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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 49644: /trunk/epan/ /trunk/epan/: pr

From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:52:39 +0200
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:33:46PM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> On 05/31/13 12:59, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> > Has anyone performed some benchmarks before/after this patch? :)
> 
> It appears to have a fairly negligible effect.  Here's a comparison 
> using tools/test-captures.sh (on a pool of files):
> [...] 
> 
> (That's about a 0.46% increase.)
> 
> And here's one focusing just on the "no tree" case:
>
> [...]
> 
> (That's about a 1.36% increase.)

my tests shows about 4% (compiled with -O1)

ten times: 
$ tshark -r /tmp/b.pcap -n > /dev/null

r49643 avg: 1m40.054s
r49652 avg: 1m44.134s

$ capinfos  /tmp/b.pcap    
Number of packets:   7284 k
File size:           944 MB

perf tool shows ~ 2% total overhead

$ perf record tshark -r /tmp/b.pcap -n > /dev/null
$ perf report

11.69%   tshark  libc-2.16.so             [.] vfprintf                              
10.97%   tshark  libc-2.16.so             [.] 0x000000000007de90                    
 5.09%   tshark  libc-2.16.so             [.] _IO_default_xsputn                    
 2.41%   tshark  libwireshark.so.0.0.0    [.] ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_next      
...
 1.63%   tshark  libwireshark.so.0.0.0    [.] get_hfi_and_length                    
...
 0.39%   tshark  libwireshark.so.0.0.0    [.] test_length                           

Ok, let's leave it :)

Cheers,
Jakub.