bigfile: Basic benchmarks
- for virtual memory subsytem - for ZBigFiles They are not currently great, e.g. for virtmem we have in-kernel overhead of page clearing - in perf profiles, for bigfile_mmap compared to file_read kernel's clear_page_c raises significantly. That is the worker for clearing page memory and we currently cannot avoid that - any memory obtained from kernel (MAP_ANONYMOUS, mmap(file) with hole, etc...) comes pre-initialized to zeros to userspace. This can be seen in the benchmarks as well: file_readbig differs from file_read in only that the latter uses 1 small buffer and the first allocates large memory (cleared by kernel + python does the memset). bigfile/tests/bench_virtmem.py@125::bench_file_mmap_adler32 0.47 (0.86 0.49 0.47) bigfile/tests/bench_virtmem.py@126::bench_file_read_adler32 0.69 (1.11 0.71 0.69) bigfile/tests/bench_virtmem.py@127::bench_file_readbig_adler32 1.41 (1.70 1.42 1.41) bigfile/tests/bench_virtmem.py@128::bench_bigfile_mmap_adler32 1.42 (1.45 1.42 1.51) bigfile/tests/bench_virtmem.py@130::bench_file_mmap_md5 1.52 (1.91 1.54 1.52) bigfile/tests/bench_virtmem.py@131::bench_file_read_md5 1.73 (2.10 1.75 1.73) bigfile/tests/bench_virtmem.py@132::bench_file_readbig_md5 2.44 (2.73 2.46 2.44) bigfile/tests/bench_virtmem.py@133::bench_bigfile_mmap_md5 2.40 (2.48 2.40 2.53) There is MAP_UNINITIALIZED which works only for non-mmu targets and only if explicitly allowed when configuring kernel (off by default). There were patches to disable that pages zeroing, as it gives significant speedup for people's workloads, e.g. [1,2] but all of them did not got merged for security reasons. [1] http://marc.info/?t=132691315900001&r=1&w=2 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/548926 ~~~~ For ZBigFile - it is the storage who is dominating in profiles.
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