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Backport of #48523.

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[base] add build flag to use MADV_DONTFORK
Embedders like Node.js and Electron expose fork(2)/execve(2) to their
users. Unfortunately when the V8 heap is very large, these APIs become
rather slow on Linux, due to the kernel needing to do all the
bookkeeping for the forked process (in clone's dup_mmap and execve's
exec_mmap). Of course, this is useless because the forked child thread
will never actually need to access the V8 heap.
Add a new build flag v8_enable_private_mapping_fork_optimization which
marks all pages allocated by OS::Allocate as MADV_DONTFORK. This
improves the performance of Node.js's fork/execve combination by 10x on
a 600 MB heap.
Fixed: v8:7381
Change-Id: Ib649f774d4a932b41886313ce89acc369923699d
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/4602858
Commit-Queue: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#88447}
Refs: v8/v8@1a782f6
PR-URL: nodejs#48523Fixes: nodejs#25382Fixes: nodejs#14917
Refs: nodejs/performance#93
Refs: nodejs/performance#89
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Debadree Chatterjee <debadree333@gmail.com>
Speed up child_process.spawn by enabling the new V8 build flag which
makes fork/exec faster.
Here are the results of running the existing benchmark. Note that this
optimization helps more for applications with larger heaps, so this is
somewhat of an underestimate of the real world performance benefits.
```console
$ ./node benchmark/compare.js --runs 15 \
--new ./node \
--old ~/node-v20/out/Release/node \
--filter params child_process > cpr
$ node-benchmark-compare cpr
confidence improvement (***)
methodName='exec' n=1000 *** 60.84 % ±5.43%
methodName='execFile' n=1000 *** 53.72 % ±3.33%
methodName='execFileSync' n=1000 *** 9.10 % ±0.84%
methodName='execSync' n=1000 *** 10.44 % ±0.97%
methodName='spawn' n=1000 *** 53.10 % ±2.90%
methodName='spawnSync' n=1000 *** 8.64 % ±1.22%
0.01 false positives, when considering a 0.1% risk acceptance (***)
```
Fixes: nodejs#25382Fixes: nodejs#14917
Refs: nodejs/performance#93
Refs: nodejs/performance#89
PR-URL: nodejs#48523
Refs: v8/v8@1a782f6
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Debadree Chatterjee <debadree333@gmail.com>
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targos pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 26, 2023
Original commit message:
[base] add build flag to use MADV_DONTFORK
Embedders like Node.js and Electron expose fork(2)/execve(2) to their
users. Unfortunately when the V8 heap is very large, these APIs become
rather slow on Linux, due to the kernel needing to do all the
bookkeeping for the forked process (in clone's dup_mmap and execve's
exec_mmap). Of course, this is useless because the forked child thread
will never actually need to access the V8 heap.
Add a new build flag v8_enable_private_mapping_fork_optimization which
marks all pages allocated by OS::Allocate as MADV_DONTFORK. This
improves the performance of Node.js's fork/execve combination by 10x on
a 600 MB heap.
Fixed: v8:7381
Change-Id: Ib649f774d4a932b41886313ce89acc369923699d
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/4602858
Commit-Queue: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#88447}
Refs: v8/v8@1a782f6
PR-URL: #48523
Backport-PR-URL: #50098Fixes: #25382Fixes: #14917
Refs: nodejs/performance#93
Refs: nodejs/performance#89
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Debadree Chatterjee <debadree333@gmail.com>
@targostargos closed this Nov 26, 2023
targos pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 26, 2023
Speed up child_process.spawn by enabling the new V8 build flag which
makes fork/exec faster.
Here are the results of running the existing benchmark. Note that this
optimization helps more for applications with larger heaps, so this is
somewhat of an underestimate of the real world performance benefits.
```console
$ ./node benchmark/compare.js --runs 15 \
--new ./node \
--old ~/node-v20/out/Release/node \
--filter params child_process > cpr
$ node-benchmark-compare cpr
confidence improvement (***)
methodName='exec' n=1000 *** 60.84 % ±5.43%
methodName='execFile' n=1000 *** 53.72 % ±3.33%
methodName='execFileSync' n=1000 *** 9.10 % ±0.84%
methodName='execSync' n=1000 *** 10.44 % ±0.97%
methodName='spawn' n=1000 *** 53.10 % ±2.90%
methodName='spawnSync' n=1000 *** 8.64 % ±1.22%
0.01 false positives, when considering a 0.1% risk acceptance (***)
```
Fixes: #25382Fixes: #14917
Refs: nodejs/performance#93
Refs: nodejs/performance#89
PR-URL: #48523
Backport-PR-URL: #50098
Refs: v8/v8@1a782f6
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Debadree Chatterjee <debadree333@gmail.com>
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aduh95 deleted the backport-fork-improvements branch January 12, 2024 11:31
sercher added a commit to sercher/graaljs that referenced this pull request Apr 25, 2024
Original commit message:
[base] add build flag to use MADV_DONTFORK
Embedders like Node.js and Electron expose fork(2)/execve(2) to their
users. Unfortunately when the V8 heap is very large, these APIs become
rather slow on Linux, due to the kernel needing to do all the
bookkeeping for the forked process (in clone's dup_mmap and execve's
exec_mmap). Of course, this is useless because the forked child thread
will never actually need to access the V8 heap.
