tree 59a40841c54ccddd158fafef84e9e44c0985fb44
parent 85a9f9200226ddffc2ea50dae6a8df04c033ecd4
author Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 1243238276 +0200
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1243249277 +0200

perf top: Reduce display overhead

Iterate over the symbol table once per display interval, and
copy/sort/tally/decay only those symbols which are active.

Before:

 top - 10:14:53 up  4:08, 17 users,  load average: 1.17, 1.53, 1.49
 Tasks: 273 total,   5 running, 268 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
 Cpu(s):  6.9%us, 38.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 19.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 35.0%si,  0.0%st

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND
 28504 root      20   0  1044  260  164 S   58  0.0   0:04.19 2 netserver
 28499 root      20   0  1040  412  316 R   51  0.0   0:04.15 0 netperf
 28500 root      20   0  1040  408  316 R   50  0.0   0:04.14 1 netperf
 28503 root      20   0  1044  260  164 S   50  0.0   0:04.01 1 netserver
 28501 root      20   0  1044  260  164 S   49  0.0   0:03.99 0 netserver
 28502 root      20   0  1040  412  316 S   43  0.0   0:03.96 2 netperf
 28468 root      20   0 1892m 325m  972 S   16 10.8   0:10.50 3 perf
 28467 root      20   0 1892m 325m  972 R    2 10.8   0:00.72 3 perf

After:

 top - 10:16:30 up  4:10, 17 users,  load average: 2.27, 1.88, 1.62
 Tasks: 273 total,   6 running, 267 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
 Cpu(s):  2.5%us, 39.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 24.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 33.3%si,  0.0%st

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND
 28590 root      20   0  1040  412  316 S   54  0.0   0:07.85 2 netperf
 28589 root      20   0  1044  260  164 R   54  0.0   0:07.84 0 netserver
 28588 root      20   0  1040  412  316 R   50  0.0   0:07.89 1 netperf
 28591 root      20   0  1044  256  164 S   50  0.0   0:07.82 1 netserver
 28587 root      20   0  1040  408  316 R   47  0.0   0:07.61 0 netperf
 28592 root      20   0  1044  260  164 R   47  0.0   0:07.85 2 netserver
 28378 root      20   0  8732 1300  860 R    2  0.0   0:01.81 3 top
 28577 root      20   0 1892m 165m  972 R    2  5.5   0:00.48 3 perf
 28578 root      20   0 1892m 165m  972 S    2  5.5   0:00.04 3 perf

[ Impact: optimization ]

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>