michael goulish created PROTON-888:
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Summary: allocate_alias linear search becomes slow at scale
Key: PROTON-888
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-888
Project: Qpid Proton
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: michael goulish
Testing that I have done recently goes to large scale on number of sessions per
connection. I noticed that the test was slowing down rapidly over time, in
terms of how many sessions were being established per unit time.
The function allocate_alias in file transport.c uses a linear search through an
array to find the next available channel number for a session (or the next
available handle number for a link). In a usage scenario like mine in which
many sessions will be established, this becomes very slow as the array fills up.
At the beginning of my test, this function is too fast to measure. By the end,
it is using more than 82 milliseconds per call. Overall, this function alone
is contributing more than 20 seconds to my 3-minute test.
This is not an unrealistic scenario -- we already have one potential customer
who is interested in going to this kind of scale. (Which is why I was doing
this test.)
Maybe we can find an implementation that does not slow down the common scale,
and yet behaves better at the high end.
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