Existing benchtests for malloc infrastructure seem to be rather generic
to test global malloc implementation performance. This new benchtest
focus on reducing any non tcache related side effects, allowing to more
realistically predict performance impacts of tcache code changes.
The test was inpired in bench-[cm]alloc-thread code, with severe
simplifications:
- forces single thread execution, reducing concurrency side-effects,
like cache incoherence penalties due simultaneous writes to the same
cache pages;
- Focus on allocating and deallocating a single size for all the
duration of the benchmark. Since all it does is allocate and
deallocate, it will measure the tcache hotpath without any
side-effects.
- Allows to specify the allocation size as input argument.
Reviewed-by: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
