: > That seems to have the most impact. We can also expend our efforts
: > to improve dynamic linking performance, since that will improve the
: > performance of the other 99.9% of the universe.
: >
:
:What happened to mdodd's prebinding efforts?
:
:Drew
Prebinding was put into DFly but the improvement is barely noticeable
when you prebind /bin/sh. Prebinding is only really useful for much
larger programs like mozilla which have thousands or tens of thousands
of bindings. These numbers are on DragonFly and will be different on
FBsd, but the relative numbers should be similar with a FBsd prebinding
implementation.
/bin/sh
--------------
static freepg -16 zfod 12
dynamic freepg -46 zfod 34
dyn/prebind freepg -46 zfod 26 <<< saves 8*4=32KB worth of
pre-zero'd pages but does
not save any anon memory.
1000 runs of /bin/sh -c exit 0 (program to vfork/exec /bin/sh -c exit 0
1000 times). This effectively measures startup overhead only and is
not inclusive of what a script might do in addition to starting up.
/bin/sh
static 11023 zfod's 00.54s
dynamic 33023 zfod's 02.88s
dyn/prebind 25023 zfod's 02.36s
There isn't much of a time improvement but there is a significant
improvement in the number of ZFOD's with prebinding.
leaf:/usr/obj/usr/src/bin/sh# prebind /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/sh/sh
object /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/sh/sh uniqid 986137809
object /usr/lib/libedit.so.3 uniqid -1757875926
object /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 uniqid 1023436343
object /usr/lib/libc.so.4 uniqid 2011683737
Non-PLT Prebindings:
object /usr/lib/libedit.so.3 count 5
object /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 count 63
object /usr/lib/libc.so.4 count 203
PLT Prebindings:
object /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/sh/sh count 106
object /usr/lib/libedit.so.3 count 63
object /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 count 270
object /usr/lib/libc.so.4 count 638
Non-PLT COPY Prebindings:
object /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/sh/sh count 13
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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