mm/vmalloc: use rb_tree instead of list for vread() lookups
vread() has been linearly searching vmap_area_list for looking up vmalloc
areas to read from. These same areas are also tracked by a rb_tree
(vmap_area_root) which offers logarithmic lookup.
This patch modifies vread() to use the rb_tree structure instead of the
list and the speedup for heavy /proc/kcore readers can be pretty
significant. Below are the wall clock measurements of a Python
application that leverages the drgn debugging library to read and
interpret data read from /proc/kcore.
Before the patch:
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$ time sudo sdb -e 'dbuf | head 3000 | wc'
(unsigned long)3000
real 0m22.446s
user 0m2.321s
sys 0m20.690s
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With the patch:
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$ time sudo sdb -e 'dbuf | head 3000 | wc'
(unsigned long)3000
real 0m2.104s
user 0m2.043s
sys 0m0.921s
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Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210209190253.108763-1-serapheim@delphix.com
Signed-off-by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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