The default kmem debugging (--enable-debug-kmem) can severely impact
performance on large-scale NUMA systems due to the atomic operations
used in the memory accounting. A 32-thread fio test running on a
40-core 80-thread system and performing 100% cached reads with kmem
debugging is:
Enabled:
READ: io=177071MB, aggrb=2951.2MB/s, minb=2951.2MB/s, maxb=2951.2MB/s,
Disabled:
READ: io=271454MB, aggrb=4524.4MB/s, minb=4524.4MB/s, maxb=4524.4MB/s,
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issues #463
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