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"""Definition of the larson benchmark"""

import re

from src.benchmark import Benchmark

THROUGHPUT_RE = re.compile("^Throughput =\\s*(?P<throughput>\\d+) operations per second.$")


class BenchmarkLarson(Benchmark):
    """Larson server benchmark

    This benchmark is courtesy of Paul Larson at Microsoft Research. It
    simulates a server: each thread allocates and deallocates objects, and then
    transfers some objects (randomly selected) to other threads to be freed.
    """

    def __init__(self):
        self.name = "larson"

        # Parameters taken from the paper "Memory Allocation for Long-Running Server
        # Applications" from Larson and Krishnan
        self.cmd = "larson{binary_suffix} 1 8 {maxsize} 1000 50000 1 {threads}"

        self.args = {"maxsize": [64, 512, 1024],
                     "threads": Benchmark.scale_threads_for_cpus(2)}

        self.requirements = ["larson"]
        super().__init__()

    def process_output(self, result, stdout, stderr, target, perm, verbose):
        for line in stdout.splitlines():
            res = THROUGHPUT_RE.match(line)
            if res:
                result["throughput"] = int(res.group("throughput"))
                return

    def summary(self):
        # Plot threads->throughput and maxsize->throughput
        self.plot_fixed_arg("{throughput}/1000000",
                            ylabel="'MOPS/s'",
                            title="'Larson: ' + arg + ' ' + str(arg_value)",
                            filepostfix="throughput")

        self.plot_fixed_arg("({L1-dcache-load-misses}/{L1-dcache-loads})*100",
                            ylabel="'l1 cache misses in %'",
                            title="'Larson cache misses: ' + arg + ' ' + str(arg_value)",
                            filepostfix="cachemisses")


larson = BenchmarkLarson()