Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] dso/dsos memory savings and clean up

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 11:42:02PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> 12 more patches from:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240202061532.1939474-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
> a near half year old adventure in trying to lower perf's dynamic
> memory use. Bits like the memory overhead of opendir are on the
> sidelines for now, too much fighting over how
> distributions/C-libraries present getdents. These changes are more
> good old fashioned replace an rb-tree with a sorted array and add
> reference count tracking.
> 
> The changes migrate dsos code, the collection of dso structs, more
> into the dsos.c/dsos.h files. As with maps and threads, this is done
> so the internals can be changed - replacing a linked list (for fast
> iteration) and an rb-tree (for fast finds) with a lazily sorted
> array. The complexity of operations remain roughly the same, although
> iterating an array is likely faster than iterating a linked list, the
> memory usage is at least reduce by half.

Got the first 5 patches, would be nice if more people could review it,
I'll try and get back to is soon.

- Arnaldo