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From: Kefu Chai <k.chai@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH pve-qemu 2/2] d/rules: enable tcmalloc as the memory allocator
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:30:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260410043027.3621673-3-k.chai@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260410043027.3621673-1-k.chai@proxmox.com>

Use tcmalloc (from gperftools) instead of glibc's allocator for
improved performance with workloads that create many small, short-lived
allocations -- particularly Ceph/librbd I/O paths. Ceph benchmarks
show ~50% IOPS improvement on 16KB random reads.

tcmalloc was originally used in 2015 but removed due to tuning issues
with gperftools 2.2. PVE 9 ships gperftools 2.16, where those issues
are long resolved.

Signed-off-by: Kefu Chai <k.chai@proxmox.com>
---
 debian/control | 1 +
 debian/rules   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 81cc026..a3121e1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                libfuse3-dev,
                libgbm-dev,
                libgnutls28-dev,
+               libgoogle-perftools-dev,
                libiscsi-dev (>= 1.12.0),
                libjpeg-dev,
                libjson-perl,
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index c90db29..a63e3a5 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ endif
 	    --enable-libusb \
 	    --enable-linux-aio \
 	    --enable-linux-io-uring \
+	    --enable-malloc=tcmalloc \
 	    --enable-numa \
 	    --enable-opengl \
 	    --enable-rbd \
-- 
2.47.3





  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-10  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-10  4:30 [PATCH pve-qemu 0/2] Re-enable " Kefu Chai
2026-04-10  4:30 ` [PATCH pve-qemu 1/2] PVE: use " Kefu Chai
2026-04-10  4:30 ` Kefu Chai [this message]
2026-04-10  8:12 ` [PATCH pve-qemu 0/2] Re-enable " Fiona Ebner
2026-04-10 10:45   ` DERUMIER, Alexandre

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