[Unbound-users] ~10% performance increase in worker_handle_request()

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Robert,

On 01/06/2014 07:46 PM, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> W.C.A. Wijngaards wrote:
>> However, moving the check after the cache check is not a good
>> idea. The localzone and localdata statements are supposed to be
>> able to override the DNS contents from the internet.  Checking it
>> earlier means that this always happens.  Messing with cache
>> flushes sounds very bad, a query may create a recursive query
>> that would then override the configuration and so on, lots of
>> complexity as well as worries about giving the 'wrong' answers
>> (as compared to the configuration).
> 
> OK, that makes sense.
> 
>> It would be better to optimise the localzone lookup itself
>> somehow. Not sure what the best way is, it is visible that it
>> uses a rbtree now and that this is slower than the hashtable that
>> the other cache employs
> 
> Yes, the problem is not that the localzone lookup occurs first, per
> se, but that the localzone lookup causes measurable contention with
> other threads.

The lock is changed to a rwlock, so that the threads can all acquire
the readlock to answer queries.  That should reduce contention?  The
call order is not changed.

Best regards,
   Wouter

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