基准测试时如何使缓存无效?

时间:2010-04-21 03:03:26

标签: c caching benchmarking cache-invalidation

我有这个代码,在交换UsingAs和UsingCast的顺序时,它们的性能也会交换。

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;

using System.IO;

class Test
{
    const int Size = 30000000;

    static void Main()
    {
        object[] values = new MemoryStream[Size];



        UsingAs(values);
        UsingCast(values);


        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    static void UsingCast(object[] values)
    {
        Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        int sum = 0;
        foreach (object o in values)
        {
            if (o is MemoryStream)
            {
                var m = (MemoryStream)o;
                sum += (int)m.Length;
            }
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Cast: {0} : {1}", sum,
                          (long)sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
    }

    static void UsingAs(object[] values)
    {
        Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        int sum = 0;
        foreach (object o in values)
        {

            if (o is MemoryStream)
            {
                var m = o as MemoryStream;
                sum += (int)m.Length;
            }
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("As: {0} : {1}", sum,
                          (long)sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
    }


}

输出:

As: 0 : 322
Cast: 0 : 281

这样做......

UsingCast(values);
UsingAs(values);

...结果:

Cast: 0 : 322
As: 0 : 281

这样做......

UsingAs(values);

...结果:

As: 0 : 322

这样做的时候:

UsingCast(values);

...结果:

Cast: 0 : 322

除了独立运行它们之外,如何使缓存无效,以便第二个被基准测试的代码不会收到第一个代码的缓存内存?

除了标杆之外,只是喜欢现代处理器做这种缓存魔术的事实: - )

[编辑]

建议尝试这个更快的代码(据说)......

static void UsingAsAndNullTest(object[] values)
{        
    Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
    int sum = 0;
    foreach (object o in values)
    {
        var m = o as MemoryStream;
        if (m != null)
        {                
            sum += (int)m.Length;
        }
    }
    sw.Stop();
    Console.WriteLine("As and null test: {0} : {1}", sum,
                      (long)sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
}

......结果如下:

As and null test: 0 : 342

比上面的两个代码慢

[编辑]:

建议将每个例程交给他们自己的副本......

static void UsingAs(object[] values)
{
    object[] a = values.ToArray();

    Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
    int sum = 0;
    foreach (object o in a)
    {

        if (o is MemoryStream)
        {
            var m = o as MemoryStream;
            sum += (int)m.Length;
        }
    }
    sw.Stop();
    Console.WriteLine("As: {0} : {1}", sum,
                      (long)sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
}

static void UsingCast(object[] values)
{
    object[] a = values.ToArray();

    Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
    int sum = 0;
    foreach (object o in a)
    {
        if (o is MemoryStream)
        {
            var m = (MemoryStream)o;
            sum += (int)m.Length;
        }
    }
    sw.Stop();
    Console.WriteLine("Cast: {0} : {1}", sum,
                      (long)sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
}

...输出:

Cast: 0 : 282
As: 0 : 282

现在他们有相同的结果,感谢Remus!

独立地运行Cast和As,它们也产生相同的结果(即282)。现在,至于他们为什么变得更快(从322到282毫秒)当他们交给他们自己的阵列副本时,我无法做出任何结果:-)这完全是另一个故事< / p>

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

如果你想从图片中取出L2缓存和TLB未命中,那么只需在相同大小的不同MemoryStream上调用第二个测试。