OvmfPkg: disable list length checks in NOOPT and DEBUG builds
In NOOPT and DEBUG builds, if "PcdMaximumLinkedListLength" is nonzero,
then several LIST_ENTRY *node* APIs in BaseLib compare the *full* list
length against the PCD.
This turns the time complexity of node-level APIs from constant to linear,
and that of full-list manipulations from linear to quadratic.
As an example, consider the EFI_SHELL_FILE_INFO list, which is a data
structure that's widely used in the UEFI shell. I randomly extracted 5000
files from "/usr/include" on my laptop, spanning 1095 subdirectories out
of 1538, and then ran "DIR -R" in the UEFI shell on this tree. These are
the wall-clock times:
PcdMaximumLinkedListLength PcdMaximumLinkedListLength
=1,000,000 =0
-------------------------- ---------------------------
FAT 4 min 31 s 18 s
virtio-fs 5 min 13 s 1 min 33 s
Checking list lengths against an arbitrary maximum (default: 1,000,000)
seems useless even in NOOPT and DEBUG builds, while the cost is
significant; so set the PCD to 0.
Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Cc: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
Cc: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
Cc: Sami Mujawar <sami.mujawar@arm.com>
Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3152
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
Message-Id: <
20210113085453.10168-10-lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>