go-pciids

A minimal, zero-dependency library to parse pci.ids files.

Description

The library provides methods to parse the contents of a pci.ids file and export methods to query the parsed data. It has been created as a stripped down, but more performant alternative to jaypipes/pcidb. Because of this minimalistic approach only functions for parsing and querying are provided, without any extra features (see Limitations).

Limitations

The following features are not included:

• No caching
• No fetching of pci.ids via network
• No search for pci.ids files locally

Usage

Install

go get github.com/hertg/go-pciids

Parse

// you have to create a bufio.scanner yourself
filepath := "/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids"
file, _ := os.Open(filepath)
scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)

// pass the scanner to the NewDB method
db, err := pciids.NewDB(scanner)

Query

Names and labels of vendors, devices, and classes can be easily retrieved by using the Find...Label methods available inside the pciids package.

db.FindClassLabel(0x03) // 'Display controller'
db.FindSubclassLabel(0x03, 0x00) // 'VGA compatible controller'
db.FindVendorLabel(0x1002) // 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
db.FindDeviceLabel(0x1002, 0x73bf) // 'Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT]'
db.FindSubsystemLabel(0x148c, 0x2408) // 'Red Devil AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT'

The DB can also be traversed manually, see a quick overview of the DB structure.

DB
├─ vendors
│  ├─ devices
│  │  └─ subsystems
│  └─ subsystems 
├─ devices
│  └─ subsystems 
├─ subsystems
└─ classes
   └─ subclasses
      └─ progifs

Comparison

It parses the vendor, device, and class IDs directly to unsigned integers. This prevents unnecessary string allocations and significantly improves performance.

It has been found that this library parses at 2-3 times the speed while using roughly half the amount memory in comparison to jaypipes/pcidb.

goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/hertg/go-pciids/pkg/pciids
cpu: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
BenchmarkGoPCIIDS-32    	     100	  16775134 ns/op	 6400548 B/op	  116541 allocs/op
BenchmarkPCIDB-32       	      37	  29394779 ns/op	11972032 B/op	  184512 allocs/op
PASS
ok  	github.com/hertg/go-pciids/pkg/pciids	2.813s