FxMark: Filesystem Multicore Scalability Benchmark

Install & build

• Tested: Ubuntu 14.04

• Install filesystem-specific packages (e.g., mkfs.*)

$ bin/install-fs-tools.sh

• Build FxMark

$  make

• Clean FxMark

$  make clean

How to run

• Benchmark configuration

  • Set target media paths at bin/run-fxmark.py (e.g., Runner.LOOPDEV)
  • Set configuration for each run at bin/run-fxmark.py (i.e., run_config)

• Run benchmark

  • A log file will be created at 'logs' directory with starting time.

$  bin/run-fxmark.py

Plot results

• Scalability graphs

$  bin/plotter.py --ty sc --log {log file} --out {output pdf file}

• CPU utilization graphs

$  bin/plotter.py --ty util --log {log file} --ncore {# core} --out {output pdf file}

Macro benchmarks

• Refer to our fxmark-apps branch in the vbench repo for exim and rocksdb

Authors

• Changwoo Min changwoo@gatech.edu
• Sanidhya Kashyap sanidhya@gatech.edu
• Steffen Maass steffen.maass@gatech.edu
• Woonhak Kang woonhak.kang@gatech.edu
• Taesoo Kim taesoo@gatech.edu

Publications

• Paper on FxMark

Understanding Manycore Scalability of File Systems
Changwoo Min, Sanidhya Kashyap, Steffen Maass, Woonhak Kang, and Taesoo Kim
USENIX ATC 2016

@inproceedings{min:fxmark,
  title        = {{Understanding Manycore Scalability of File Systems}},
  author       = {Changwoo Min and Sanidhya Kashyap and Steffen Maass and Woonhak Kang and Taesoo Kim},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC)},
  month        = jun,
  year         = 2016,
  address      = {Denver, CO},
}