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* [PATCH] Using mimalloc to improve performance and reduce memory allocation lock contention
@ 2024-03-25 05:41  Adrian Grucza <[email protected]>
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From: Adrian Grucza @ 2024-03-25 05:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]

Hi,

We have a multi-threaded Windows application that was experiencing delays
due to high lock contention in memory allocations from the PostgreSQL ODBC
driver. We tried modifying the driver to use mimalloc
<https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc;, which is a memory allocator with
better performance characteristics. After deploying this change, the delays
due to lock contention disappeared. It has been running on thousands of our
production deployments for 9 months without issue.

I've created this pull request
<https://github.com/postgresql-interfaces/psqlodbc/pull/6; so that others
can benefit from this change by building the driver with the _MIMALLOC_
symbol defined and linking to the mimalloc library.

In my patch, the usage of mimalloc is off by default, so it should be safe
to merge. But I'd like to get people's thoughts on whether it should be
enabled by default so that people can benefit from this change without
having to build the driver themselves.

Regards,
Adrian

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* Re: [PATCH] Using mimalloc to improve performance and reduce memory allocation lock contention
@ 2024-03-25 10:59  Dave Cramer <[email protected]>
  parent: Adrian Grucza <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread

From: Dave Cramer @ 2024-03-25 10:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Adrian Grucza <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 01:42, Adrian Grucza <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have a multi-threaded Windows application that was experiencing delays
> due to high lock contention in memory allocations from the PostgreSQL ODBC
> driver. We tried modifying the driver to use mimalloc
> <https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc;, which is a memory allocator with
> better performance characteristics. After deploying this change, the delays
> due to lock contention disappeared. It has been running on thousands of our
> production deployments for 9 months without issue.
>
> I've created this pull request
> <https://github.com/postgresql-interfaces/psqlodbc/pull/6; so that others
> can benefit from this change by building the driver with the _MIMALLOC_
> symbol defined and linking to the mimalloc library.
>
> In my patch, the usage of mimalloc is off by default, so it should be safe
> to merge. But I'd like to get people's thoughts on whether it should be
> enabled by default so that people can benefit from this change without
> having to build the driver themselves.
>

Cool,

Thanks, I will have a look

Dave

>


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