[PATCH v1 0/3] Metric related performance improvements

[Ian Rogers]

The "PMU JSON event tests" have been running slowly, these changes
target improving them with an improvement of the test running 8 to 10
times faster.

The first patch changes from searching through all aliases by name in
a list to using a hashmap. Doing a fast hashmap__find means testing
for having an event needn't load from disk if an event is already
present.

The second patch switch the fncache to use a hashmap rather than its
own hashmap with a limited number of buckets. When there are many
filename queries, such as with a test, there are many collisions with
the previous fncache approach leading to linear searching of the
entries.

The final patch adds a find function for metrics. Normally metrics can
match by name and group, however, only name matching happens when one
metric refers to another. As we test every "id" in a metric to see if
it is a metric, the find function can dominate performance as it
linearly searches all metrics. Add a find function for the metrics
table so that a metric can be found by name with a binary search.

Before these changes:
```
$ time perf test -v 10
 10: PMU JSON event tests                                            :
 10.1: PMU event table sanity                                        : Ok
 10.2: PMU event map aliases                                         : Ok
 10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics                            : Ok
 10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs             : Ok
 10.5: Parsing of metric thresholds with fake PMUs                   : Ok

real    0m18.499s
user    0m18.150s
sys     0m3.273s
```

After these changes:
```
$ time perf test -v 10
 10: PMU JSON event tests                                            :
 10.1: PMU event table sanity                                        : Ok
 10.2: PMU event map aliases                                         : Ok
 10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics                            : Ok
 10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs             : Ok
 10.5: Parsing of metric thresholds with fake PMUs                   : Ok

real    0m2.338s
user    0m1.797s
sys     0m2.186s
```

Ian Rogers (3):
  perf pmu: Change aliases from list to hashmap
  perf fncache: Switch to using hashmap
  perf metricgroup: Binary search when resolving referred to metrics

 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c                |   6 +-
 tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c |  66 ++++++++-
 tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py         |  66 ++++++++-
 tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h       |  23 +++-
 tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c            | 129 +++++++++--------
 tools/perf/util/fncache.c                |  69 +++++-----
 tools/perf/util/fncache.h                |   1 -
 tools/perf/util/hwmon_pmu.c              |  43 +++---
 tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c            | 102 ++++++--------
 tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h            |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/pmu.c                    | 167 +++++++++++++++--------
 tools/perf/util/pmu.h                    |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/srccode.c                |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/tool_pmu.c               |  17 +--
 14 files changed, 430 insertions(+), 269 deletions(-)

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