gpio: sysfs: change 'value' attribute to prealloc
The GPIO 'value' attribute is time critical. A small bench with 'perf record' on the app below shows that 80% of the time spent in sysfs_kf_seq_show() is spent in memset() for zeroising the buffer. |--67.48%--sysfs_kf_seq_show | | | |--54.40%--memset | | | |--11.49%--dev_attr_show | | | | | |--10.06%--value_show | | | | | | | |--4.75%--sprintf | | | | | This patch changes the attribute type to prealloc, eliminating the need to zeroise the buffer at each read. 'perf record' gives the following result. |--42.41%--sysfs_kf_read | | | |--39.73%--dev_attr_show | | | | | |--38.23%--value_show | | | | | | | |--29.22%--sprintf | | | | | Test done with the following small app: int main(int argc, char **argv) { int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY); for (;;) { int buf[512]; read(fd, buf, 512); lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET); } exit(0); } Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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