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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2016-03-17 14:20:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-17 15:09:34 -0700
commitd9b2ddf8078f743729a054362ad96be076f224af (patch)
treef9117a790718e1262dcd948534f30ebfb683be80 /tools/vm
parent7f2bd006334291178bd2bce3e506d4c7a34a0643 (diff)
downloadlinux-d9b2ddf8078f743729a054362ad96be076f224af.tar.gz
tools/vm/page-types.c: avoid memset() in walk_pfn() when count == 1
I found that page-types is very slow and my testing shows many timeout
errors.  Here's an example with a simple program allocating 1000 thps.

  $ time ./page-types -p $(pgrep -f test_alloc)
  ...
  real    0m17.201s
  user    0m16.889s
  sys     0m0.312s

Most of time is spent in memset().  Currently memset() clears over whole
buffer for every walk_pfn() call, which is inefficient when walk_pfn()
is called from walk_vma(), because in that case walk_pfn() is called for
each pfn.  So this patch limits the zero initialization only for the
first element.

  $ time ./page-types.patched -p $(pgrep -f test_alloc)
  ...
  real    0m0.182s
  user    0m0.046s
  sys     0m0.135s

Fixes: 954e95584579 ("tools/vm/page-types.c: add memory cgroup dumping and filtering")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Suggested-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/vm')
-rw-r--r--tools/vm/page-types.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/vm/page-types.c b/tools/vm/page-types.c
index dab61c377f54..e92903fc7113 100644
--- a/tools/vm/page-types.c
+++ b/tools/vm/page-types.c
@@ -633,7 +633,15 @@ static void walk_pfn(unsigned long voffset,
 	unsigned long pages;
 	unsigned long i;
 
-	memset(cgi, 0, sizeof cgi);
+	/*
+	 * kpagecgroup_read() reads only if kpagecgroup were opened, but
+	 * /proc/kpagecgroup might even not exist, so it's better to fill
+	 * them with zeros here.
+	 */
+	if (count == 1)
+		cgi[0] = 0;
+	else
+		memset(cgi, 0, sizeof cgi);
 
 	while (count) {
 		batch = min_t(unsigned long, count, KPAGEFLAGS_BATCH);