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[jira] [Commented] (DISPATCH-1352) qd_buffer_list_clone cost is dominated by cache misses

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Francesco Nigro commented on DISPATCH-1352:
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 !screenshot-1.png! 

This flame graph show that qd_alloc and qd_buffer_size respectively on the dst and src qd_buffer_list_t's qd_buffer_t elements are a dominant factors that steal precious cpu time.

The overall picture of this is (in violet):
 !screenshot-2.png! 

It shows that a non maxed out core thread spent a significant amount of cpu resources to perform such copy: further analysis has shown that this time is not actually spent doing somthing, but waiting cache misses.


> qd_buffer_list_clone cost is dominated by cache misses
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DISPATCH-1352
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DISPATCH-1352
>             Project: Qpid Dispatch
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Routing Engine
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.0
>            Reporter: Francesco Nigro
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: screenshot-1.png, screenshot-2.png
>
>
> qd_buffer_list_clone on qd_message_copy for qd_message_pvt_t.ma_to_override/ma_trace/ma_ingress is dominated by cache misses costs:
> * to "allocate" new qd_buffer_t
> * to reference any qd_buffer_t from the source qd_buffer_list_t
> Such cost is the main reason why the core thread is having a very low IPC (< 1 istr/cycle) and given the single threaded nature of the router while dealing with it, by solving it will bring a huge performance improvement to make the router able to scale better.



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