procfs: add num_to_str() to speed up /proc/stat

== stat_check.py
num = 0
with open("/proc/stat") as f:
        while num < 1000 :
                data = f.read()
                f.seek(0, 0)
                num = num + 1
==

perf shows

    20.39%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] format_decode
    13.41%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] number
    12.61%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] vsnprintf
    10.85%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] memcpy
     4.85%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] radix_tree_lookup
     4.43%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] seq_printf

This patch removes most of calls to vsnprintf() by adding num_to_str()
and seq_print_decimal_ull(), which prints decimal numbers without rich
functions provided by printf().

On my 8cpu box.
== Before patch ==
[root@bluextal test]# time ./stat_check.py

real    0m0.150s
user    0m0.026s
sys     0m0.121s

== After patch ==
[root@bluextal test]# time ./stat_check.py

real    0m0.055s
user    0m0.022s
sys     0m0.030s

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove incorrect comment, use less statck in num_to_str(), move comment from .h to .c, simplify seq_put_decimal_ull()]
[andrea@betterlinux.com: avoid breaking the ABI in /proc/stat]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 38e612e..385c402 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -212,6 +212,26 @@ char *put_dec(char *buf, unsigned long long num)
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * Convert passed number to decimal string.
+ * Returns the length of string.  On buffer overflow, returns 0.
+ *
+ * If speed is not important, use snprintf(). It's easy to read the code.
+ */
+int num_to_str(char *buf, int size, unsigned long long num)
+{
+	char tmp[21];		/* Enough for 2^64 in decimal */
+	int idx, len;
+
+	len = put_dec(tmp, num) - tmp;
+
+	if (len > size)
+		return 0;
+	for (idx = 0; idx < len; ++idx)
+		buf[idx] = tmp[len - idx - 1];
+	return  len;
+}
+
 #define ZEROPAD	1		/* pad with zero */
 #define SIGN	2		/* unsigned/signed long */
 #define PLUS	4		/* show plus */