* Copyright (C) 2024-2025 Colin Ian King.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*
*/
#include "stress-ng.h"
#include "core-config-check.h"
#include <ctype.h>
#if defined(HAVE_TERMIO_H)
#include <termio.h>
#endif
#if defined(__linux__)
static int stress_config_check_cpu_filter(const struct dirent *d)
{
if (UNLIKELY(!d))
return 0;
if (UNLIKELY(strlen(d->d_name) < 4))
return 0;
if (strncmp(d->d_name, "cpu", 3))
return 0;
if (isdigit((unsigned char)d->d_name[3]))
return 1;
return 0;
}
* stress_config_read()
* read a uint64_t value from a file
*/
static int stress_config_read(const char *path, uint64_t *value)
{
char buffer[256];
if (UNLIKELY(stress_system_read(path, buffer, sizeof(buffer)) < 0))
return -1;
if (UNLIKELY(!*buffer))
return -1;
if (UNLIKELY(sscanf(buffer, "%" SCNu64, value) < 0))
return -1;
return 0;
}
#endif
* stress_config_check()
* sanity check system configuration and inform user if
* any sub-optimal performance configurations are being used
*/
void stress_config_check(void)
{
size_t shmall = 0, freemem = 0, totalmem = 0, freeswap = 0, totalswap = 0, freetotal;
#if defined(__linux__)
if (g_opt_flags & OPT_FLAGS_METRICS) {
static const char autogroup_path[] = "/proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled";
static const char cpu_path[] = "/sys/devices/system/cpu";
static const char boost_path[] = "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost";
static const char turbo_path[] = "/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo";
uint64_t value;
struct dirent **namelist = NULL;
int n, i;
int powersave = 0;
if ((stress_config_read(autogroup_path, &value) != -1) && (value > 0)) {
#if defined(HAVE_TERMIO_H) && \
defined(TCGETS)
struct termios t;
int ret;
ret = ioctl(fileno(stdout), TCGETS, &t);
if ((ret < 0) && (errno == ENOTTY)) {
pr_inf("note: %s is %" PRIu64 " and this can impact "
"scheduling throughput for processes not "
"attached to a tty. Setting this to 0 may "
"improve performance metrics\n", autogroup_path, value);
}
#endif
}
if ((stress_config_read(boost_path, &value) != -1) && (value == 0)) {
pr_inf("note: boost is disabled and this may impact "
"top performance; setting %s to 1 may improve "
"performance.\n", boost_path);
}
if ((stress_config_read(turbo_path, &value) != -1) && (value == 1)) {
pr_inf("note: turbo is disabled and this may impact "
"top performance; setting %s to 0 may improve "
"performance.\n", turbo_path);
}
n = scandir(cpu_path, &namelist, stress_config_check_cpu_filter, alphasort);
for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
char filename[PATH_MAX];
char buffer[64];
(void)snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s/%s/cpufreq/scaling_governor", cpu_path, namelist[i]->d_name);
if (UNLIKELY(stress_system_read(filename, buffer, sizeof(buffer)) < 0))
continue;
if (strncmp(buffer, "powersave", 9) == 0)
powersave++;
}
stress_dirent_list_free(namelist, n);
if (powersave > 0) {
pr_inf("note: %d cpus have scaling governors set to "
"powersave and this may impact performance; "
"setting %s/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor to "
"'performance' may improve performance\n",
powersave, cpu_path);
}
}
#endif
stress_get_memlimits(&shmall, &freemem, &totalmem, &freeswap, &totalswap);
freetotal = freemem + freeswap;
if (((freemem > 0) && (freemem < (size_t)(256 * MB))) ||
((freetotal > 0) && (freetotal < (size_t)(512 * MB)))) {
pr_inf("note: system has only %zu MB of free memory and swap, "
"recommend using --oom-avoid\n", freetotal / (size_t)MB);
}
}