[PATCH 3/3] malloc: Increase tcache fill count from 16 to 32

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Dec 18 10:18:00 GMT 2025


This avoids a regression in the omnetpp and xalancbmk benchmarks
of SPEC.  Apparently, these benchmarks are very sensitive to the
fill rate in malloc.

Suggested-by: Wilco Dijkstra <wilco.dijkstra@arm.com>
Tested-by: Wilco Dijkstra <wilco.dijkstra@arm.com>
---
 malloc/malloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/malloc/malloc.c b/malloc/malloc.c
index d42f0183e3..d60a133a06 100644
--- a/malloc/malloc.c
+++ b/malloc/malloc.c
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@
 
 /* This is another arbitrary limit, which tunables can change.  Each
    tcache bin will hold at most this number of chunks.  */
-# define TCACHE_FILL_COUNT 16
+# define TCACHE_FILL_COUNT 32
 
 /* Maximum chunks in tcache bins for tunables.  This value must fit the range
    of tcache->num_slots[] entries, else they may overflow.  */
-- 
2.52.0



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