From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Kefu Chai <k.chai@proxmox.com>, pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 pve-qemu 1/2] add patch to support using tcmalloc as the memory allocator
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:53:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37844ea3-9607-4b1f-84e8-8f3bbee5500e@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260414054645.405151-2-k.chai@proxmox.com>
Am 14.04.26 um 7:45 AM schrieb Kefu Chai:
> Add allocator-aware memory release in the backup completion path:
> since tcmalloc does not provide glibc's malloc_trim(), use the
> tcmalloc-specific MallocExtension_ReleaseFreeMemory() API instead.
> This function walks tcmalloc's page heap free span lists and calls
> madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) -- it does not walk allocated memory or compact
> the heap, so latency impact is negligible.
>
> Also adds a CONFIG_TCMALLOC meson define so the conditional compilation
> in pve-backup.c can detect the allocator choice.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kefu Chai <k.chai@proxmox.com>
> Acked-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
> ---
> ...use-tcmalloc-as-the-memory-allocator.patch | 77 +++++++++++++++++++
> debian/patches/series | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 debian/patches/pve/0048-PVE-use-tcmalloc-as-the-memory-allocator.patch
The name of the patch file does not reflect the updated commit title.
>
> diff --git a/debian/patches/pve/0048-PVE-use-tcmalloc-as-the-memory-allocator.patch b/debian/patches/pve/0048-PVE-use-tcmalloc-as-the-memory-allocator.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..f8171ae
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/debian/patches/pve/0048-PVE-use-tcmalloc-as-the-memory-allocator.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
> +From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Kefu Chai <k.chai@proxmox.com>
> +Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 17:29:10 +0800
> +Subject: [PATCH] PVE-Backup: support using tcmalloc as the memory allocator
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-14 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-14 5:46 [PATCH v2 pve-qemu 0/2] Re-enable " Kefu Chai
2026-04-14 5:46 ` [PATCH v2 pve-qemu 1/2] add patch to support using " Kefu Chai
2026-04-14 9:53 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2026-04-14 5:46 ` [PATCH v2 pve-qemu 2/2] d/rules: enable " Kefu Chai
2026-04-14 11:08 ` [PATCH v2 pve-qemu 0/2] Re-enable " Fiona Ebner
2026-04-14 15:36 ` Fiona Ebner
2026-04-15 10:22 ` Kefu Chai
2026-04-17 12:33 ` Fiona Ebner
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