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author | Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org> | 2014-09-16 15:48:49 -0700 |
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committer | Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org> | 2014-09-16 20:20:10 -0700 |
commit | 73053ddf3386604f19b494afd9c234ac50427d6c (patch) | |
tree | 9b11fc330277073806b73be3c075659784e239ea /samples/status.sh | |
parent | a6933f49ae9bdc8cbd5bee42920e5b9a01c21e7f (diff) | |
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Locks: Rework to avoid unnecessary display reopening
The extremely useful "Locks" plugin eats quite a lot of CPU (>2% here on a
old-ish laptop), unfortunately. The plug-in unnecessary reopens the
display, which is quite expensive operation. It results into 16 syscalls:
socket(PF_LOCAL) -> connect(sun_path=@"/tmp/.X11-unix/X0"})
-> getpeername() -> uname()
-> access(".Xauthority") -> open(".Xauthority")
-> fstat() -> mmap()
-> read() -> close()
-> munmap() -> getsockname()
-> fcntl(F_SETFD) -> fcntl(F_SETFL)
-> shutdown() -> close()
This is almost half of all the syscalls that we ought to execute for the
plug-in to work. Now, considering the useful work and that "Locks" runs
every 200 milliseconds, it gives us >300 syscalls (and a lot more
wake-ups) per second.
This commit fixes the reopening issue, effectively halving the CPU
consumption (down to ~1%). The patch also makes it easier to implement
event-driven indicators that will reduce the idle CPU consumption to 0.
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