configure: Add support for tcmalloc
This adds "--enable-tcmalloc" and "--disable-tcmalloc" to allow linking
to libtcmalloc from gperftools.
tcmalloc is a malloc implementation that works well with threads and is
fast, so it is good for performance.
It is disabled by default, because the MALLOC_PERTURB_ flag we use in
tests doesn't work with tcmalloc. However we can enable tcmalloc
specific heap checker and profilers later.
An IOPS gain can be observed with virtio-blk-dataplane, other parts of
QEMU will directly benefit from it as well:
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glibc malloc
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rw bs iodepth bw iops latency
read 4k 1 150 38511 24
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tcmalloc
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rw bs iodepth bw iops latency
read 4k 1 156 39969 23
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Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1427338992-27057-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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