| Message ID | 75893F05AB419D468E0D150A71FCA0C30BB60922@G9W0339.americas.hpqcorp.net |
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| State | Accepted |
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Rodriguez Betancourt, Esteban < estebarb@hpe.com> wrote: > Change installing documentation to suggest to use > jemalloc memory allocator. > > This memory allocator showed great performance gains > when used at ovsdb-server and other components. > > Signed-off-by: Esteban Rodriguez Betancourt <estebarb@hpe.com> > This commit is also adding another travis-ci scenario but doesn't mention it. It's probably not worth another revision just for that, but may be worth adding if you need to update the commit for some other reason.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:29:57PM +0000, Rodriguez Betancourt, Esteban wrote: > Change installing documentation to suggest to use > jemalloc memory allocator. > > This memory allocator showed great performance gains > when used at ovsdb-server and other components. > > Signed-off-by: Esteban Rodriguez Betancourt <estebarb@hpe.com> Applied, thanks!
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml index 2b262e4..6618073 100644 --- a/.travis.yml +++ b/.travis.yml @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ addons: - gcc-multilib - libssl-dev - llvm-dev + - libjemalloc1 + - libjemalloc-dev before_install: ./.travis/prepare.sh @@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ env: - KERNEL=3.14.60 - KERNEL=3.12.53 - KERNEL=3.10.96 + - TESTSUITE=1 LIBS=-ljemalloc script: ./.travis/build.sh $OPTS diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 9dadcee..fa7b40e 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -247,6 +247,13 @@ Here is an example: `% mkdir _gcc && (cd _gcc && ../configure CC=gcc)` `% mkdir _clang && (cd _clang && ../configure CC=clang)` +Under certains loads the ovsdb-server and other components perform +better when using the jemalloc memory allocator, instead of the GLibC +memory allocator. + +If you wish to link with jemalloc add it to LIBS: + + `% ./configure LIBS=-ljemalloc` Building the Sources --------------------
Change installing documentation to suggest to use jemalloc memory allocator. This memory allocator showed great performance gains when used at ovsdb-server and other components. Signed-off-by: Esteban Rodriguez Betancourt <estebarb@hpe.com> --- .travis.yml | 3 +++ INSTALL.md | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)