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>
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