tree a164515c5507cd32f548bd8f9ab559dee6a508fa
parent 68ba0326b4e14988f9e0c24a6e12a85cf2acd1ca
author Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> 1475884937 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1475891190 -0700

proc: faster /proc/*/status

top(1) opens the following files for every PID:

	/proc/*/stat
	/proc/*/statm
	/proc/*/status

This patch switches /proc/*/status away from seq_printf().
The result is 13.5% speedup.

Benchmark is open("/proc/self/status")+read+close 1.000.000 million times.

				BEFORE
$ perf stat -r 10 taskset -c 3 ./proc-self-status

 Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 3 ./proc-self-status' (10 runs):

      10748.474301      task-clock (msec)         #    0.954 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.91% )
                12      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  1.09% )
                 1      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
               104      page-faults               #    0.010 K/sec                    ( +-  0.45% )
    37,424,127,876      cycles                    #    3.482 GHz                      ( +-  0.04% )
     8,453,010,029      stalled-cycles-frontend   #   22.59% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.12% )
     3,747,609,427      stalled-cycles-backend    #  10.01% backend cycles idle       ( +-  0.68% )
    65,632,764,147      instructions              #    1.75  insn per cycle
                                                  #    0.13  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.00% )
    13,981,324,775      branches                  # 1300.773 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
       138,967,110      branch-misses             #    0.99% of all branches          ( +-  0.18% )

      11.263885428 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.04% )
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^

				AFTER
$ perf stat -r 10 taskset -c 3 ./proc-self-status

 Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 3 ./proc-self-status' (10 runs):

       9010.521776      task-clock (msec)         #    0.925 CPUs utilized            ( +-  1.54% )
                11      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  1.54% )
                 1      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +- 11.11% )
               103      page-faults               #    0.011 K/sec                    ( +-  0.60% )
    32,352,310,603      cycles                    #    3.591 GHz                      ( +-  0.07% )
     7,849,199,578      stalled-cycles-frontend   #   24.26% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.27% )
     3,269,738,842      stalled-cycles-backend    #  10.11% backend cycles idle       ( +-  0.73% )
    56,012,163,567      instructions              #    1.73  insn per cycle
                                                  #    0.14  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.00% )
    11,735,778,795      branches                  # 1302.453 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
        98,084,459      branch-misses             #    0.84% of all branches          ( +-  0.28% )

       9.741247736 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.07% )
       ^^^^^^^^^^^

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160806125608.GB1187@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>