[PATCH v2] proc: speedup /proc/stat handling

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Jan 24 2012 - 19:01:26 EST


On a typical 16 cpus machine, "cat /proc/stat" gives more than 4096
bytes, and is slow :

# strace -T -o /tmp/STRACE cat /proc/stat | wc -c
5826
# grep "cpu " /tmp/STRACE
read(0, "cpu 1949310 19 2144714 12117253"..., 32768) = 5826 <0.001504>


Thats partly because show_stat() must be called twice since initial
buffer size is too small (4096 bytes for less than 32 possible cpus)

Fix this by :

1) Taking into account nr_irqs in the initial buffer sizing.

2) Using ksize() to allow better filling of initial buffer.


Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Tuner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
V2: No change on "intr" line for compatibility sake.

fs/proc/stat.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/stat.c b/fs/proc/stat.c
index 121f77c..ac44611 100644
--- a/fs/proc/stat.c
+++ b/fs/proc/stat.c
@@ -157,11 +157,14 @@ static int show_stat(struct seq_file *p, void *v)

static int stat_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- unsigned size = 4096 * (1 + num_possible_cpus() / 32);
+ unsigned size = 1024 + 128 * num_possible_cpus();
char *buf;
struct seq_file *m;
int res;

+ /* minimum size to display an interrupt count : 2 bytes */
+ size += 2 * nr_irqs;
+
/* don't ask for more than the kmalloc() max size */
if (size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
size = KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE;
@@ -173,7 +176,7 @@ static int stat_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
if (!res) {
m = file->private_data;
m->buf = buf;
- m->size = size;
+ m->size = ksize(buf);
} else
kfree(buf);
return res;


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