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<title>kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/fncache.c, branch linux-7.1.y</title>
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<updated>2025-05-13T19:36:22+00:00</updated>
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<title>perf fncache: Switch to using hashmap</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T19:36:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-12T19:46:20+00:00</published>
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The existing fncache can get large in testing situations. As the
bucket array is a fixed size this leads to it degrading to O(n)
performance. Use a regular hashmap that can dynamically reallocate its
array.

Before:
```
$ time perf test "Parsing of PMU event table metrics"
 10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics                            : Ok
 10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs             : Ok

real    0m14.132s
user    0m17.806s
sys     0m0.557s
```

After:
```
$ time perf test "Parsing of PMU event table metrics"
 10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics                            : Ok
 10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs             : Ok

real    0m13.287s
user    0m13.026s
sys     0m0.532s
```

Committer notes:

  root@number:~# grep -m1 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo
  model name	: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor
  root@number:~#

Before:

  root@number:~# time perf test "Parsing of PMU event table metrics"
   10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics                            : Ok
   10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs             : Ok

  real	0m9.277s
  user	0m9.979s
  sys	0m0.055s
  root@number:~#

After:

  root@number:~# time perf test "Parsing of PMU event table metrics"
   10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics                            : Ok
   10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs             : Ok

  real	0m9.296s
  user	0m9.361s
  sys	0m0.063s
  root@number:~#

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Xu Yang &lt;xu.yang_2@nxp.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512194622.33258-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf pmu: Use file system cache to optimize sysfs access</title>
<updated>2019-11-28T11:08:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-21T00:15:11+00:00</published>
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pmu.c does a lot of redundant /sys accesses while parsing aliases
and probing for PMUs. On large systems with a lot of PMUs this
can get expensive (&gt;2s):

  % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
  ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
   27.25    1.227847           8    160888     16976 openat
   26.42    1.190481           7    164224    164077 stat

Add a cache to remember if specific file names exist or don't
exist, which eliminates most of this overhead.

Also optimize some stat() calls to be slightly cheaper access()

Resulting in:

    0.18    0.004166           2      1851       305 open
    0.08    0.001970           2       829       622 access

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191121001522.180827-2-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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