trace-load: improve trace load lookup #688

alexmohr · 2024-10-16T15:17:49Z

Store trace load in context of doing a search on each message.

The increased load was detected by our performance team.
Please note that our internal version is not building on master but a previous release, thus I had to adjust the patch a little.
I wanted to upstream this change asap although it needs to go through some final verification on our end because it is a very important amendment to the existing implementation and should be a huge from a performance viewpoint.

@minminlittleshrimp Please review this and also give it a test in your setup.

I'll be on vacation starting at the end of next week, so response times will be a lot longer than usual and I won't be able to make changes before my return at the start of December.
Furthermore I will be switching Teams internally at the start of next year, so this might be one of my last contributions for some time.
It has been really fun working together with you :)

solves #685

alexmohr · 2024-10-16T16:23:58Z

quick side note on these changes:

strncpy(daemon.preconfigured_trace_load_settings[0].apid, "APP0", DLT_ID_SIZE);

while not strictly required with the compiler used in the pipeline it crashed locally with the following gcc version

gcc (Ubuntu 10.5.0-1ubuntu1~20.04) 10.5.0
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Issue-ID: APRICOT-631667 Signed-off-by: Alexander Mohr <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Alexander Mohr <[email protected]>

Bichdao021195 · 2024-10-30T10:32:17Z

Store trace load in context of doing a search on each message.

The increased load was detected by our performance team. Please note that our internal version is not building on master but a previous release, thus I had to adjust the patch a little. I wanted to upstream this change asap although it needs to go through some final verification on our end because it is a very important amendment to the existing implementation and should be a huge from a performance viewpoint.

@minminlittleshrimp Please review this and also give it a test in your setup.

I'll be on vacation starting at the end of next week, so response times will be a lot longer than usual and I won't be able to make changes before my return at the start of December. Furthermore I will be switching Teams internally at the start of next year, so this might be one of my last contributions for some time. It has been really fun working together with you :)

solves #685

Hi @alexmohr
Thanks for your pull request. Can you provide the example steps how to verify the trace load improvement with your code change if it's possible?

Bichdao021195 · 2024-10-31T10:41:53Z

Store trace load in context of doing a search on each message.

The increased load was detected by our performance team. Please note that our internal version is not building on master but a previous release, thus I had to adjust the patch a little. I wanted to upstream this change asap although it needs to go through some final verification on our end because it is a very important amendment to the existing implementation and should be a huge from a performance viewpoint.

@minminlittleshrimp Please review this and also give it a test in your setup.

I'll be on vacation starting at the end of next week, so response times will be a lot longer than usual and I won't be able to make changes before my return at the start of December. Furthermore I will be switching Teams internally at the start of next year, so this might be one of my last contributions for some time. It has been really fun working together with you :)

solves #685

Hi @alexmohr
I noticed that the trace load setting address is stored in the DLT context, allowing searches on each message using the dlt_daemon_context_find API instead of directly calling dlt_find_runtime_trace_load_setting. Could you please explain why this approach helps reduce CPU load? Because we still need to search the context on each message for using trace load setting .

alexmohr · 2024-10-31T16:27:25Z

Testing can be done the same as the original Pr. i can't provide better tests at the moment because I'm not in office until December.

Using this approach is faster because this api is using qsearch instead of a linear search. Most improvements are on clients side though where total number of search operations are reduced drastically by storing the trace load limits in the context.

Bichdao021195 · 2024-11-05T06:15:45Z

src/lib/dlt_user.c

-                    dlt_find_runtime_trace_load_settings(
+                dlt_ll_ts_type* ll_ts = &dlt_user.dlt_ll_ts[log->handle->log_level_pos];
+                if (ll_ts->trace_load_settings == NULL) {
+                    ll_ts->trace_load_settings = dlt_find_runtime_trace_load_settings(


The trace load settings should be check null before accessing

Can you elaborate on this? Null check for tl settings is above and this if is only executed when it is null

Do you mean checking ll_ts for null? I think that check would be superfluous

After carefully checking, it is superfluous to check ll_ts->trace_load_settings null. Because this pointer already check null and print log inside func "dlt_check_trace_load"

Bichdao021195 · 2024-11-05T06:48:33Z

src/daemon/dlt_daemon_common.h

@@ -162,7 +162,10 @@ typedef struct
    int user_handle;    /**< connection handle for connection to user application */
    char *context_description; /**< context description */
    int8_t storage_log_level; /**< log level set for offline logstorage */
-    bool predefined; /**< set to true if this context is predefined by runtime configuration file */
+    bool predefined;


"Could you explain the purpose of removing the comment of the bool predefined variable? If it was removed intentionally, kindly please consider reverting this line if it is not necessary."

Was not used as far I could tell, but maybe missed something?

Bichdao021195 · 2024-11-05T06:48:43Z

src/daemon/dlt-daemon.c

@@ -1636,6 +1636,13 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    dlt_gateway_deinit(&daemon_local.pGateway, daemon_local.flags.vflag);

    dlt_daemon_free(&daemon, daemon_local.flags.vflag);
+#ifdef DLT_TRACE_LOAD_CTRL_ENABLE


Those lines of code should be warped in 1 function like "dlt_traceload_free"

Will do, once I'm back in office in December :)

Bichdao021195 · 2024-11-05T06:51:02Z

src/lib/dlt_user.c

@@ -1308,6 +1306,15 @@ DltReturnValue dlt_register_app(const char *apid, const char *description)

 #ifdef DLT_TRACE_LOAD_CTRL_ENABLE
    strncpy(trace_load_settings[0].apid, dlt_user.appID, DLT_ID_SIZE);
+    if (!trace_load_context.contextID[0])


It is make sense to register special context inside dlt_register_app. Because dlt_register_app api serve for register app purpose.

It is required, as logging without calling the register api first is technically possible and is happening within our project and this change is implemented in a way that is fully compliant with existing code

alexmohr force-pushed the improve-trace-load branch from 8297782 to d4b2bf7 Compare October 16, 2024 16:19

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alexmohr force-pushed the improve-trace-load branch from d4b2bf7 to 15ed64f Compare October 16, 2024 19:26

tests: fix unit tests on gcc15

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Issue-ID: APRICOT-631667 Signed-off-by: Alexander Mohr <[email protected]>

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trace-load: improve lookup speeds and reduce cpu load caused

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