Cacheline

Cache line contention experiments.

Prerequisites

The project is built using CMake and requires version 3.20 or newer to work correctly.

Cacheline takes a dependency on:

• googletest for unit tests
• benchmark for benchmarks

Both dependencies are included in the source tree as a git submodule. Run the following to check out the module and make it available to the build system:

$ cd <path-to-cacheline>
$ git submodule update --init

Building

Cacheline is tested on Linux and macOS.

The following will generate the build system and then build all targets:

$ cd <path-to-cacheline>
$ cmake -B build
$ cmake --build build

Benchmarks

Start by building the benchmarks executable:

$ cmake --build build --target cacheline-benchmarks

Now run the benchmarks using CMake's ctest utility:

$ ctest --test-dir build -R cacheline-benchmarks -V

Alternatively, run the benchmarks executable directly:

$ ./build/cacheline-benchmarks

Tests

Start by building the unit tests executable:

$ cmake --build build --target cacheline-tests

Now run the unit tests using CMake's ctest utility:

$ ctest --test-dir build -R cacheline-tests -V

Alternatively, run the tests executable directly:

$ ./build/cacheline-tests