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| author | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2010-06-17 10:23:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2010-08-10 11:41:14 +0200 |
| commit | 300b419486c1ca88e33938f182d5d5a8b90fb73f (patch) | |
| tree | 55c37d5fb042bf6b3b5f56d89c9238a7e22f8b29 /erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types | |
| parent | c1e94fa9a6fe4ae717d35dfbd1b628dc2e06d26a (diff) | |
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Rewrite ethread library
Large parts of the ethread library have been rewritten. The
ethread library is an Erlang runtime system internal, portable
thread library used by the runtime system itself.
Most notable improvement is a reader optimized rwlock
implementation which dramatically improve the performance of
read-lock/read-unlock operations on multi processor systems by
avoiding ping-ponging of the rwlock cache lines. The reader
optimized rwlock implementation is used by miscellaneous
rwlocks in the runtime system that are known to be read-locked
frequently, and can be enabled on ETS tables by passing the
`{read_concurrency, true}' option upon table creation. See the
documentation of `ets:new/2' for more information.
The ethread library can now also use the libatomic_ops library
for atomic memory accesses. This makes it possible for the
Erlang runtime system to utilize optimized atomic operations
on more platforms than before. Use the
`--with-libatomic_ops=PATH' configure command line argument
when specifying where the libatomic_ops installation is
located. The libatomic_ops library can be downloaded from:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/
The changed API of the ethread library has also caused
modifications in the Erlang runtime system. Preparations for
the to come "delayed deallocation" feature has also been done
since it depends on the ethread library.
Note: When building for x86, the ethread library will now use
instructions that first appeared on the pentium 4 processor. If
you want the runtime system to be compatible with older
processors (back to 486) you need to pass the
`--enable-ethread-pre-pentium4-compatibility' configure command
line argument when configuring the system.
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types index 6f88bbe5b8..7df9f19af0 100644 --- a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types +++ b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types @@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ type LOGGER_DSBUF TEMPORARY SYSTEM logger_dsbuf type TMP_DSBUF TEMPORARY SYSTEM tmp_dsbuf type INFO_DSBUF SYSTEM SYSTEM info_dsbuf # INFO_DSBUF have to use the SYSTEM allocator; otherwise, a deadlock might occur -type SCHDLR_DATA LONG_LIVED PROCESSES scheduler_data +type SCHDLR_DATA LONG_LIVED SYSTEM scheduler_data +type SCHDLR_SLP_INFO LONG_LIVED SYSTEM scheduler_sleep_info type RUNQS LONG_LIVED SYSTEM run_queues type DDLL_PROCESS STANDARD SYSTEM ddll_processes type DDLL_HANDLE STANDARD SYSTEM ddll_handle @@ -246,6 +247,7 @@ type CPUDATA LONG_LIVED SYSTEM cpu_data type TMP_CPU_IDS SHORT_LIVED SYSTEM tmp_cpu_ids type EXT_TERM_DATA SHORT_LIVED PROCESSES external_term_data type ZLIB STANDARD SYSTEM zlib +type RDR_GRPS_MAP LONG_LIVED SYSTEM reader_groups_map +if smp type ASYNC SHORT_LIVED SYSTEM async @@ -269,7 +271,9 @@ type RUNQ_BLNS LONG_LIVED SYSTEM run_queue_balancing +if threads -type ETHR_INTERNAL SYSTEM SYSTEM ethread_internal +type ETHR_STD STANDARD SYSTEM ethread_standard +type ETHR_SL SHORT_LIVED SYSTEM ethread_short_lived +type ETHR_LL LONG_LIVED SYSTEM ethread_long_lived +ifnot smp |