linux-kernel - [tip:perf/urgent] perf ui tui progress: Don' t force a refresh during progress update

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 2013 13:54:35 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Patrick Palka <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	acme@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulus@...ba.org,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	patrick@...cs.ath.cx, namhyung@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf ui tui progress: Don'
 t force a refresh during progress update

Commit-ID:  d53e57d039c323fe3a43630e9f729df48134e2c9
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/d53e57d039c323fe3a43630e9f729df48134e2c9
Author:     Patrick Palka <patrick@...cs.ath.cx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:25:49 -0400
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:56:39 -0300

perf ui tui progress: Don't force a refresh during progress update

Each call to tui_progress__update() would forcibly refresh the entire
screen.  This is somewhat inefficient and causes noticable flickering
during the startup of perf-report, especially on large/slow terminals.

It looks like the force-refresh in tui_progress__update() serves no
purpose other than to clear the screen so that the progress bar of a
previous operation does not subsume that of a subsequent operation.  But
we can do just that in a much more efficient manner by clearing only the
region that a previous progress bar may have occupied before repainting
the new progress bar.  Then the force-refresh could be removed with no
change in visuals.

This patch disables the slow force-refresh in tui_progress__update() and
instead calls SLsmg_fill_region() on the entire area that the progress
bar may occupy before repainting it.  This change makes the startup of
perf-report much faster and appear much "smoother".

It turns out that this was a big bottleneck in the startup speed of
perf-report -- with this patch, perf-report starts up ~2x faster (1.1s
vs 0.55s) on my machines.  (These numbers were measured by running "time
perf report" on an 8MB perf.data and pressing 'q' immediately.)

Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@...cs.ath.cx>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382747149-9716-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c b/tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c
index 3e2d936..c61d14b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c
@@ -18,13 +18,14 @@ static void tui_progress__update(struct ui_progress *p)
 	if (p->total == 0)
 		return;

-	ui__refresh_dimensions(true);
+	ui__refresh_dimensions(false);
 	pthread_mutex_lock(&ui__lock);
 	y = SLtt_Screen_Rows / 2 - 2;
 	SLsmg_set_color(0);
 	SLsmg_draw_box(y, 0, 3, SLtt_Screen_Cols);
 	SLsmg_gotorc(y++, 1);
 	SLsmg_write_string((char *)p->title);
+	SLsmg_fill_region(y, 1, 1, SLtt_Screen_Cols - 2, ' ');
 	SLsmg_set_color(HE_COLORSET_SELECTED);
 	bar = ((SLtt_Screen_Cols - 2) * p->curr) / p->total;
 	SLsmg_fill_region(y, 1, 1, bar, ' ');
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/