perf session: Cache sample objects

When the sample queue is flushed we free the sample reference objects. Though
we need to malloc new objects when we process further. Stop the malloc/free
orgy and cache the already allocated object for resuage. Only allocate when
the cache is empty.

Performance gain: ~ 10%

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.338488630@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.h b/tools/perf/util/session.h
index a00f32ed1c79..e4a7ff2ba8d5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct ordered_samples {
         u64                     next_flush;
         u64                     max_timestamp;
         struct list_head        samples;
+        struct list_head        sample_cache;
         struct sample_queue     *last_sample;
 };