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Re: [PATCH 0/2] fs, proc: optimize smaps output formatting

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On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 09:29 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 19-08-16 10:43:15, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2016-08-19 at 12:12 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > this is rebased on top of next-20160818. Joe has pointed out that
> > > meminfo is using a similar trick so I have extracted guts of what we
> > > have already and made it more generic to be usable for smaps as well
> > > (patch 1). The second patch then replaces seq_printf with seq_write
> > > and show_val_kb which should have smaller overhead and my measuring (in
> > > kvm) shows quite a nice improvements. I hope kvm is not playing tricks
> > > on me but I didn't get to test on a real HW.
> > 
> > Hi Michal.
> > 
> > A few comments:
> > 
> > For the first patch:
> > 
> > I think this isn't worth the expansion in object size (x86-64 defconfig)
> > 
> > $ size fs/proc/meminfo.o*
> >    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >    2698	      8	      0	   2706	    a92	fs/proc/meminfo.o.new
> >    2142	      8	      0	   2150	    866	fs/proc/meminfo.o.old
> > 
> > Creating a new static in task_mmu would be smaller and faster code.
> Hmm, nasty...
> add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/1 up/down: 1081/-24 (1057)
> function                                     old     new   delta
> meminfo_proc_show                           1134    1745    +611
> show_smap                                    560    1030    +470
> show_val_kb                                  140     116     -24
> Total: Before=91716, After=92773, chg +1.15%
> 
> it seems to be calls to seq_write which blown up the size. So I've tried
> to put seq_write back to show_val_kb and did only sizeof() inside those
> macros and that reduced the size but not fully back to the original code
> size. So it seems the value shifts consumed some portion of that as well.
> I've ended up with the following incremental diff which leads to
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  100728    1443     400  102571   190ab fs/proc/built-in.o.next
>  101658    1443     400  103501   1944d fs/proc/built-in.o.patched
>  100951    1443     400  102794   1918a fs/proc/built-in.o.incremental
> 
> There is still some increase wrt. the baseline but I guess that can be
> explained by single seq_printf -> many show_name_val_kb calls.
> 
> If that looks acceptable I will respin both patches. I would really
> like to prefer to not duplicate show_val_kb into task_mmu as much as
> possible, though.

I think the patch set I'll send you in a few minutes
will speed up /proc/<pid>/smaps a whole lot more.

Please test it using your little test bench.

cheers, Joe

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[PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-18 13:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-18 15:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-18 16:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-18 16:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-19 03:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 03:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 06:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-18 16:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-18 16:50 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 12:20 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] proc, meminfo: abstract show_val_kb Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 12:20 +0200
  [PATCH 0/2] fs, proc: optimize smaps output formatting Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 12:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] fs, proc: optimize smaps output formatting Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-19 19:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] fs, proc: optimize smaps output formatting Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-19 22:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] fs, proc: optimize smaps output formatting Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-20 09:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] fs, proc: optimize smaps output formatting Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-20 10:00 +0200
        [PATCH 0/2] seq: Speed up /proc/<pid>/smaps Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-20 10:10 +0200
        [PATCH 1/2] seq_file: Add __seq_open_private_bufsize for seq file_operation sizes Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-20 10:10 +0200
        [PATCH 2/2] proc: task_mmu: Reduce output processing cpu time Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-20 10:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] proc: task_mmu: Reduce output processing cpu time Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-22 09:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 2/2] proc: task_mmu: Reduce output processing cpu time Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-22 10:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 2/2] proc: task_mmu: Reduce output processing cpu time Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-22 10:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/2] proc: task_mmu: Reduce output processing cpu time Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-22 14:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] proc, smaps: reduce printing overhead Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 18:20 +0200

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