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Communication between Erlang processes has conceptually always been
performed through asynchronous signaling. The runtime system
implementation has however previously preformed most operation
synchronously. In a system with only one true thread of execution, this
is not problematic (often the opposite). In a system with multiple threads
of execution (as current runtime system implementation with SMP support)
it becomes problematic. This since it often involves locking of structures
when updating them which in turn cause resource contention. Utilizing
true asynchronous communication often avoids these resource contention
issues.
The case that triggered this change was contention on the link lock due
to frequent updates of the monitor trees during communication with a
frequently used server. The signal order delivery guarantees of the
language makes it hard to change the implementation of only some signals
to use true asynchronous signaling. Therefore the implementations
of (almost) all signals have been changed.
Currently the following signals have been implemented as true
asynchronous signals:
- Message signals
- Exit signals
- Monitor signals
- Demonitor signals
- Monitor triggered signals (DOWN, CHANGE, etc)
- Link signals
- Unlink signals
- Group leader signals
All of the above already defined as asynchronous signals in the
language. The implementation of messages signals was quite
asynchronous to begin with, but had quite strict delivery constraints
due to the ordering guarantees of signals between a pair of processes.
The previously used message queue partitioned into two halves has been
replaced by a more general signal queue partitioned into three parts
that service all kinds of signals. More details regarding the signal
queue can be found in comments in the erl_proc_sig_queue.h file.
The monitor and link implementations have also been completely replaced
in order to fit the new asynchronous signaling implementation as good
as possible. More details regarding the new monitor and link
implementations can be found in the erl_monitor_link.h file.
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* maint:
Update primary bootstrap
Conflicts:
bootstrap/bin/start.boot
bootstrap/bin/start_clean.boot
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/beam_asm.beam
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/beam_jump.beam
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/beam_listing.beam
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/beam_type.beam
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/beam_validator.beam
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/compile.beam
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/core_pp.beam
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/v3_codegen.beam
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/v3_kernel_pp.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/dist_util.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/error_logger.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/erts_debug.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/group_history.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/hipe_unified_loader.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/kernel.app
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/os.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/user.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/array.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/dets.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/edlin.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/erl_lint.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/ets.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/filelib.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/filename.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/gen_statem.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/lib.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/otp_internal.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/qlc.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/shell.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/stdlib.appup
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/string.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/unicode_util.beam
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This improves the latency of file operations as dirty schedulers
are a bit more eager to run jobs than async threads, and use a
single global queue rather than per-thread queues, eliminating the
risk of a job stalling behind a long-running job on the same thread
while other async threads sit idle.
There's no such thing as a free lunch though; the lowered latency
comes at the cost of increased busy-waiting which may have an
adverse effect on some applications. This behavior can be tweaked
with the +sbwt flag, but unfortunately it affects all types of
schedulers and not just dirty ones. We plan to add type-specific
flags at a later stage.
sendfile has been moved to inet_drv to lessen the effect of a nasty
race; the cooperation between inet_drv and efile has never been
airtight and the socket dying at the wrong time (Regardless of
reason) could result in fd aliasing. Moving it to the inet driver
makes it impossible to trigger this by closing the socket in the
middle of a sendfile operation, while still allowing it to be
aborted -- something that can't be done if it stays in the file
driver.
The race still occurs if the controlling process dies in the short
window between dispatching the sendfile operation and the dup(2)
call in the driver, but it's much less likely to happen now.
A proper fix is in the works.
--
Notable functional differences:
* The use_threads option for file:sendfile/5 no longer has any
effect.
* The file-specific DTrace probes have been removed. The same
effect can be achieved with normal tracing together with the
nif__entry/nif__return probes to track scheduling.
--
OTP-14256
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bootstrap/bin/start.boot
bootstrap/bin/start_clean.boot
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