From: Jiri Olsa Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:47:27 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.16/fixes-rc4~70^2^2^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c658045197814b7d762662f9aa9f652379121a03;p=pandora-kernel.git perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor Caching dso data file descriptors to avoid expensive re-opens especially during DWARF unwind. We keep dsos data file descriptors open until their count reaches the half of the current fd open limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE). In this case we close file descriptor of the first opened dso object. We've got overall speedup (~27% for my workload) of report: 'perf report --stdio -i perf-test.data' (3 runs) (perf-test.data size was around 12GB) current code: 545,640,944,228 cycles ( +- 0.53% ) 785,255,798,320 instructions ( +- 0.03% ) 366.340910010 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.65% ) after change: 435,895,036,114 cycles ( +- 0.26% ) 636,790,271,176 instructions ( +- 0.04% ) 266.481463387 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.13% ) Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa --- Reading git-diff-tree failed