Add a new build flag v8_enable_private_mapping_fork_optimization which
marks all pages allocated by OS::Allocate as MADV_DONTFORK. This
improves the performance of Node.js's fork/execve combination by 10x on
a 600 MB heap.
Fixed: v8:7381
Change-Id: Ib649f774d4a932b41886313ce89acc369923699d
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/4602858
Commit-Queue: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#88447}
Refs: v8/v8@1a782f6
PR-URL: nodejs/node#48523
Backport-PR-URL: nodejs/node#50098Fixes: nodejs/node#25382Fixes: nodejs/node#14917
Refs: nodejs/performance#93
Refs: nodejs/performance#89
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Debadree Chatterjee <debadree333@gmail.com>
sercher added a commit to sercher/graaljs that referenced this pull request Apr 25, 2024
Speed up child_process.spawn by enabling the new V8 build flag which
makes fork/exec faster.
Here are the results of running the existing benchmark. Note that this
optimization helps more for applications with larger heaps, so this is
somewhat of an underestimate of the real world performance benefits.
```console
$ ./node benchmark/compare.js --runs 15 \
--new ./node \
--old ~/node-v20/out/Release/node \
--filter params child_process > cpr
$ node-benchmark-compare cpr
confidence improvement (***)
methodName='exec' n=1000 *** 60.84 % ±5.43%
methodName='execFile' n=1000 *** 53.72 % ±3.33%
methodName='execFileSync' n=1000 *** 9.10 % ±0.84%
methodName='execSync' n=1000 *** 10.44 % ±0.97%
methodName='spawn' n=1000 *** 53.10 % ±2.90%
methodName='spawnSync' n=1000 *** 8.64 % ±1.22%
0.01 false positives, when considering a 0.1% risk acceptance (***)
```
Fixes: nodejs/node#25382Fixes: nodejs/node#14917
Refs: nodejs/performance#93
Refs: nodejs/performance#89
PR-URL: nodejs/node#48523
Backport-PR-URL: nodejs/node#50098
Refs: v8/v8@1a782f6
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Debadree Chatterjee <debadree333@gmail.com>
sercher added a commit to sercher/graaljs that referenced this pull request Apr 25, 2024
Original commit message:
[base] add build flag to use MADV_DONTFORK
Embedders like Node.js and Electron expose fork(2)/execve(2) to their
users. Unfortunately when the V8 heap is very large, these APIs become
rather slow on Linux, due to the kernel needing to do all the
bookkeeping for the forked process (in clone's dup_mmap and execve's
exec_mmap). Of course, this is useless because the forked child thread
will never actually need to access the V8 heap.
Add a new build flag v8_enable_private_mapping_fork_optimization which
marks all pages allocated by OS::Allocate as MADV_DONTFORK. This
improves the performance of Node.js's fork/execve combination by 10x on
a 600 MB heap.
Fixed: v8:7381
Change-Id: Ib649f774d4a932b41886313ce89acc369923699d
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/4602858
Commit-Queue: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#88447}
Refs: v8/v8@1a782f6
PR-URL: nodejs/node#48523
Backport-PR-URL: nodejs/node#50098Fixes: nodejs/node#25382Fixes: nodejs/node#14917
Refs: nodejs/performance#93
Refs: nodejs/performance#89
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Debadree Chatterjee <debadree333@gmail.com>
sercher added a commit to sercher/graaljs that referenced this pull request Apr 25, 2024
Speed up child_process.spawn by enabling the new V8 build flag which
makes fork/exec faster.
Here are the results of running the existing benchmark. Note that this
optimization helps more for applications with larger heaps, so this is
somewhat of an underestimate of the real world performance benefits.
```console
$ ./node benchmark/compare.js --runs 15 \
--new ./node \
--old ~/node-v20/out/Release/node \
--filter params child_process > cpr
$ node-benchmark-compare cpr
confidence improvement (***)
methodName='exec' n=1000 *** 60.84 % ±5.43%
methodName='execFile' n=1000 *** 53.72 % ±3.33%
methodName='execFileSync' n=1000 *** 9.10 % ±0.84%
methodName='execSync' n=1000 *** 10.44 % ±0.97%
methodName='spawn' n=1000 *** 53.10 % ±2.90%
methodName='spawnSync' n=1000 *** 8.64 % ±1.22%
0.01 false positives, when considering a 0.1% risk acceptance (***)
```
Fixes: nodejs/node#25382Fixes: nodejs/node#14917
Refs: nodejs/performance#93
Refs: nodejs/performance#89
PR-URL: nodejs/node#48523
Backport-PR-URL: nodejs/node#50098
Refs: v8/v8@1a782f6
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Debadree Chatterjee <debadree333@gmail.com>
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