> On 5 Jul 2015, at 05:45 , Cory Pruce <corypr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One more thing for right now: how should I do benchmarks with chutney. > Should I measure the averages of how long it takes to complete the make > test-network command?
make test-network is dominated by the 25 second delay waiting for the Tor test network to bootstrap. So it's not going to help much. I'm working on a chutney branch to measure bandwidth on "chutney verify", but it doesn't have any command-line arguments yet (it's all constants in the code). I'll see if I can pull it into shape today. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14175 Even with these bandwidth measurement changes, there's something else to think about: chutney will measure the combined throughput of 4-5 tor instances, and 4n - 5n cpuworker threads, where n is the number of cores on your machine. But this isn't the performance you're interested in for multithreaded crypto changes - you want to know how a single instance + n cpuworker threads performs. (A chutney test network is far *more* parallel than a typical tor relay.) To get an accurate benchmark, you could run one tor instance per machine, or, at the very least, run the client on a slow machine, and everything else on a fast machine, so that the client's multithreaded crypto is the limiting factor. But this seems like a lot of work, and I'm not sure how much accuracy you'll gain. As a first step, you could minimise the number of tor instances, which might make multithreading improvements easier to measure. You'll find the basic-min network helpful for this: ./src/test/test-network.sh --flavour basic-min Then check if you're using ~100% of all cores when you push large amounts (100MB+) of data through the network using #14175 (when it's done!) If you're not using 100%, then you'll be able to see any multithreaded improvements when you run the test again. If you are seeing 100% usage already, get more cores or more machines, and re-run the tests. Let me know how you go with this. You could also modify tor to use single-hop connections, then measure single-hop bandwidth, by making a 1-hop connection and pushing data through it. There won't be as much client crypto as the 3 or 4-hop scenario; and you'll still have the client and destination on the one machine, unlike the single relay real-world scenario. But it could be closer to real-world multithreaded performance, as you'll only be measuring 2n threads. (Ideally, you want to measure n threads.) You must *never* use a tor binary built like this on the public tor network, as it has no anonymity. To make tor use 1-hop circuits for everything, change DEFAULT_ROUTE_LEN to 1 in or.h End dire warning about loss of anonymity. Of course, 1-hop circuits might hide some subtle multithreading bugs, as there's less crypto happening overall. So please test the correctness of your code with DEFAULT_ROUTE_LEN 3 as well. Give me 8 hours or so to work on #14175, I'll try and get it into a usable state. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com pgp ABFED1AC https://gist.github.com/teor2345/d033b8ce0a99adbc89c5 teor at blah dot im OTR D5BE4EC2 255D7585 F3874930 DB130265 7C9EBBC7
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