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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf callchain: Convert children list to rbtree
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:25:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130910102554.GA5087@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130910095216.GB18115@krava.redhat.com>


* Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:24:16PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
> > 
> > Current collapse stage has a scalability problem which can be
> > reproduced easily with parallel kernel build.  This is because it
> > needs to traverse every children of callchain linearly during the
> > collapse/merge stage.  Convert it to rbtree reduced the overhead
> > significantly.
> > 
> > On my 400MB perf.data file which recorded with make -j32 kernel build:
> 
> 
> nice!!!

Nice indeed!

> tried on 2.6 GB data file from kernel make -j64 and got report speed up 
> from 'never' to 2m52.756s ;-)

It's still rather long though, unacceptable for everyday usage :-/

Frederic thought that we could reduce minimize collapsing to begin with.

Frederic, could you outline that in more detail please?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-10 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-10  8:24 [PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Fix scalability problem on callchain merging Namhyung Kim
2013-09-10  8:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf callchain: Convert children list to rbtree Namhyung Kim
2013-09-10  9:02   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-09-10  9:52   ` Jiri Olsa
2013-09-10 10:25     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-09-10 11:34       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-22 11:15   ` Jiri Olsa
2013-09-23  9:29     ` Namhyung Kim
2013-09-23  9:36       ` Jiri Olsa
2013-09-10  8:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf ui/progress: Add new helper functions for progress bar Namhyung Kim
2013-09-10  8:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf tools: Show progress on histogram collapsing Namhyung Kim
2013-09-10 11:58 ` [PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Fix scalability problem on callchain merging Frederic Weisbecker

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