Re: [PATCH 03/15] print_integer: new and improved way of printing integers

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:27:23 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >   
> > > 	TODO
> > > 	benchmark with mainline because nouveau is broken for me -(
> > > 	vsnprintf() changes make the code slower  
> > 
> > Exactly main point of this exercise. I don't believe that algos in vsprintf.c
> > are too dumb to use division per digit (yes, division by constant which is not
> > power of two is a heavy operation).
> >   
> 
> And second point here, why not to use existing algos from vsprintf.c?

Exactly. The code in _print_integer_u32() doesn't look as fast as the
code in vsprintf() that happens to use lookup tables and converts
without any loops.

Hint, loops are bad, they cause the CPU to slow down.

Anyway, this patch series would require a pretty good improvement, as
the code replacing the sprintf() usages is pretty ugly compared to a
simple sprintf() call.

Randomly picking patch 6:

 static int loadavg_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 {
 	unsigned long avnrun[3];
 
 	get_avenrun(avnrun, FIXED_1/200, 0);
 
	seq_printf(m, "%lu.%02lu %lu.%02lu %lu.%02lu %u/%d %d\n",
		LOAD_INT(avnrun[0]), LOAD_FRAC(avnrun[0]),
		LOAD_INT(avnrun[1]), LOAD_FRAC(avnrun[1]),
		LOAD_INT(avnrun[2]), LOAD_FRAC(avnrun[2]),
		nr_running(), nr_threads,
		idr_get_cursor(&task_active_pid_ns(current)->idr) - 1);
 	return 0;
 }

  *vs* 

 static int loadavg_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 {
 	unsigned long avnrun[3];
	char buf[3 * (LEN_UL + 1 + 2 + 1) + 10 + 1 + 10 + 1 + 10 + 1];
	char *p = buf + sizeof(buf);
	int i;

	*--p = '\n';
	p = _print_integer_u32(p, idr_get_cursor(&task_active_pid_ns(current)->idr) - 1);
	*--p = ' ';
	p = _print_integer_u32(p, nr_threads);
	*--p = '/';
	p = _print_integer_u32(p, nr_running());

 	get_avenrun(avnrun, FIXED_1/200, 0);
	for (i = 2; i >= 0; i--) {
		*--p = ' ';
		--p;		/* overwritten */
		*--p = '0';	/* conditionally overwritten */
		(void)_print_integer_u32(p + 2, LOAD_FRAC(avnrun[i]));
		*--p = '.';
		p = _print_integer_ul(p, LOAD_INT(avnrun[i]));
	}
 
	seq_write(m, p, buf + sizeof(buf) - p);
 	return 0;
 }


I much rather keep the first version.

-- Steve