Disruptor v3 – Faster Hopefully

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I’ve be working sporadically on the next major revision of the Disruptor, but still making steady progress. I’ve merged my experimental branch into the main line and I’m working on ensure comprehensive test coverage and re-implement the Disruptor DSL.

As a matter of course I’ve been running performance tests to ensure that we don’t regress performance. While I’ve not been focusing on performance, just some refactoring and simplification I got a nice surprise. The new version is over twice as fast for the 1P1C simple test case; approximately 85M ops/sec versus 35M ops/sec. This is on my workstation which is an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU [email protected].

Current released version (2.10.1)


[barkerm@snake disruptor-2]$ taskset -c 4-8,12-15 ant througput:single-test
througput:single-test:
    [junit] Running
com.lmax.disruptor.OnePublisherToOneProcessorUniCastThroughputTest
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 0
    [junit] Disruptor=21,141,649 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 1
    [junit] Disruptor=20,597,322 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 2
    [junit] Disruptor=33,233,632 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 3
    [junit] Disruptor=32,883,919 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 4
    [junit] Disruptor=33,852,403 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 5
    [junit] Disruptor=32,819,166 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 6

Current trunk.


[barkerm@snake disruptor]$ taskset -c 4-8,12-15 ant througput:single-test
througput:single-test:
    [junit] Running
com.lmax.disruptor.OnePublisherToOneProcessorUniCastThroughputTest
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 0
    [junit] Disruptor=23,288,309 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 1
    [junit] Disruptor=23,573,785 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 2
    [junit] Disruptor=86,805,555 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 3
    [junit] Disruptor=87,183,958 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 4
    [junit] Disruptor=86,956,521 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 5
    [junit] Disruptor=87,260,034 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 6
    [junit] Disruptor=88,261,253 ops/sec
    [junit] Started Disruptor run 7

There is still more to come. In addition to improvement for the single producer use case the next version will include a new multiple producer algorithm that will replace the two that we currently have and work better than both of them in all scenarios.

LMAX Exchange Staff Blogs Mike Barker   Foreign Exchange   LMAX Exchange  

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