Bug 102866 – Chromium should use TCMalloc on Mac to go fast

• Component: New Bugs
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Adam Barth]

Chromium should use TCMalloc on Mac to go fast

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158645

[Adam Barth]

Created attachment 175330 [details]
Patch

[Adam Barth]

Created attachment 175364 [details]
dom-modify results (first three without patch; last three with patch)

This appears to be a 5-10% win on dom-modify, which is a fairly allocation heavy benchmark.  I haven't run any other benchmarks.  It might be worth landing this patch experimentally and seeing its effect on the perf bots.

[Adam Barth]

Created attachment 175374 [details]
Patch

[Adam Barth]

One thing we need to check here is whether we still crash on failed allocations for objects that don't override operator new.  If not, we might need to create a new configuration that uses the system malloc for the global operators but not for the per-class operators.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Comment on attachment 175374 [details]
Patch

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=175374&action=review

> Source/WTF/ChangeLog:21
> +        Fortunately, WebKit has a mechanism for selectively enablin TCMalloc

enabling

> Source/WTF/wtf/Platform.h:581
> + * WebKit isn't memory tight.

"memory tight" is not the most descriptive phrase.  :)

> Source/WTF/wtf/Platform.h:593
> + * FIXME: I believe there is actually an extra branch in malloc in this configuration
> + * because our "system" malloc already crashes on failed allocations. There's no need
> + * for the branch in the USE(SYSTEM_MALLOC) implementation of fastMalloc that crashes
> + * on failed allocations.

You should just file a bug and link to it.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Thank you for following up with this.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

You might want to announce this on chromium-dev, as it may confuse some.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> One thing we need to check here is whether we still crash on failed allocations for objects that don't override operator new.  If not, we might need to create a new configuration that uses the system malloc for the global operators but not for the per-class operators.

Yup.  Easy to test with a gtest:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6569713/testing-for-crash-with-google-test

[Adam Barth]

Comment on attachment 175374 [details]
Patch

cq- pending death test.

[Ojan Vafai]

I support landing this and seeing what happens on the perf bots.

[Adam Barth]

This bug is related to bug 103027, which is about optimizing malloc on Windows.

[Adam Barth]

Based on some discussion in bug 103027, it looks like http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/base/process_util_mac.mm is how Chromium causes the process to crash on out-of-memory, so the branch in fastMalloc is redundant on Mac as well as Windows.

[Adam Barth]

We need to test to make sure chromium-mac crashes on out-of-memory with this patch, but if it does, it sounds like this patch is correct.

[Adam Barth]

Created attachment 175873 [details]
Patch for landing

[Adam Barth]

Comment on attachment 175873 [details]
Patch for landing

Clearing flags on attachment: 175873

Committed r135666: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/135666>

[Adam Barth]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.

[Adam Barth]

As expected, there was a 10% improvement in dom-modify:

http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/dromaeo_domcoremodify/report.html?history=100&rev=169394

intl1 also got faster by 7.5%:

http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/intl1/report.html?history=100&rev=169394

intl2 also got faster by 4.5%:

http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/intl2/report.html?history=100&rev=169394

dom-perf improved by 9%:

http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/dom_perf/report.html?history=100&rev=169394

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

I'm glad this worked out so well. Thanks for taking this on. I suspect we'll want to investigate how to use chromium's copy of tcmalloc directly (eventually).

[Ojan Vafai]

3% improvement: http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/dromaeo_domcoretraverse/report.html?rev=169690&graph=dom_traverse_previousSibling&trace=score&history=150

8% improvement: http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/dromaeo_jslibeventjquery/report.html?rev=169690&graph=jslib_event_jquery_jQuery___trigger&trace=score&history=150

25% improvement:
http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/dromaeo_jslibstylejquery/report.html?rev=169690&graph=jslib_style_jquery_jQuery____is__visible_&trace=score&history=150

http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/dromaeo_jslibstylejquery/report.html?rev=169693&graph=jslib_style_jquery_jQuery____show__&trace=score&history=150

http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/dromaeo_jslibstylejquery/report.html?rev=169693&graph=jslib_style_jquery_jQuery___width___x10&trace=score&history=150

7% improvement: http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/mac-release-10.6-webkit-latest/moz/report.html?rev=169690&graph=times&trace=t_extwr&history=150

[James Robinson]

7.4% improvement: http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/gpu-mac-release-intel/gpu_throughput/report.html?rev=169724&graph=many_images&trace=gpu_thread&history=150

[Ryosuke Niwa]

12% improvement on Animation/balls:
http://webkit-perf.appspot.com/graph.html#tests=[[3976565,2001,3001]]&sel=1353810236487.3518,1353841390292.866,32.294862429997565,37.20112003895788&displayrange=90&datatype=running

[Ryosuke Niwa]

6.7% on html5-full-render.html as well:
http://webkit-perf.appspot.com/graph.html#tests=[[3068,2001,32196],[3068,2001,7288486],[3068,2001,3001]]&sel=1353762378720.7466,1353879008367.7524,3796.4345053622596,4262.170346323358&displayrange=30&datatype=running