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2014-02-24ose,erts: Specify name for tsd keysLukas Larsson
This simplified debugging on OSE and also limits the number of ppdata keys that are created when beam is restarted.
2014-02-24ose: Force atleast one async thread for oseLukas Larsson
This is needed because a file has to be opened and operated on in the same process at all times. Using async threads guarantee this.
2014-01-28initial support for dirty schedulers and dirty NIFsSteve Vinoski
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.
2014-01-24Disable scheduler utilization balancing if +scl true is passedRickard Green
2014-01-23Add support for scheduler utilization balancingRickard Green
For more information see documentation of the new command line argument +sub
2014-01-10erts: Replace tab with space for proper alignmentLukas Larsson
2013-09-02Silence gcc warnings in non-smp buildLukas Larsson
2013-08-29add erl option to set schedulers by percentagesSteve Vinoski
For applications where measurements show enhanced performance from the use of a non-default number of emulator scheduler threads, having to accurately set the right number of scheduler threads across multiple hosts each with different numbers of logical processors is difficult because the erl +S option requires absolute numbers of scheduler threads and scheduler threads online to be specified. To address this issue, add a +SP option to erl, similar to the existing +S option but allowing the number of scheduler threads and scheduler threads online to be set as percentages of logical processors configured and logical processors available, respectively. For example, "+SP 50:25" sets the number of scheduler threads to 50% of the logical processors configured, and the number of scheduler threads online to 25% of the logical processors available. The +SP option also interacts with any settings specified with the +S option, such that the combination of options "+S 4:4 +SP 50:50" (in either order) results in 2 scheduler threads and 2 scheduler threads online. