Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. For a while I was promoting the use of Canonical's libc6-prof, which was libc6 with frame pointers. The actual overhead depends on your workload.

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Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The division by a power of two ( / (2 N )) can be implemented as a right shift if we are working with unsigned integers, which compiles to single instruction: that is possible because the underlying hardware uses a base 2. The computation of the remainder is nice, but I really like better the divisibility test. Can we do better?

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Copyright The information ​​ that is contained ​​ in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. During my investigation, I traced, tested, reviewed, and instrumented the Linux kernel to understand the SQL Server I/O durability needs and associated impacts. Starting with the Linux 4.18

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

My development collogues and I are starting a regular blog series, outlining the vast range of scalability improvements, allowing SQL Server 2016 to run across a wide array of hardware configurations, faster and better than previous releases of SQL Server. The following table is taken from an ASP.NET, session state cache, stress test.

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