[jira] [Created] (IMPALA-5229) Try using TCMalloc + Huge Pages for buffers

["Tim Armstrong (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Tim Armstrong created IMPALA-5229:
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             Summary: Try using TCMalloc + Huge Pages for buffers
                 Key: IMPALA-5229
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-5229
             Project: IMPALA
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Backend
    Affects Versions: Impala 2.9.0
            Reporter: Tim Armstrong
            Assignee: Tim Armstrong


As well as mmap() + huge pages, we could support TCMalloc + huge pages. I believe TCMalloc will support this well because:
* We can allocate huge-page-aligned memory via posix_memalign()
* TCMalloc, by default, always decommits large allocations upon freeing them. So if we undo the HUGEPAGE madvise() before handing the pages back to TCMalloc, then TCMalloc will decommit the huge pages backing the allocation, and we won't get TCMalloc's page heap into a weird state.

This could give us the perf benefits of huge pages without some of the headaches associated with using mmap() directly.



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