linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: faster /proc/*/status

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Message-ID: <1470523294.28648.33.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Sat, 06 Aug 2016 15:41:34 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: faster /proc/*/status

On Sat, 2016-08-06 at 15:56 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 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.

If this is really an important consideration, perhaps
seq_put_decimal_ull (_ll too) should be changed from
	void seq_put_decimal_ull(seq_file *, char, unsigned long long)
to
	void seq_put_decimal_ull(seq_file *, const char *, unsigned long)
> fs/proc/array.c |   87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
[]
> @@ -186,51 +186,52 @@ static inline void task_state(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
>  	task_unlock(p);
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>  
> -	seq_printf(m,
> -		"State:\t%s\n"
> -		"Tgid:\t%d\n"
> -		"Ngid:\t%d\n"
> -		"Pid:\t%d\n"
> -		"PPid:\t%d\n"
> -		"TracerPid:\t%d\n"
> -		"Uid:\t%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\n"
> -		"Gid:\t%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\n"
> -		"FDSize:\t%d\nGroups:\t",
> -		get_task_state(p),
> -		tgid, ngid, pid_nr_ns(pid, ns), ppid, tpid,
> -		from_kuid_munged(user_ns, cred->uid),
> -		from_kuid_munged(user_ns, cred->euid),
> -		from_kuid_munged(user_ns, cred->suid),
> -		from_kuid_munged(user_ns, cred->fsuid),
> -		from_kgid_munged(user_ns, cred->gid),
> -		from_kgid_munged(user_ns, cred->egid),
> -		from_kgid_munged(user_ns, cred->sgid),
> -		from_kgid_munged(user_ns, cred->fsgid),
> -		max_fds);
> -
> +	seq_printf(m, "State:\t%s", get_task_state(p));
> +
> +	seq_puts(m, "\nTgid:\t");
> +	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, 0, tgid);

[etc...]

Perhaps too the conversions from %d to %llu are inappropriate
and seq_put_decimal and seq_put_decimal_u should be added.