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Wilco Dijkstra e956075a5a Use relaxed atomics for malloc have_fastchunks
Currently free typically uses 2 atomic operations per call.  The have_fastchunks
flag indicates whether there are recently freed blocks in the fastbins.  This
is purely an optimization to avoid calling malloc_consolidate too often and
avoiding the overhead of walking all fast bins even if all are empty during a
sequence of allocations.  However using catomic_or to update the flag is
completely unnecessary since it can be changed into a simple boolean and
accessed using relaxed atomics.  There is no change in multi-threaded behaviour
given the flag is already approximate (it may be set when there are no blocks in
any fast bins, or it may be clear when there are free blocks that could be
consolidated).

Performance of malloc/free improves by 27% on a simple benchmark on AArch64
(both single and multithreaded). The number of load/store exclusive instructions
is reduced by 33%. Bench-malloc-thread speeds up by ~3% in all cases.

	* malloc/malloc.c (FASTCHUNKS_BIT): Remove.
	(have_fastchunks): Remove.
	(clear_fastchunks): Remove.
	(set_fastchunks): Remove.
	(malloc_state): Add have_fastchunks.
	(malloc_init_state): Use have_fastchunks.
	(do_check_malloc_state): Remove incorrect invariant checks.
	(_int_malloc): Use have_fastchunks.
	(_int_free): Likewise.
	(malloc_consolidate): Likewise.
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argp Mark internal argp functions with attribute_hidden [BZ #18822] 2017-10-01 15:10:27 -07:00
assert Fix position of tests-unsupported definition in assert/Makefile. 2017-08-22 00:30:51 +00:00
benchtests Benchtests for sinf, cosf and sincosf 2017-10-13 14:19:45 +05:30
bits hurd: Fix bits/socket.h conformity 2017-09-24 22:21:41 +02:00
catgets Don't compile non-lib modules as lib modules [BZ #21864] 2017-08-21 05:34:54 -07:00
ChangeLog.old Add missing reference to bug 21654 2017-10-07 13:14:36 +02:00
conform Fix mcontext_t sigcontext namespace (bug 21457). 2017-08-30 22:02:04 +00:00
crypt crypt: Use NSPR header files in addition to NSS header files [BZ #17956] 2017-10-04 15:02:35 +02:00
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ctype Use locale_t, not __locale_t, throughout glibc 2017-06-20 20:30:06 -04:00
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dev Rename xlocale.h to bits/types/__locale_t.h. 2017-06-20 20:28:11 -04:00
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libio Always do locking when iterating over list of streams (bug 15142) 2017-10-05 17:26:05 +02:00
locale locale: Don't use \n with record_verbose messages. 2017-10-15 14:25:26 -07:00
localedata New locale ca_ES@valencia [BZ #2522] 2017-10-17 17:07:16 +02:00
login openpty: use TIOCGPTPEER to open slave side fd 2017-10-08 17:47:58 +02:00
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malloc Use relaxed atomics for malloc have_fastchunks 2017-10-17 18:43:31 +01:00
manual Remove add-ons mechanism. 2017-10-05 15:58:13 +00:00
math Let signbit use the builtin in C++ mode with gcc < 6.x (bug 22296) 2017-10-17 12:06:44 -02:00
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stdio-common [BZ #22142] powerpc: Fix the carry bit on mpn_[add|sub]_n on POWER7 2017-10-13 15:44:39 -03:00
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ChangeLog Use relaxed atomics for malloc have_fastchunks 2017-10-17 18:43:31 +01:00
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