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Commit d9664582 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf pmu: Use file system cache to optimize sysfs access


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 (>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: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191121001522.180827-2-andi@firstfloor.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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