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From: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: SElinux list <selinux@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Carter <jwcart2@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH userspace v2] libsepol: cache ebitmap cardinality value
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:51:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFqZXNtpqOszQ5a2s86TTHtQGK_c+vqmtaRPBv04+vFAqExEmg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a11d058-eee1-41c5-9686-da01ecf6ea33@tycho.nsa.gov>

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 6:37 PM Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> On 2/13/20 8:39 AM, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> > According to profiling of semodule -BN, ebitmap_cardinality() is called
> > quite often and contributes a lot to the total runtime. Cache its result
> > in the ebitmap struct to reduce this overhead. The cached value is
> > invalidated on most modifying operations, but ebitmap_cardinality() is
> > usually called once the ebitmap doesn't change any more.
> >
> > After this patch, the time to do 'semodule -BN' on Fedora Rawhide has
> > decreased from ~14.6s to ~12.4s (2.2s saved).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
>
> This seems fine but I was wondering how many of the callers of
> ebitmap_cardinality() actually need anything more than ebitmap_length()?

The caller that calls it the most (>99%) during a 'semodule -B' is
__cil_should_expand_attribute(), which logically needs the actual
cardinality. It might be possible to cache the decision directly in
'struct cil_typeattribute', but I don't know the CIL code well enough
to attempt that...

-- 
Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace at redhat dot com>
Software Engineer, Security Technologies
Red Hat, Inc.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-14 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-13 13:39 [PATCH userspace v2] libsepol: cache ebitmap cardinality value Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-02-14 17:38 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-14 18:20   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-14 19:51   ` Ondrej Mosnacek [this message]
2020-02-14 19:57     ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-14 20:19     ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-02-18 15:22 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-02-18 15:41   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-18 16:01     ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-02-25 21:24       ` Nicolas Iooss
2020-02-25 21:56         ` William Roberts
2020-02-26 13:23           ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-02-26 15:39             ` William Roberts

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