From: "Liran Zelkha" <liran.zelkha(a)gmail.com>
To: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini(a)redhat.com>, "engine-devel"
<engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 11:37:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Guid improvements
Great news.
Allon - please note that GUID is being recreated from String by both DB calls
and by data received from VDSM. It is VERY useful to cache Guid
String-->Guid, and not just Empty GUID.
I generally agree about the high cost of
sting<->uuid operations, but I'm not sure caching is the way to go, at least not
everywhere.
At least for the database, there is a much easier solution - stop using strings to
represent uuids.
Here's an example of how it can be done:
However, as the Guid class runs in GWT as well, you can't use Infinispan and
you're limited in the HashMap implementations you can use. Personally, I
don't think it's a memory leak, as GUID number in the system are finite and
not too large. What do you think? Want to add it to your patch?
On Jun 30, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
> Well done, should have been done ages ago :)
> Now, for the painful rebase of async_task_mgr changes :)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini(a)redhat.com>
>> To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>, "Barak
Azulay"
>> <bazulay(a)redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs(a)redhat.com>, "Michael
Pasternak"
>> <mpastern(a)redhat.com>, "Tal Nisan"
>> <tnisan(a)redhat.com>, "Ayal Baron" <abaron(a)redhat.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 11:11:30 AM
>> Subject: Guid improvements
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just merged a couple of improvements to the [N]Guid class [1] to improve
>> it's performance both CPU-wise and memory-wise, based on a set of
>> benchmarks
>> presented by Liran.
>>
>> What this patchset achieves:
>> 1. Clean up the code, so it's easier to understand and use
>> 2. Eliminate the inflation in the memory foot print caused by the
>> getValue()
>> method
>> 3. Eliminate all the heavy calls to UUID.fromString when creating a
>> new/empty
>> Guid instance as a default value
>> 4. Note that the cleanups proposed in (1) will have minor performance
>> benefits (e.g., eliminating useless conditional statements), but I doubt
>> this would be anything to write home about.
>>
>> From a developer's perspective, here's what changed:
>> 1. No more NGuid, just Guid. Both static methods to create a Guid from
>> String
>> still exist, and are named createGuidFromString and
>> createGuidFromStringDefaultEmpty.
>> 2. [N]Guid.getValue() was removed, it's no longer needed after (1) was
>> implemented
>> 3. The Guid() constructor was made private, as it forced a redundant call
>> to
>> UUID.fromString(String). If you need an empty Guid instance, just use
>> Guid.Empty
>> 4. The Guid.EMPTY_GUID_VALUE string constant was removed, as it was used
>> for
>> redundant calls to UUID.fromString. If you really, REALLY, need it, just
>> call Guid.Empty.getValue() for a UUID or Guid.Empty.toString() for a
>> String.
>> 5. All sorts of ways to transform Strings to Guids were removed. If you
>> have
>> a literal you trust, just use new Guid(String). If you suspect it may be
>> null, use Guid.createGuidFromString[DefaultEmpty]
>> 6. NewGuid is now called newGuid. We're in Java, not C# :-)
>>
>>
>> Many thanks to everyone who reviewed this patchset.
>> You guys rock!
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Allon
>>
>>
>> [1]
>>
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/project:ovirt-engine+branch:master+topic:guid...
>>
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