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Performance profiling on a 48-thread machine showed a lot of time spent
in pool_free(), precisely at the point where pool->limit was retrieved.
And the reason is simple. Some parts of the pool_head are heavily updated
only when facing a cache miss ("allocated", "used", "needed_avg"), while
others are always accessed (limit, flags, size). The fact that both
entries were stored into the same cache line makes it very difficult for
each thread to access these precious info even when working with its own
cache.
By just splitting the fields apart, a test on QUIC (which stresses pools
a lot) more than doubled performance from 42 Gbps to 96 Gbps!
Given that the patch only reorders fields and addresses such a significant
contention, it should be backported to 2.7 and 2.6.
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for : - INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy - BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use - LICENSE for the project's license - CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory : - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux - doc/management.txt for the management guide - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style - doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)