Re: [PATCH 0/4] perf annotate: Improve memory usage for symbol histogram

[Ian Rogers]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 4:52 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This is another series of memory optimization in perf annotate.
>
> When perf annotate (or perf report/top with TUI) processes samples, it
> needs to save the sample period (overhead) at instruction level.  For
> now, it allocates an array to do that for the whole symbol when it
> hits any new symbol.  This comes with a lot of waste since samples can
> be very few and instructions span to multiple bytes.
>
> For example, when a sample hits symbol 'foo' that has size of 100 and
> that's the only sample falls into the symbol.  Then it needs to
> allocate a symbol histogram (sym_hist) and the its size would be
>
>   16 (header) + 16 (sym_hist_entry) * 100 (symbol_size) = 1616
>
> But actually it just needs 32 (header + sym_hist_entry) bytes.  Things
> get worse if the symbol size is bigger (and it doesn't have many
> samples in different places).  Also note that it needs separate
> histogram for each event.
>
> Let's split the sym_hist_entry and have it in a hash table so that it
> can allocate only necessary entries.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
>
> Namhyung Kim (4):
>   perf annotate: Add a hashmap for symbol histogram
>   perf annotate: Calculate instruction overhead using hashmap
>   perf annotate: Remove sym_hist.addr[] array
>   perf annotate: Add comments in the data structures

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Ian

>  tools/perf/ui/gtk/annotate.c |  14 ++++-
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c   | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.h   |  86 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  3 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
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