[Unbound-users] Fwd: libunbound - expected performance of cached rr - 22 times slower than libc ?

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Paul,

The code that is involved creates the resolver object, notices there
is a local etc/hosts entry, creates the reply and destroys the
resolver object involved.  (and a couple mutexes are acquired and
released).

The etc/hosts file was read in on the first query, and the contents
are retained in memory in the ctx.

Perhaps these mallocs are the overhead that libc does not have to
bother with?

Best regards,
   Wouter

On 05/04/2012 03:13 PM, Paul Freeman wrote:
> 
> does anyone have any idea why this is ~22 times slower than 
> libc/getaddrinfo()?
> 
> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Unbound-users]
> libunbound - expected performance of cached rr Date: Mon, 23 Apr
> 2012 21:34:47 +0100 From: Paul Freeman
> <unbound-users at lists-in.noc4.net> To: <unbound-users at unbound.net>
> 
> 
> Hi, Having just carried out some crude benchmarking, I just thought
> I would sound out the list here.
> 
> Version 1.4.16 linked libs: libevent 2.0.16-stable (it uses epoll),
> ldns 1.6.11, OpenSSL 1.0.0h 12 Mar 2012 linked modules: validator
> iterator configured for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu on Mon Apr 23 17:54:58
> BST 2012 with options: '--prefix=/usr'
> '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
> '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
> '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' 
> '--with-pidfile=/var/run/unbound.pid' '--with-ldns=/usr' 
> '--with-libevent=/usr' 
> '--with-rootkey-file=/etc/dnssec/root-anchors.txt'
> '--disable-debug' '--disable-gost' '--disable-static'
> '--with-pthreads' '--without-pyunbound' '--without-pythonmodule'
> '--disable-rpath'
> 
> uname -a Linux fire 3.3.0-gentoo #3 SMP Fri Mar 30 21:00:18 BST
> 2012 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
> AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> 
> /etc/hosts contains a line of the form:
> 
> 127.0.0.2    test.local
> 
> 
> the following snippet yields ~850 queries/second
> 
> #define HC 10000
> 
> if( (retval=ub_ctx_hosts(ctx, "/etc/hosts")) != 0) { printf("error
> reading hosts: %s. errno says: %s\n", ub_strerror(retval),
> strerror(errno)); return 1; }
> 
> gettimeofday(&start_time, NULL);
> 
> 
> for (i=0; i<HC; i++){ retval = ub_resolve(ctx, "test.local", 1, 1,
> &result); if(retval != 0) { printf("resolve error: %s\n",
> ub_strerror(retval)); return 1; }
> 
> if((i == HC-1) &&result->havedata) printf("The address is %s\n",
> inet_ntoa(*(struct in_addr*)result->data[0]));
> 
> ub_resolve_free(result); }
> 
> gettimeofday(&end_time, NULL);
> 
> 
> a similar loop using getaddrinfo() yields ~19,000 queries per
> second
> 
> 
> I was expecting the ub_resolve() rate to be higher given that the
> data is locally cached, unless I have missed something?
> 
> 
> any advice graciously accepted, thanks.
> 
> 
> regards Paul
> 
> 
> 
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