[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Add --enable-jemalloc argument to build

[Ryan Moats]

"dev" <dev-bounces at openvswitch.org> wrote on 03/13/2016 03:48:19 AM:

> During our tests with OVSDB we found out that memory allocation is
> used intensively by the server, so we thought that using a different
> memory allocator could increase the performance. We tried jemalloc
> and the performance gain was between 20% and 40%.
>
> This patch would allow anyone to enable jemalloc on their systems
> in case you want to try out this memory allocator.
>
> The patch adds the --enable-jemalloc flag to link ovsdb-server with
jemalloc
> instead of the default memory allocator. This can improve the OVSDB
> Server performance under certains loads.
>
> Signed-off-by: Esteban Rodriguez Betancourt <estebarb at hpe.com>

Acked-by: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>