Macros

Here we present the list of macros available in the marta_wrapper.h header file:

Macro	Description
MARTA_BENCHMARK_BEGIN	Sets benchmark’s start. It also sets CPU affinity for the execution using Linux system calls.
MARTA_BENCHMARK_END	Sets the end of the main function in the program.
MARTA_FLUSH_CACHE	Performs clflush of size s at memory address p. Flush is performed at cache line level, typically 64 bytes.
PROFILE_FUNCTION(f)	Instruments function f in a loop with TSTEPS iterations without performing any loop optimization. This is useful for collecting stable measurements, even though it provokes the hot cache effect for small functions without saturating memory caches. It avoids the loop if TSTEPS is not greater than 1.
CLOBBER_MEM	Acts as a read/write barrier. Useful for micro-benchmarking, avoiding the reuse of values in register bringing values from memory.
DO_NOT_TOUCH(x)	Useful for avoiding any compiler optimization over variable x materialized in a register.