[review,v2] Create a correctly-sized demangled names hashtable

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Simon Marchi (Code Review) Nov. 20, 2019, 5:33 a.m. UTC
  Change URL: https://gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io/r/c/binutils-gdb/+/686
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Create a correctly-sized demangled names hashtable

If we have a minsym count, we know the demangled names hashtable will
be at least that big.  So use that count to size it, so we don't
have to resize/rehash it as much.

This is a 6% improvement in minsym loading time.

2019-11-18  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>

	* symtab.c (create_demangled_names_hash): Use per_bfd->
	minimal_symbol_count as the initial size, if greater than
	our default size.

Change-Id: I1f074d38e1d90af58705ec852f90c84cc034cd2e
---
M gdb/symtab.c
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/gdb/symtab.c b/gdb/symtab.c
index 3502827..e9dcc06 100644
--- a/gdb/symtab.c
+++ b/gdb/symtab.c
@@ -769,10 +769,20 @@ 
   /* Choose 256 as the starting size of the hash table, somewhat arbitrarily.
      The hash table code will round this up to the next prime number.
      Choosing a much larger table size wastes memory, and saves only about
-     1% in symbol reading.  */
+     1% in symbol reading.  However, if the minsym count is already
+     initialized (e.g. because symbol name setting was deferred to
+     a background thread) we can initialize the hashtable with a count
+     based on that, because we will almost certainly have at least that
+     many entries.  If we have a nonzero number but less than 256,
+     we still stay with 256 to have some space for psymbols, etc.  */
+
+  /* htab will expand the table when it is 3/4th full, so we account for that
+     here.  +2 to round up.  */
+  int minsym_based_count = (per_bfd->minimal_symbol_count + 2) / 3 * 4;
+  int count = std::max (per_bfd->minimal_symbol_count, minsym_based_count);
 
   per_bfd->demangled_names_hash.reset (htab_create_alloc
-    (256, hash_demangled_name_entry, eq_demangled_name_entry,
+    (count, hash_demangled_name_entry, eq_demangled_name_entry,
      free_demangled_name_entry, xcalloc, xfree));
 }