Re: [PATCH userspace v2] libsepol: cache ebitmap cardinality value

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On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:40 PM Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/18/20 10:22 AM, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:40 PM Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> 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).
> >
> > I have no idea why, but I'm now getting completely different times
> > (10.9s vs. 8.9s) with the same builds on the same setup... I can no
> > longer reproduce the slower times anywhere (F31/locally/...) so I have
> > to assume it was some kind of glitch. Since the numbers show a similar
> > magnitude of speed-up (and they depend on a bunch of HW/SW factors
> > anyway), I'm not going to do another respin. The applying person (most
> > likely Stephen) is free to fix the numbers when applying if they wish
> > to do so.
>
> Thanks, applied with fixed times (although I don't really think it
> matters very much).  Maybe you're also picking up the difference from
> the "libsepol/cil: remove unnecessary hash tables" change.

No, that was actually the reason for the first correction.

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




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