pipe_lat.c

/* 
    Measure latency of IPC using unix domain sockets


    Copyright (c) 2010 Erik Rigtorp <erik@rigtorp.com>

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*/


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdint.h>


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int ofds[2];
  int ifds[2];

  int size;
  char *buf;
  int64_t count, i, delta;
  struct timeval start, stop;

  if (argc != 3) {
    printf ("usage: pipe_lat <message-size> <roundtrip-count>\n");
    return 1;
  }

  size = atoi(argv[1]);
  count = atol(argv[2]);

  buf = malloc(size);
  if (buf == NULL) {
    perror("malloc");
    return 1;
  }

  printf("message size: %i octets\n", size);
  printf("roundtrip count: %lli\n", count);

  if (pipe(ofds) == -1) {
    perror("pipe");
    return 1;
  }

  if (pipe(ifds) == -1) {
    perror("pipe");
    return 1;
  }

  if (!fork()) {  /* child */
    for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
      
      if (read(ifds[0], buf, size) != size) {
        perror("read");
        return 1;
      }
      
      if (write(ofds[1], buf, size) != size) {
        perror("write");
        return 1;
      }
    }
  } else { /* parent */
  
    gettimeofday(&start, NULL);

    for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {

      if (write(ifds[1], buf, size) != size) {
        perror("write");
        return 1;
      }

      if (read(ofds[0], buf, size) != size) {
        perror("read");
        return 1;
      }
      
    }

    gettimeofday(&stop, NULL);

    delta = ((stop.tv_sec - start.tv_sec) * (int64_t) 1000000 +
	     stop.tv_usec - start.tv_usec);
    
    printf("average latency: %lli us\n", delta / (count * 2));

  }
  
  return 0;
}