[PATCH v1] tools/vm/page-types.c: remove memset() in walk_pfn()

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Mon Mar 07 2016 - 20:47:46 EST


I found that page-types is very slow and my testing shows many timeout errors.
Here's an example with a simple program allocating 1000 thps.

$ time ./page-types -p $(pgrep -f test_alloc)
...
real 0m17.201s
user 0m16.889s
sys 0m0.312s

$ time ./page-types.patched -p $(pgrep -f test_alloc)
...
real 0m0.182s
user 0m0.046s
sys 0m0.135s

Most of time is spent in memset(), which isn't necessary because we check
that the return of kpagecgroup_read() is equal to pages and uninitialized
memory is never used. So we can drop this memset().

Fixes: 954e95584579 ("tools/vm/page-types.c: add memory cgroup dumping and filtering")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/vm/page-types.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18/tools/vm/page-types.c v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18_patched/tools/vm/page-types.c
index dab61c3..c192baf 100644
--- v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18/tools/vm/page-types.c
+++ v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18_patched/tools/vm/page-types.c
@@ -633,8 +633,6 @@ static void walk_pfn(unsigned long voffset,
unsigned long pages;
unsigned long i;

- memset(cgi, 0, sizeof cgi);
-
while (count) {
batch = min_t(unsigned long, count, KPAGEFLAGS_BATCH);
pages = kpageflags_read(buf, index, batch);
--
2.7.0