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From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Kefu Chai <k.chai@proxmox.com>, pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH pve-qemu 2/2] d/rules: enable tcmalloc as the memory allocator
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:13:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b5df6ab-0efe-4c61-90e4-6c34d41bc12f@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260410043027.3621673-3-k.chai@proxmox.com>

Am 10.04.26 um 6:29 AM schrieb Kefu Chai:
> 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,

Please also add the runtime dependency to Depends:

> 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 \





  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-13 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ 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
2026-04-13 13:12   ` Fiona Ebner
2026-04-10  4:30 ` [PATCH pve-qemu 2/2] d/rules: enable " Kefu Chai
2026-04-13 13:13   ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2026-04-13 13:23     ` DERUMIER, Alexandre
2026-04-13 13:40       ` Fabian Grünbichler
2026-04-14  8:10         ` Fiona Ebner
2026-04-10  8:12 ` [PATCH pve-qemu 0/2] Re-enable " Fiona Ebner
2026-04-10 10:45   ` DERUMIER, Alexandre
2026-04-13  8:14     ` Fiona Ebner
2026-04-13 11:13       ` Kefu Chai
2026-04-13 13:14         ` DERUMIER, Alexandre
2026-04-13 13:18         ` Fiona Ebner
2026-04-14  5:41           ` Kefu Chai
2026-04-14  5:48 ` superseded: " Kefu Chai

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