Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] various optimizations

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On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 03:57:25PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 04:51:14PM +0200, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> > "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > I'd suggest using oprofile or sysprof to collect data on exactly
> > > where our cputime is disappearing to before trying to optimize
> > > further.
> > 
> > 
> > I've seen that creating and accessing many gobjects, as this chunk of
> > code in osinfo_loader.c does, takes a lot of cputime:
> > 
> >                 OsinfoDevice *dev = osinfo_loader_get_device(loader, id);
> >                 osinfo_entity_set_param(OSINFO_ENTITY(dev),
> >                                         OSINFO_DEVICE_PROP_VENDOR_ID,
> >                                         vendor_id);
> >                 osinfo_entity_set_param(OSINFO_ENTITY(dev),
> >                                         OSINFO_DEVICE_PROP_VENDOR,
> >                                         vendor);
> >                 osinfo_entity_set_param(OSINFO_ENTITY(dev),
> >                                         OSINFO_DEVICE_PROP_PRODUCT_ID,
> >                                         device_id);
> >                 osinfo_entity_set_param(OSINFO_ENTITY(dev),
> >                                         OSINFO_DEVICE_PROP_PRODUCT,
> >                                         device);
> >                 osinfo_entity_set_param(OSINFO_ENTITY(dev),
> >                                         OSINFO_DEVICE_PROP_BUS_TYPE,
> >                                         busType);
> 
> So that basically comes down to the performance of the hash
> table inserts. I wonder if we could make use of GQuark and/or
> g_intern_string so that the hash table lookup can do a straight
> pointer or int comparison, instead of strcmp. }?

The call to osinfo_loader_get_device() can also hide a g_object_new(),
which can be heavy.

Christophe

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