From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>,
Andrew Morton OSDL <akpm@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:20:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915202028.GV9106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915200230.GA13621@k3.hellgate.ch>
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:02:30PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> Here's another thing we haven't been able to do with /proc: Finding out
> the relative cost of computing the elements we offer to user space.
> I ran a test program against 2.6.9-rc2-bk1 + nproc to get:
> Testing all process fields, best out of 10
> FieldID CPU (s) Wall (s) Label
> 0x03000002 0.140000 0.202728 NOP
> 0x21000100 0.150000 0.210021 Name
> 0x22000105 0.120000 0.204886 PID
> 0x22000109 0.130000 0.205319 UID
> 0x22000117 0.140000 0.215275 VmSize
> 0x22000118 0.130000 0.214240 VmLock
> 0x22000119 0.120000 0.214870 VmRSS
> 0x22000120 0.160000 1.020574 VmData
> 0x22000121 0.140000 1.021185 VmStack
> 0x22000122 0.170000 1.021619 VmExe
> 0x22000123 0.170000 1.020045 VmLib
> 0x23000421 0.140000 0.220748 wchan
> Ignore the absolute values (I requested each field individually for all
> processes on my workstation, 1000 times). The cost of walking all vmas
> for VmData & Co. is very visible.
Try this again after applying my updates, which make it equivalent to the
algorithms used internally by fs/proc/task_mmu.c.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-08 18:40 [0/1][ANNOUNCE] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information Roger Luethi
2004-09-08 18:41 ` [1/1][PATCH] " Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 0:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 0:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:17 ` [1/2] rediff nproc v2 vs. 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:21 ` [2/2] handle CONFIG_MMU=n and use new vm stats for CONFIG_MMU=y William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:26 ` [3/2] round up text memory to the nearest page in fs/proc/task_mmu.c William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 18:43 ` [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 18:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 19:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 19:02 ` [4/2] consolidate __task_mem() and __task_mem_cheap() William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 19:07 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 19:15 ` [5/2] fix nommu VSZ reporting in consolidated task_mem() William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 19:11 ` [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 19:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 21:19 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-10 15:30 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-11 22:25 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-12 4:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 5:59 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 6:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 6:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 7:47 ` Greg Ungerer
2004-09-14 8:27 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 11:53 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-09-09 17:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 17:53 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 20:01 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-09-09 20:48 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-10 12:11 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-09-09 20:55 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 21:05 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-09 21:25 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-11 22:36 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-12 5:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 6:44 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 7:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 7:55 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 8:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 9:27 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 15:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 16:01 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 16:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 17:15 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 17:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 18:45 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 19:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 19:31 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 19:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 19:50 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-15 11:44 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-15 20:02 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-15 20:20 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-09-15 20:33 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-15 20:44 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 18:37 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-14 18:55 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 19:05 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-14 21:12 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 20:44 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-16 21:43 ` nproc: So? Roger Luethi
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