/* Copyright 2018, UCAR/Unidata See COPYRIGHT file for copying and redistribution conditions. This program benchmarks the write and read of reasonable large files, with different chunking parameters set. $Id: bm_chunking.c,v 1.4 2009/08/06 17:29:32 ed Exp $ */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include /* Extra high precision time info. */ #include /* This is one megabyte (2^20), in decimal. */ #define MEGABYTE 1048576 /* Define this to debug. */ #define DIM_LEN (MEGABYTE*32) /*#define DIM_LEN (1024*8)*/ /* Size, in bytes, of a double. */ #define DOUBLE_SIZE 8 /* We will create this file. */ #define FILE_NAME "bm_chunking.nc" /* Subtract the `struct timeval' values X and Y, storing the result in RESULT. Return 1 if the difference is negative, otherwise 0. This function from the GNU documentation. */ int timeval_subtract (result, x, y) struct timeval *result, *x, *y; { /* Perform the carry for the later subtraction by updating Y. */ if (x->tv_usec < y->tv_usec) { int nsec = (y->tv_usec - x->tv_usec) / 1000000 + 1; y->tv_usec -= 1000000 * nsec; y->tv_sec += nsec; } if (x->tv_usec - y->tv_usec > 1000000) { int nsec = (x->tv_usec - y->tv_usec) / 1000000; y->tv_usec += 1000000 * nsec; y->tv_sec -= nsec; } /* Compute the time remaining to wait. `tv_usec' is certainly positive. */ result->tv_sec = x->tv_sec - y->tv_sec; result->tv_usec = x->tv_usec - y->tv_usec; /* Return 1 if result is negative. */ return x->tv_sec < y->tv_sec; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct timeval start_time, end_time, diff_time; printf("\n*** Benchmarking chunking.\n"); printf("\n*** Trying different chunksizes in 4 var, 1D file with " "large dimension (%d)...\n", DIM_LEN); { #define DIM_NAME "Some_really_long_dimension" #define NUMDIMS 1 #define NUMVARS 4 #define NUM_ATTEMPTS 10 #define NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE (DIM_LEN/1024) int ncid, dimids[NUMDIMS], varid[NUMVARS], chunksize[NUMDIMS]; char var_name[NUMVARS][NC_MAX_NAME + 1] = {"England", "Ireland", "Scotland", "Wales"}; size_t start[NUMDIMS], count[NUMDIMS] = {NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE}; int ndims, nvars, natts, unlimdimid; nc_type xtype; char name_in[NC_MAX_NAME + 1]; size_t len; double pi = 3.1459; double data[NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE], data_in[NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE]; int a, i, j; /* Generate phoney data. */ for (i = 0; i < NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE; i++) data[i] = pi * i; /* Try NUM_ATTEMPTS different values of chunksize, timing each one. */ for (a = 0; a < NUM_ATTEMPTS; a++) { /* Create a netCDF netCDF-4/HDF5 format file, with 4 vars. */ if (nc_create(FILE_NAME, NC_NETCDF4, &ncid)) ERR; if (nc_set_fill(ncid, NC_NOFILL, NULL)) ERR; if (nc_def_dim(ncid, DIM_NAME, DIM_LEN, dimids)) ERR; /* According to Quncey, a square chunk around 1 MB in size is a * reasonable idea. */ chunksize[0] = DIM_LEN/pow(2, a+6); for (i = 0; i < NUMVARS; i++) { if (nc_def_var(ncid, var_name[i], NC_DOUBLE, NUMDIMS, dimids, &varid[i])) ERR; if (nc_def_var_chunking(ncid, i, NC_CHUNKED, chunksize)) ERR; } if (nc_enddef(ncid)) ERR; /* Write the data and time it. */ if (gettimeofday(&start_time, NULL)) ERR; for (start[0] = 0; start[0] < DIM_LEN; start[0] += NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE) for (i = 0; i < NUMVARS; i++) if (nc_put_vara_double(ncid, i, start, count, data)) ERR; if (nc_close(ncid)) ERR; if (gettimeofday(&end_time, NULL)) ERR; if (timeval_subtract(&diff_time, &end_time, &start_time)) ERR; printf("chunksize %d write time %d sec %d usec\n", chunksize[0], (int)diff_time.tv_sec, (int)diff_time.tv_usec); /* Reopen and check the file metadata. */ if (nc_open(FILE_NAME, 0, &ncid)) ERR; if (nc_inq(ncid, &ndims, &nvars, &natts, &unlimdimid)) ERR; if (ndims != NUMDIMS || nvars != NUMVARS || natts != 0 || unlimdimid != -1) ERR; if (nc_inq_dimids(ncid, &ndims, dimids, 1)) ERR; if (ndims != 1 || dimids[0] != 0) ERR; if (nc_inq_dim(ncid, 0, name_in, &len)) ERR; if (strcmp(name_in, DIM_NAME) || len != DIM_LEN) ERR; for (i = 0; i < NUMVARS; i++) { if (nc_inq_var(ncid, i, name_in, &xtype, &ndims, dimids, &natts)) ERR; if (strcmp(name_in, var_name[i]) || xtype != NC_DOUBLE || ndims != 1 || dimids[0] != 0 || natts != 0) ERR; } /* Read the data and time it. */ if (gettimeofday(&start_time, NULL)) ERR; for (start[0] = 0; start[0] < DIM_LEN; start[0] += NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE) for (i = 0; i < NUMVARS; i++) if (nc_get_vara_double(ncid, i, start, count, data_in)) ERR; if (gettimeofday(&end_time, NULL)) ERR; if (timeval_subtract(&diff_time, &end_time, &start_time)) ERR; printf("chunksize %d read time %d sec %d usec\n", chunksize[0], (int)diff_time.tv_sec, (int)diff_time.tv_usec); /* Reread, and check the data (but don't time this operation). */ for (start[0] = DIM_LEN - NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE; start[0] > 0; start[0] -= NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE) for (i = 0; i < NUMVARS; i++) { if (nc_get_vara_double(ncid, i, start, count, data_in)) ERR; for (j = 0; j < NUM_VALUES_TO_WRITE; j++) if (data[j] != data_in[j]) ERR; } if (nc_close(ncid)) ERR; } } SUMMARIZE_ERR; FINAL_RESULTS; }