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Milian Wolff committed b38775cf767
perf report: Cache failed lookups of inlined frames
When no inlined frames could be found for a given address, we did not
store this information anywhere. That means we potentially do the costly
inliner lookup repeatedly for cases where we know it can never succeed.
This patch makes dso__parse_addr_inlines always return a valid
inline_node. It will be empty when no inliners are found. This enables
us to cache the empty list in the DSO, thereby improving the performance
when many addresses fail to find the inliners.
For my trivial example, the performance impact is already quite
significant:
Before:
~~~~~
Performance counter stats for 'perf report --stdio --inline -g srcline -s srcline' (5 runs):
594.804032 task-clock (msec) # 0.998 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.07% )
53 context-switches # 0.089 K/sec ( +- 4.09% )
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +-100.00% )
5,687 page-faults # 0.010 M/sec ( +- 0.02% )
2,300,918,213 cycles # 3.868 GHz ( +- 0.09% )
4,395,839,080 instructions # 1.91 insn per cycle ( +- 0.00% )
939,177,205 branches # 1578.969 M/sec ( +- 0.00% )
11,824,633 branch-misses # 1.26% of all branches ( +- 0.10% )
0.596246531 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.07% )
~~~~~
After:
~~~~~
Performance counter stats for 'perf report --stdio --inline -g srcline -s srcline' (5 runs):
113.111405 task-clock (msec) # 0.990 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.89% )
29 context-switches # 0.255 K/sec ( +- 54.25% )
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
5,380 page-faults # 0.048 M/sec ( +- 0.01% )
432,378,779 cycles # 3.823 GHz ( +- 0.75% )
670,057,633 instructions # 1.55 insn per cycle ( +- 0.01% )
141,001,247 branches # 1246.570 M/sec ( +- 0.01% )
2,346,845 branch-misses # 1.66% of all branches ( +- 0.19% )
0.114222393 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.19% )
~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171019113836.5548-3-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>