RFR: JDK-8326586: Improve Speed of System.map [v2]

[Gerard Ziemski]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:25:54 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> A small optimization that speeds up `jcmd pid System.map` by orders of magnitude by optimizing NMT cache lookup for sequential accesses. This cache is used to map NMT against System information - and the latter usually comes in sequential form, e.g. scanned from `/proc/<pid>/maps` or via VirtualQuery.
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>> On Linux x64, `System.map`for a JVM with an artificially bloated process space (1 million mappings) takes:
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>> before this patch: 6.3 minutes
>> with this patch: 4.2 seconds
>> 
>> which is a 87x speed improvement.
>> 
>> Ping @jdksjolen and @gerard-ziemski?
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> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   uintx->size_t

Nice optimization, I like it!

Thank you.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17984#issuecomment-1967534101