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Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 52608: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trunk/epan/dissectors/: packet-vlan.c


From: Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:42:30 +0000



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From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Jakub Zawadzki
Sent: den 15 oktober 2013 20:34
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 52608: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trunk/epan/dissectors/: 
packet-vlan.c

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 07:19:34AM +0200, Anders Broman wrote:
Maynard, Chris skrev 2013-10-15 00:47:
Why not add a fence so it's always visible then?

My point is that I don't want to write column info in the VLAN 
dissector to speed up dissection. If it could be arranged to only 
write the "last" entry that will actually be in the packet list or 
written out by tshark it would be much more efficient.

I was looking on it yesterday, with libffi (nice portable library!) it seems to be possible to call variadic functions 
(read: g_snprintf) with custom arguments. >We need to cache format and arguments and we could do it.

Right time no time ;|

Sounds interesting

In the reference trace I'm pursuing col_add_fstr() costs 7.52 is 
called
4,7 million times, where of 2.8 million times is from the VLAN dissector.

I'm not sure if it helps, but I micro-optimized print_columns() removing g_snprintf() & g_strlcat() [hope that I keep 
tshark output the same] in r52625.

Looking at callgrind output of some capture file of yours (TCA_SIP_performance.pcap) these calls costs 4,8M.
I hope we saved about 1-2G Ir by calling just memcpy(), could you please check in some free time?

Also looks good see the new callgrind output. Thanks!

#v+
10,589,960,094  * /home/ericsson/ewireshark/trunk/tshark.c:print_packet
 3,830,250,718  >   ???:g_snprintf (5743212x)  [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3600.0]
 1,073,058,165  >   ???:g_strlcat (12922227x)  [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3600.0]
#v-

P.S Thanks for reverting packet-vlan.c
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