After output/sort fields refactoring, it's expensive
to check the elide bool in its current location inside
the 'struct sort_entry'.
The perf_hpp__should_skip function gets highly noticable in
workloads with high number of output/sort fields, like for:
$ perf report -i perf-test.data -F overhead,sample,period,comm,pid,dso,symbol,cpu --stdio
Performance report:
9.70% perf [.] perf_hpp__should_skip
Moving the elide bool into the 'struct perf_hpp_fmt', which
makes the perf_hpp__should_skip just single struct read.
Got speedup of around 22% for my test perf.data workload.
The change should not harm any other workload types.
Performance counter stats for (10 runs):
before:
358,319,732,626 cycles ( +- 0.55% )
467,129,581,515 instructions # 1.30 insns per cycle ( +- 0.00% )
150.943975206 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.62% )
now:
278,785,972,990 cycles ( +- 0.12% )
370,146,797,640 instructions # 1.33 insns per cycle ( +- 0.00% )
116.416670507 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.31% )
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140601142622.GA9131@krava.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>