Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Add support for tcmalloc

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 26.03.2015 um 04:03 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben:
> This adds "--enable-tcmalloc" and "--disable-tcmalloc" to allow linking
> to libtcmalloc from gperftools.
> 
> tcmalloc is a malloc implementation that works well with threads and is
> fast, so it is good for performance.
> 
> It is disabled by default, because the MALLOC_PERTURB_ flag we use in
> tests doesn't work with tcmalloc. However we can enable tcmalloc
> specific heap checker and profilers later.
> 
> An IOPS gain can be observed with virtio-blk-dataplane, other parts of
> QEMU will directly benefit from it as well:
> 
> ==========================================================
>                        glibc malloc
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> rw         bs         iodepth    bw     iops       latency
> read       4k         1          150    38511      24
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ==========================================================
>                          tcmalloc
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> rw         bs         iodepth    bw     iops       latency
> read       4k         1          156    39969      23
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
> ---
>  configure | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 589798e..03ba305 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ libssh2=""
>  vhdx=""
>  quorum=""
>  numa=""
> +tcmalloc="no"
>  
>  # parse CC options first
>  for opt do
> @@ -1134,6 +1135,10 @@ for opt do
>    ;;
>    --enable-numa) numa="yes"
>    ;;
> +  --disable-tcmalloc) tcmalloc="no"
> +  ;;
> +  --enable-tcmalloc) tcmalloc="yes"
> +  ;;
>    *)
>        echo "ERROR: unknown option $opt"
>        echo "Try '$0 --help' for more information"
> @@ -1407,6 +1412,8 @@ Advanced options (experts only):
>    --enable-quorum          enable quorum block filter support
>    --disable-numa           disable libnuma support
>    --enable-numa            enable libnuma support
> +  --disable-tcmalloc       disable tcmalloc support
> +  --enable-numa            enable tcmalloc support

Almost. :-)

Kevin