[Kde-pim] Review Request 121247: Test whether compiler supports all required C++11 features at configure time

[Milian Wolff]

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WTF major rbt post -g fail :-/

- Milian Wolff


On Nov. 26, 2014, 6:16 p.m., Milian Wolff wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 26, 2014, 6:16 p.m.)
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> Review request for Akonadi, Daniel Vrátil and Volker Krause.
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> Repository: akonadi
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> Description
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> To prevent ugly compilation errors when someone tries to compile Akonadi
> with a compiler that does not support all C++11 features we use, we run
> a try_compile check in CMakeLists.txt.
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> prevent starting a QTimer with a negative interval Review: 120800
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> Convert some qDebugs to akDebugs
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> This should make Akonadi in release mode even less chatty.
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> Optimize: Reduce the amount of allocations required to build a query.
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> The initial implementation of the QueryBuilder was quite naive, when
> you look at the amount of string allocations it does to build the
> final query we sent to the SQL server.
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> This was found with Linux perf (no, not even heaptrack!). It
> showed a huge number of cycles spent in malloc/free, all called
> eventually by the QueryBuilder.
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> This patch removes most of these allocations. It can further be
> improved in the future, I bet. Also, the amount of queries we create
> is pretty large. I guess using stored procedures or something similar
> might also help the performance. At least, we should try to "remember"
> some of our queries, and make it possible to reuse them in the
> functions that run often.
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> The added benchmark shows that the cost is not as big as I'd initially
> assumed. There are simply many more allocation occurrences in Akonadi
> currently. Still, I think it's worth it, as it also decreases the
> memory fragmentation and improves cache locality:
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> Before:
> RESULT : QueryBuilderTest::benchQueryBuilder():
>      0.0115 msecs per iteration (total: 116, iterations: 10000)
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> 113.10MB bytes allocated in total (ignoring deallocations)
> over 1203089 calls to allocation functions.
> peak heap memory consumption: 254.46KB
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> After:
> RESULT : QueryBuilderTest::benchQueryBuilder():
>      0.0065 msecs per iteration (total: 66, iterations: 10000)
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> 62.42MB bytes allocated in total (ignoring deallocations)
> over 343089 calls to allocation functions.
> peak heap memory consumption: 254.96KB
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> So before, we had approx. 60 allocations per query build in the
> benchmark (note that Qt for some reason executes the loop twice,
> so while the time is measured for 10k iterations, heaptrack will
> see 20k). With this patch applied, we only need ~20 allocations
> per query we build up.
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> The remaining allocations are the various append operations to
> the QList/QVectors mostly, as well as QueryBuilder::addAggregation.
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> REVIEW: 121247
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> Diffs
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>   server/src/storage/querybuilder.cpp c07905906bdc712d41007ada753c2d821afd0a2d 
>   server/tests/unittest/querybuildertest.h 3bb6b22435816b17930956cfc0eb8541db279042 
>   server/tests/unittest/querybuildertest.cpp 0aba8a17ad7fb5c35f4b2b3e4366d11061b5329d 
>   CMakeLists.txt e081d23c1f9871823cea157fcd9a5499dd477130 
>   server/src/collectionscheduler.cpp 8d4cd5c92ce32195c80b2d3092c12e857599220b 
>   server/src/handler/merge.cpp fffe10099fb7f983c34e887bec8ea8312cc68b6f 
>   server/src/handler/modify.cpp 9671fb94630e81aa3da28251e9beb6c61e73b8fb 
>   server/src/handler/remove.cpp 090531f961e266b48a3a6487b838e0c96d44acba 
>   server/src/search/searchmanager.cpp 35e76e1881575553da493dd23d3fd1a0b618bbb1 
>   server/src/storage/querybuilder.h b380f93d8153ebf4581d24da9c820fd0b7b81701 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121247/diff/
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> Testing
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> querybuilder test runs, KMail runs - no errors shown on the CLI.
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> Thanks,
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> Milian Wolff
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