Hi !
We have some performance problems with Wine that we could use some help on..
Here's the story:
We have been using TI code generation tools (compiler and linker) on Wine, and it has worked well. However, when we started evaluating newer versions of the codegen tools, the linking time was dramatically increased (from 20 sec to 30 minutes...).
We have done some profiling using oprofile, and found that most of this time (96%) is spent in the HEAP_FindFreeBlock* *function in the ntdll module. The time needed to locate a free heap block increases gradually, from a few iterations up to about 15000 in the project we are building. We suspect that this may be due to fragmentation caused by the heap allocate/free algorithms.
We do not have the same problem when building the code under Windows, so we tried to use the native ntdll.dll from Windows instead of ntdll.dll.so, hoping that this would solve the performance issue. We are aware that this is not recommended, but wanted to give it a try anyway. We added the dll file to the global dll-override section in the config file under ~/.wine/config, but it seems like Wine just looks for the builtin dll. We see from strace that we access the correct config file at startup. Is override of ntdll not supported, or have we missed something? If it is supported, is it likely that it is going to work?
We have read some posts in the newsgroup about the heap issues. It seems that people agree that the heap should be improved, either by tweaking the existing code, or by using another heap implementation. Is any work planned on this?
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