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child_process: improve spawn performance on Linux
Speed up child_process.spawn by enabling the new V8 build flag which makes fork/exec faster. Here are the results of running the existing benchmark. Note that this optimization helps more for applications with larger heaps, so this is somewhat of an underestimate of the real world performance benefits. ```console $ ./node benchmark/compare.js --runs 15 \ --new ./node \ --old ~/node-v20/out/Release/node \ --filter params child_process > cpr $ node-benchmark-compare cpr confidence improvement (***) methodName='exec' n=1000 *** 60.84 % ±5.43% methodName='execFile' n=1000 *** 53.72 % ±3.33% methodName='execFileSync' n=1000 *** 9.10 % ±0.84% methodName='execSync' n=1000 *** 10.44 % ±0.97% methodName='spawn' n=1000 *** 53.10 % ±2.90% methodName='spawnSync' n=1000 *** 8.64 % ±1.22% 0.01 false positives, when considering a 0.1% risk acceptance (***) ``` Fixes: nodejs#25382 Fixes: nodejs#14917 Refs: nodejs/performance#93 Refs: nodejs/performance#89
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'v8_enable_etw_stack_walking': 1,
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}, {
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'v8_enable_etw_stack_walking': 0,
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}]
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}],
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['OS=="linux"', {
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# Sets -dV8_ENABLE_PRIVATE_MAPPING_FORK_OPTIMIZATION.
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#
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# This flag speeds up the performance of fork/execve on Linux systems for
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# embedders which use it (like Node.js). It works by marking the pages that
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# V8 allocates as MADV_DONTFORK. Without MADV_DONTFORK, the Linux kernel
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# spends a long time manipulating page mappings on fork and exec which the
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# child process doesn't generally need to access.
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#
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# See v8:7381 for more details.
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'v8_enable_private_mapping_fork_optimization': 1,
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}, {
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'v8_enable_private_mapping_fork_optimization': 0,
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}],
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],
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'is_debug%': 0,
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['v8_enable_hugepage==1', {
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'defines': ['ENABLE_HUGEPAGE',],
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}],
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['v8_enable_private_mapping_fork_optimization==1', {
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'defines': ['V8_ENABLE_PRIVATE_MAPPING_FORK_OPTIMIZATION'],
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}],
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['v8_enable_vtunejit==1', {
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'defines': ['ENABLE_VTUNE_JIT_INTERFACE',],
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}],

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