression' could become a synonym for
'--sort-by=regression:rtime'.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new helper function will be reused in a subsequent
commit.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by
weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker.
* ab/simplify-perl-makefile:
perl: treat PERLLIB_EXTRA as an extra path again
perl: avoid *.pmc and fix Error.pm further
Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules
It is much easier to diff the output against a previous
one when the fields are sorted.
Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes it easier to use the aggregate script
on the command line when one wants to get the
"environment" fields set in the codespeed output.
Previously setting GIT_REPO_NAME was needed
for this purpose.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes it easier to use the aggregate script
on the command line, to get results from
subsections.
Previously setting GIT_PERF_SUBSECTION was needed
for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Codespeed (https://github.com/tobami/codespeed/) is an open source
project that can be used to track how some software performs over
time. It stores performance test results in a database and can show
nice graphs and charts on a web interface.
As it can be interesting to use Codespeed to see how Git performance
evolves over time and releases, let's implement a Codespeed output
in "perf/aggregate.perl".
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we want to implement another kind of output than
the current output for the perf test results, let's
refactor the existing code that outputs the results
in its own print_default_results() function.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The way we check ENV{GIT_PERF_SUBSECTION} could trigger
comparison between undef and "" that may be flagged by
use of strict & warnings. Let's fix that.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace the perl/Makefile.PL and the fallback perl/Makefile used under
NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=NoThanks with a much simpler implementation heavily
inspired by how the i18n infrastructure's build process works[1].
The reason for having the Makefile.PL in the first place is that it
was initially[2] building a perl C binding to interface with libgit,
this functionality, that was removed[3] before Git.pm ever made it to
the master branch.
We've since since started maintaining a fallback perl/Makefile, as
MakeMaker wouldn't work on some platforms[4]. That's just the tip of
the iceberg. We have the PM.stamp hack in the top-level Makefile[5] to
detect whether we need to regenerate the perl/perl.mak, which I fixed
just recently to deal with issues like the perl version changing from
under us[6].
There is absolutely no reason for why this needs to be so complex
anymore. All we're getting out of this elaborate Rube Goldberg machine
was copying perl/* to perl/blib/* as we do a string-replacement on
the *.pm files to hardcode @@LOCALEDIR@@ in the source, as well as
pod2man-ing Git.pm & friends.
So replace the whole thing with something that's pretty much a copy of
how we generate po/build/**.mo from po/*.po, just with a small sed(1)
command instead of msgfmt. As that's being done rename the files
from *.pm to *.pmc just to indicate that they're generated (see
"perldoc -f require").
While I'm at it, change the fallback for Error.pm from being something
where we'll ship our own Error.pm if one doesn't exist at build time
to one where we just use a Git::Error wrapper that'll always prefer
the system-wide Error.pm, only falling back to our own copy if it
really doesn't exist at runtime. It's now shipped as
Git::FromCPAN::Error, making it easy to add other modules to
Git::FromCPAN::* in the future if that's needed.
Functional changes:
* This will not always install into perl's idea of its global
"installsitelib". This only potentially matters for packagers that
need to expose Git.pm for non-git use, and as explained in the
INSTALL file there's a trivial workaround.
* The scripts themselves will 'use lib' the target directory, but if
INSTLIBDIR is set it overrides it. It doesn't have to be this way,
it could be set in addition to INSTLIBDIR, but my reading of [7] is
that this is the desired behavior.
* We don't build man pages for all of the perl modules as we used to,
only Git(3pm). As discussed on-list[8] that we were building
installed manpages for purely internal APIs like Git::I18N or
private-Error.pm was always a bug anyway, and all the Git::SVN::*
ones say they're internal APIs.
There are apparently external users of Git.pm, but I don't expect
there to be any of the others.
As a side-effect of these general changes the perl documentation
now only installed by install-{doc,man}, not a mere "install" as
before.
1. 5e9637c629 ("i18n: add infrastructure for translating Git with
gettext", 2011-11-18)
2. b1edc53d06 ("Introduce Git.pm (v4)", 2006-06-24)
3. 18b0fc1ce1 ("Git.pm: Kill Git.xs for now", 2006-09-23)
4. f848718a69 ("Make perl/ build procedure ActiveState friendly.",
2006-12-04)
5. ee9be06770 ("perl: detect new files in MakeMaker builds",
2012-07-27)
6. c59c4939c2 ("perl: regenerate perl.mak if perl -V changes",
2017-03-29)
7. 0386dd37b1 ("Makefile: add PERLLIB_EXTRA variable that adds to
default perl path", 2013-11-15)
8. 87bmjjv1pu.fsf@evledraar.booking.com ("Re: [PATCH] Makefile:
replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules"
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When tests are run for a subsection defined in a config file, it is
better if the results for the current subsection are not overwritting
the results of a previous subsection.
So let's store the results for a subsection in a subdirectory of
"test-results/" with the subsection name.
The aggregate.perl, when it is run for a subsection, should then
aggregate the results found in "test-results/$GIT_PERF_SUBSECTION/".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the test descriptions from being treated as binary blobs by
perl to being treated as UTF-8. This ensures that e.g. a test
description like "æ" is counted as 1 character, not 2.
I have WIP performance tests for non-ASCII grep patterns on another
topic that are affected by this.
Now instead of:
$ ./run p0000-perf-lib-sanity.sh
[...]
0000.4: export a weird var 0.00(0.00+0.00)
0000.5: éḿíẗ ńöń-ÁŚĆÍÍ ćḧáŕáćẗéŕś 0.00(0.00+0.00)
0000.7: important variables available in subshells 0.00(0.00+0.00)
[...]
We emit:
[...]
0000.4: export a weird var 0.00(0.00+0.00)
0000.5: éḿíẗ ńöń-ÁŚĆÍÍ ćḧáŕáćẗéŕś 0.00(0.00+0.00)
0000.7: important variables available in subshells 0.00(0.00+0.00)
[...]
Fixes code originally added in 342e9ef2d9 ("Introduce a performance
testing framework", 2012-02-17).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
aggregate.perl did not work when Git.pm is not installed to a directory
contained in the default Perl library path list or PERLLIB.
This commit prepends the Perl library path of the current Git source
tree to enable this.
Note that this commit adds a hard-coded relative path
use lib '../../perl/blib/lib';
instead of the flexible environment-based variant
use lib (split(/:/, $ENV{GITPERLLIB}));
which is used in tests written in Perl.
The hard-coded variant is used because the whole performance test
framework does it that way (and GITPERLLIB is not set there).
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This introduces a performance testing framework under t/perf/. It
tries to be as close to the test-lib.sh infrastructure as possible,
and thus should be easy to get used to for git developers.
The following points were considered for the implementation:
1. You usually want to compare arbitrary revisions/build trees against
each other. They may not have the performance test under
consideration, or even the perf-lib.sh infrastructure.
To cope with this, the 'run' script lets you specify arbitrary
build dirs and revisions. It even automatically builds the revisions
if it doesn't have them at hand yet.
2. Usually you would not want to run all tests. It would take too
long anyway. The 'run' script lets you specify which tests to run;
or you can also do it manually. There is a Makefile for
discoverability and 'make clean', but it is not meant for
real-world use.
3. Creating test repos from scratch in every test is extremely
time-consuming, and shipping or downloading such large/weird repos
is out of the question.
We leave this decision to the user. Two different sizes of test
repos can be configured, and the scripts just copy one or more of
those (using hardlinks for the object store). By default it tries
to use the build tree's git.git repository.
This is fairly fast and versatile. Using a copy instead of a clone
preserves many properties that the user may want to test for, such
as lots of loose objects, unpacked refs, etc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
