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[PATCH] grub-mkconfig linux: Fix quadratic algorithm for sorting menu it


From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Subject: [PATCH] grub-mkconfig linux: Fix quadratic algorithm for sorting menu items
Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 10:14:54 -0400

The current implementation of the 10_linux script implements its menu
items sorting in bash with a quadratic algorithm, calling "sed", "sort",
head, and grep to compare versions between individual lines, which is
annoyingly slow for kernel developers who can easily end up with 50-100
kernels in /boot.

As an example, on a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz, running:

  /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig > /dev/null

With 44 kernels in /boot, this command takes 10-15 seconds to complete.
After this fix, the same command runs in 5 seconds.

With 116 kernels in /boot, this command takes 40 seconds to complete.
After this fix, the same command runs in 8 seconds.

For reference, the quadratic algorithm here is:

while [ "x$list" != "x" ] ; do      <--- outer loop
  linux=`version_find_latest $list`
    version_find_latest()
      for i in "$@" ; do            <--- inner loop
        version_test_gt()
          fork+exec sed
            version_test_numeric()
              version_sort
                fork+exec sort
              fork+exec head -n 1
              fork+exec grep
  list=`echo $list | tr ' ' '\n' | fgrep -vx "$linux" | tr '\n' ' '`
    tr
    fgrep
    tr

So all commands executed under version_test_gt() are executed
O(n^2) times where n is the number of kernel images in /boot.

I notice that the same quadratic sorting is done for other supported
OSes, so I suspect similar gains can be obtained there, but I limit the
scope of this patch to Linux because this is the platform on which I can
test.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
---
 util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 util/grub.d/10_linux.in   | 12 ++++++++----
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in b/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in
index 301d1ac22..f1a09f4c9 100644
--- a/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in
+++ b/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in
@@ -218,6 +218,24 @@ version_sort ()
    esac
 }
 
+version_reverse_sort ()
+{
+  case $version_reverse_sort_sort_has_v in
+    yes)
+      LC_ALL=C sort -r -V;;
+    no)
+      LC_ALL=C sort -r -n;;
+    *)
+      if sort -r -V </dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+        version_reverse_sort_sort_has_v=yes
+        LC_ALL=C sort -r -V
+      else
+        version_reverse_sort_sort_has_v=no
+        LC_ALL=C sort -r -n
+      fi;;
+   esac
+}
+
 version_test_numeric ()
 {
   version_test_numeric_a="$1"
diff --git a/util/grub.d/10_linux.in b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
index ca068038e..23d4bb741 100644
--- a/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
+++ b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
@@ -195,9 +195,15 @@ title_correction_code=
 # yet, so it's empty. In a submenu it will be equal to '\t' (one tab).
 submenu_indentation=""
 
+# Perform a reverse version sort on the entire list.
+# Temporarily replace the '.old' suffix by ' 1' and append ' 2' for all
+# other files to order the '.old' files after their non-old counterpart
+# in reverse-sorted order.
+
+reverse_sorted_list=$(echo $list | tr ' ' '\n' | sed -e 's/$/ 2/' | sed -e 
's/.old 2/ 1/' | version_reverse_sort | sed 's/ 1$/.old/' | sed 's/ 2$//')
+
 is_top_level=true
-while [ "x$list" != "x" ] ; do
-  linux=`version_find_latest $list`
+for linux in $reverse_sorted_list; do
   gettext_printf "Found linux image: %s\n" "$linux" >&2
   basename=`basename $linux`
   dirname=`dirname $linux`
@@ -293,8 +299,6 @@ while [ "x$list" != "x" ] ; do
     linux_entry "${OS}" "${version}" recovery \
                 "${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY} ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX}"
   fi
-
-  list=`echo $list | tr ' ' '\n' | fgrep -vx "$linux" | tr '\n' ' '`
 done
 
 # If at least one kernel was found, then we need to
-- 
2.30.2




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