On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:16:08 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

With large verifier speed improvement brought by the previous patch
mark_reg_read() becomes the hottest function during verification.
On a typical program it consumes 40% of cpu.
mark_reg_read() walks parentage chain of registers to mark parents as LIVE_READ.
Once the register is marked there is no need to remark it again in the future.
Hence stop walking the chain once first LIVE_READ is seen.
This optimization drops mark_reg_read() time from 40% of cpu to <1%
and overall 2x improvement of verification speed.
For some programs the longest_mark_read_walk counter improves from ~500 to ~5

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <redacted>