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Add initial support for dirty schedulers.
There are two types of dirty schedulers: CPU schedulers and I/O
schedulers. By default, there are as many dirty CPU schedulers as there are
normal schedulers and as many dirty CPU schedulers online as normal
schedulers online. There are 10 dirty I/O schedulers (similar to the choice
of 10 as the default for async threads).
By default, dirty schedulers are disabled and conditionally compiled
out. To enable them, you must pass --enable-dirty-schedulers to the
top-level configure script when building Erlang/OTP.
Current dirty scheduler support requires the emulator to be built with SMP
support. This restriction will be lifted in the future.
You can specify the number of dirty schedulers with the command-line
options +SDcpu (for dirty CPU schedulers) and +SDio (for dirty I/O
schedulers). The +SDcpu option is similar to the +S option in that it takes
two numbers separated by a colon: C1:C2, where C1 specifies the number of
dirty schedulers available and C2 specifies the number of dirty schedulers
online. The +SDPcpu option allows numbers of dirty CPU schedulers available
and dirty CPU schedulers online to be specified as percentages, similar to
the existing +SP option for normal schedulers. The number of dirty CPU
schedulers created and dirty CPU schedulers online may not exceed the
number of normal schedulers created and normal schedulers online,
respectively. The +SDio option takes only a single number specifying the
number of dirty I/O schedulers available and online. There is no support
yet for programmatically changing at run time the number of dirty CPU
schedulers online via erlang:system_flag/2. Also, changing the number of
normal schedulers online via erlang:system_flag(schedulers_online,
NewSchedulersOnline) should ensure that there are no more dirty CPU
schedulers than normal schedulers, but this is not yet implemented. You can
retrieve the number of dirty schedulers by passing dirty_cpu_schedulers,
dirty_cpu_schedulers_online, or dirty_io_schedulers to
erlang:system_info/1.
Currently only NIFs are able to access dirty scheduler
functionality. Neither drivers nor BIFs currently support dirty
schedulers. This restriction will be addressed in the future.
If dirty scheduler support is present in the runtime, the initial status
line Erlang prints before presenting its interactive prompt will include
the indicator "[ds:C1:C2:I]" where "ds" indicates "dirty schedulers", "C1"
indicates the number of dirty CPU schedulers available, "C2" indicates the
number of dirty CPU schedulers online, and "I" indicates the number of
dirty I/O schedulers.
Document The dirty NIF API in the erl_nif man page. The API closely follows
Rickard Green's presentation slides from his talk "Future Extensions to the
Native Interface", presented at the 2011 Erlang Factory held in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Rickard's slides are available online at
http://bit.ly/1m34UHB .
Document the new erl command-line options, the additions to
erlang:system_info/1, and also add the erlang:system_flag/2 dirty scheduler
documentation even though it's not yet implemented.
To determine whether the dirty NIF API is available, native code can check
to see whether the C preprocessor macro ERL_NIF_DIRTY_SCHEDULER_SUPPORT is
defined. To check if dirty schedulers are available at run time, native
code can call the boolean enif_have_dirty_schedulers() function, and Erlang
code can call erlang:system_info(dirty_cpu_schedulers), which raises
badarg if no dirty scheduler support is available.
Add a simple dirty NIF test to the emulator NIF suite.
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Both crypto and asn1 are supported.
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The reload mechanism is an odd feature that does not harmonize
with how module upgrade is otherwise done. We do not want its presence
to hinder future development of code loading and upgrade.
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* fm/enif_is_number:
Add NIF function enif_is_number
Conflicts:
erts/emulator/beam/erl_nif_api_funcs.h
OTP-9629
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Conflicts:
erts/aclocal.m4
erts/include/internal/ethread_header_config.h.in
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This function allows for easily determining if a term represents
or not a number (integer, float, small or big).
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Add the enif_is_exception function to allow callers to determine
whether an ERL_NIF_TERM represents an exception. (Currently the only
supported exception is badarg since only enif_make_badarg exists, but
this will likely be expanded in future releases.) This allows NIF code
to call other NIF functions that return ERL_NIF_TERM and properly
check to see if the returned terms are exceptions. Without the
enif_is_exception function, developers have to create their own means
of checking whether a function creates an exception, such as returning
boolean success/failure indicators or some other special value
indicating that an exception is in effect.
