procfs: optimize seq_pad() to speed up /proc/pid/maps
authorAndrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:30:47 +0000 (16:30 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:28:32 +0000 (10:28 -0700)
commit8cfa67b4d9a9d9a6061f3cfd0e0ed16e66e45984
treecf95174279e04babd3bc9feb8f64179ca7257259
parent0e3dc019143104a6e676287b1e453cccd7add404
procfs: optimize seq_pad() to speed up /proc/pid/maps

seq_printf() is slow and it can be replaced by memset() in this case.

== test.py
  num = 0
  with open("/proc/1/maps") as f:
          while num < 10000 :
                  data = f.read()
                  f.seek(0, 0)
                  num = num + 1
==

== Before patch ==
  $  time python test.py
  real 0m0.986s
  user 0m0.279s
  sys 0m0.707s

== After patch ==
  $ time python test.py
  real 0m0.932s
  user 0m0.261s
  sys 0m0.669s

$ perf record -g python test.py
== Before patch ==
-   47.35%     3.38%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_map_vma.isra.23
   - 43.97% show_map_vma.isra.23
      + 20.84% seq_path
      - 15.73% show_vma_header_prefix
      + 6.96% seq_pad
   + 2.94% __GI___libc_read

== After patch ==
-   44.01%     0.34%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_pid_map
   - 43.67% show_pid_map
      - 42.91% show_map_vma.isra.23
         + 21.55% seq_path
         - 15.68% show_vma_header_prefix
         + 2.08% seq_pad
        0.55% seq_putc

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180112185812.7710-2-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/seq_file.c