sh: Optimise FDE/CIE lookup by using red-black trees
authorMatt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:40:36 +0000 (12:40 +0000)
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:29:15 +0000 (11:29 +0900)
commit858918b77b29d0e9ce7f524d1b57d602d85f5d64
treec6e25bdb8f68d3911f24335379e69c981fb38338
parent1af0b2fc676009d9b5b71a82ea6a3c2b20b7ea56
sh: Optimise FDE/CIE lookup by using red-black trees

Now that the DWARF unwinder is being used to provide perf callstacks
unwinding speed is an issue. It is no longer being used in exceptional
circumstances where we don't care about runtime performance, e.g. when
panicing, so it makes sense improve performance is possible.

With this patch I saw a 42% improvement in unwind time when calling
return_address(1). Greater improvements will be seen as the number of
levels unwound increases as each unwind is now cheaper.

Note that insertion time has doubled but that's just the price we pay
for keeping the trees balanced. However, this is a one-time cost for
kernel boot/module load and so the improvements in lookup time dominate
the extra time we spend keeping the trees balanced.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
arch/sh/include/asm/dwarf.h
arch/sh/include/asm/module.h
arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c