From 7b01cb974f1093885c40bf4d0d3e78e27e531363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandre Derumier Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:56:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] configure: Add support for jemalloc This adds "--enable-jemalloc" and "--disable-jemalloc" to allow linking to jemalloc memory allocator. We have already tcmalloc support, but it seem to not working well with a lot of iothreads/disks. The main problem is that tcmalloc use a shared thread cache of 16MB by default. With more threads, this cache is shared, and some bad garbage collections can occur if the cache is too low. It's possible to tcmalloc cache increase it with a env var: TCMALLOC_MAX_TOTAL_THREAD_CACHE_BYTES=256MB With default 16MB, performances are really bad with more than 2 disks. Increasing to 256MB, it's helping but still have problem with 16 disks/iothreads. Jemalloc don't have performance problem with default configuration. Here the benchmark results in iops of 1 qemu vm randread 4K iodepth=32, with rbd block backend (librbd is doing a lot of memory allocation), 1 iothread by disk glibc malloc ------------ 1 disk 29052 2 disks 55878 4 disks 127899 8 disks 240566 15 disks 269976 jemalloc -------- 1 disk 41278 2 disks 75781 4 disks 195351 8 disks 294241 15 disks 298199 tcmalloc 2.2.1 default 16M cache -------------------------------- 1 disk 37911 2 disks 67698 4 disks 41076 8 disks 43312 15 disks 37569 tcmalloc : 256M cache --------------------------- 1 disk 33914 2 disks 58839 4 disks 148205 8 disks 213298 15 disks 218383 Signed-off-by: Alexandre Derumier Message-Id: <1434711418-20429-1-git-send-email-aderumier@odiso.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- configure | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 34e49b4c8c..5332482f1f 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ libssh2="" vhdx="" numa="" tcmalloc="no" +jemalloc="no" # parse CC options first for opt do @@ -1143,6 +1144,10 @@ for opt do ;; --enable-tcmalloc) tcmalloc="yes" ;; + --disable-jemalloc) jemalloc="no" + ;; + --enable-jemalloc) jemalloc="yes" + ;; *) echo "ERROR: unknown option $opt" echo "Try '$0 --help' for more information" @@ -1367,6 +1372,7 @@ disabled with --disable-FEATURE, default is enabled if available: vhdx support for the Microsoft VHDX image format numa libnuma support tcmalloc tcmalloc support + jemalloc jemalloc support NOTE: The object files are built at the place where configure is launched EOF @@ -3367,6 +3373,11 @@ EOF fi fi +if test "$tcmalloc" = "yes" && test "$jemalloc" = "yes" ; then + echo "ERROR: tcmalloc && jemalloc can't be used at the same time" + exit 1 +fi + ########################################## # tcmalloc probe @@ -3383,6 +3394,22 @@ EOF fi fi +########################################## +# jemalloc probe + +if test "$jemalloc" = "yes" ; then + cat > $TMPC << EOF +#include +int main(void) { malloc(1); return 0; } +EOF + + if compile_prog "" "-ljemalloc" ; then + LIBS="-ljemalloc $LIBS" + else + feature_not_found "jemalloc" "install jemalloc devel" + fi +fi + ########################################## # signalfd probe signalfd="no" @@ -4594,6 +4621,7 @@ echo "snappy support $snappy" echo "bzip2 support $bzip2" echo "NUMA host support $numa" echo "tcmalloc support $tcmalloc" +echo "jemalloc support $jemalloc" if test "$sdl_too_old" = "yes"; then echo "-> Your SDL version is too old - please upgrade to have SDL support"