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

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:01:23 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

It is pretty bad:

akpm:/usr/src/25> time (for i in $(seq 1000); do; cat /proc/self/stat > /dev/null; done)     
(; for i in $(seq 1000); do; cat /proc/self/stat > /dev/null; done; )  0.05s user 0.94s system 29% cpu 3.367 total

(29% CPU?)

> # 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>
> 

Did you measure the improvement from this patch?

> 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.

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