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Bug #74250 OPcache compilation performance regression in PHP 5.6/7 with huge classes
Submitted: 2017-03-15 09:36 UTC Modified: 2017-03-17 12:12 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: dzuelke at gmail dot com Assigned: nikic (profile)
Status: Closed Package: opcache
PHP Version: 7.0.16 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2017-03-15 09:36 UTC] dzuelke at gmail dot com
Description:
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There appears to be a performance regression in the CFG and DFA based optimization passes of OPcache in PHP 5.6+ when loading huge classes (such as those generated by Symfony's routing component) for the first time.

The issue does not occur on PHP 5.5. Tests below are with 5.6.30, 7.0.16 and 7.1.2 and default INI settings; I replicated the issue on both macOS and Linux.

Test file here (it's from an actual application, slightly anonymized, not a synthetic example): https://gist.github.com/dzuelke/fe867f55f09e0bf79ecefcc815b7fe92

Without OPcache, everything is fine in all versions:

$ time -p php -dopcache.enable_cli=0 hugeclass.php 
real 0.10
user 0.09
sys 0.00

With OPcache on, things are suddenly much, much slower:

5.6:

$ time -p php -dopcache.enable_cli=1 hugeclass.php
real 3.23
user 3.21
sys 0.02

7.0:

$ time -p php -dopcache.enable_cli=1 hugeclass.php
real 1.76
user 1.73
sys 0.02

7.1:

$ time -p php -dopcache.enable_cli=1 hugeclass.php
real 4.01
user 3.98
sys 0.02

For comparison, 5.5 is as speedy as you'd expect it to be:

$ time -p php -dopcache.enable_cli=1 hugeclass.php 
real 0.14
user 0.11
sys 0.02

If we switch off optimization passes 5 (CFG based) and 6 (DFA based, only in 7.1), everything is great again in all versions:

$ time -p php -dopcache.enable_cli=1 -dopcache.optimization_level=0x7FFFFFCF hugeclass.php
real 0.13
user 0.10
sys 0.02

For 5.6 and 7.0, pass 6 is not a thing, but in 7.1, we can inspect passes 5 and 6 separately.

Pass 5 (CFG based) already makes for a drastic performance hit in 7.1:

$ time -p php -dopcache.enable_cli=1 -dopcache.optimization_level=0x7FFFFFDF hugeclass.php
real 0.88
user 0.86
sys 0.01

But pass 6 (DFA based) is the one that causes the biggest slowdown in 7.1:

$ time -p php -dopcache.enable_cli=1 -dopcache.optimization_level=0x7FFFFFEF hugeclass.php
real 3.29
user 3.24
sys 0.04

In all versions, subsequent loads from the cache (such as when running FPM or the built-in web server) are fast.

Confirmed as bug in both CFG and DFA passes by Nikita: http://news.php.net/php.internals/98518

Test script:
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https://gist.github.com/dzuelke/fe867f55f09e0bf79ecefcc815b7fe92


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 [2017-03-16 00:33 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: nikic
 [2017-03-17 12:12 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2017-03-17 12:12 UTC] nikic@php.net
Relevant commits for the DFA pass:

Call lookup:
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/9331be7d6af4ba9ab9945ac1d72812603fdd821c
Loop identification / DJ spanning tree:
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6633e8492e6195c4085b04c65fb18addd0ac33a6
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/f1f68b60f5e6f75002560b44211f3449b25f918d
Worklist management:
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/e60515f3b84b9d24748cdd7aa9ccbfa3cfa23d62
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/052aa466e1f309c83503fede7f02ffa4ed772d4a

Resolving the performance problems in the block pass would require some larger changes. Instead I disabled it entirely for large functions (the sample file is 20x over the threshold):

https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/7ea261685f179a7cddcc4196fc7f3f12572c3d49
 [2017-03-17 17:20 UTC] dzuelke at gmail dot com
Fantastic, thank you so much Nikita! I assume this will this be backported to the 7.0 branch as well?
 
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