The declaration of enif_is_exception in erl_nif_api_funcs.h respects
the order of declarations required to keep compatibility on Windows.
Add a new test to verify the operation of enif_is_exception.
Modify the erl_nif man page to add a description of enif_is_exception
and also to clarify the requirements of calling the enif_make_badarg
function. If code calls enif_make_badarg, the env passed in gets set
with exception information and so the return value of the calling
function MUST be the badarg term returned from enif_make_badarg. Also
clarify that the result of enif_make_badarg may be passed only to
enif_is_exception and not to any other NIF API functions.
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In the erl_nif documentation, clarify how and when NIF resource
objects can be deallocated. Specifically, add focus for the case of
calling enif_release_resource immediately after obtaining a resource
term from enif_make_resource, since this is likely to be a common
approach NIFs use to manage resources.
Also fix a couple misspellings in the erl_nif documentation.
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enif_realloc_binary return int
enif_alloc/enif_free does not accept env as first argument.
enif_send return int
enif_self in alphabetic order
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Also made the SEEALSO link at the bottom of erl_nif.xml more "erlangish".
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New NIF features:
Send messages from a NIF, or from thread created by NIF, to any local
process (enif_send)
Store terms between NIF calls (enif_alloc_env, enif_make_copy)
Create binary terms with user defined memory management
(enif_make_resource_binary)
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Add new NIF API functions
- enif_make_atom_len
- enif_make_existing_atom_len
- enif_make_string_len
These are basically the same as enif_make_atom,
enif_make_existing_atom and enif_make_string except that the
new functions require a length parameter instead of a
null-terminated C-string.
Signed-off-by: Tuncer Ayaz <[email protected]>
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Add new NIF API functions
- enif_get_atom_length
- enif_get_list_length
Signed-off-by: Tuncer Ayaz <[email protected]>
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Add new NIF API functions
- enif_is_list
- enif_is_tuple
Signed-off-by: Tuncer Ayaz <[email protected]>
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New NIF API function enif_make_new_binary
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Fix a couple trivial typos in erl_nif.xml.
Signed-off-by: Tuncer Ayaz <[email protected]>
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Driver API for multi-threading made available for NIFs.
Support for mempory managed (garbage collected) resource objects.
A way to pass "pointers" to native data structures between C and
Erlang in a safe way.
Support for references, floats and term comparison.
Various new functions, like enif_inspect_iolist_as_binary,
enif_make_sub_binary, enif_get_string, enif_get_atom,
enif_make_tuple_from_array, enif_make_list_from_array,
enif_make_existing_atom.
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Driver API for multi-threading made available for NIFs.
Support for mempory managed (garbage collected) resource objects.
A way to pass "pointers" to native data structures between C and
Erlang in a safe way.
Support for references, floats and term comparison.
Various new functions, like enif_inspect_iolist_as_binary,
enif_make_sub_binary, enif_get_string, enif_get_atom,
enif_make_tuple_from_array, enif_make_list_from_array,
enif_make_existing_atom.
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Driver API for multi-threading made available for NIFs.
Support for mempory managed (garbage collected) resource objects.
A way to pass "pointers" to native data structures between C and
Erlang in a safe way.
Various new functions, like enif_inspect_iolist_as_binary,
enif_make_sub_binary, enif_get_string, enif_get_atom,
enif_make_tuple_from_array, enif_make_list_from_array,
enif_make_existing_atom.
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environment after a number of bugs are fixed and some features
are added in the documentation build process.
- The arity calculation is updated.
- The module prefix used in the function names for bif's are
removed in the generated links so the links will look like
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2
instead of
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2
- Enhanced the menu positioning in the html documentation when a
new page is loaded.
- A number of corrections in the generation of man pages (thanks
to Sergei Golovan)
- Moved some man pages to more apropriate sections, pages in
section 4 moved to 5 and pages in 6 moved to 7.
- The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so OTP's
build process can be used for non OTP applications.
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NIF function prototypes in order to allow more than 3 function
arguments. Also an incompatible change in the return value of
erlang:load_nif/2. Added support for references, floats and term
comparison in NIFs. Read more in the documentation of erl_nif and
erlang:load_nif/2.
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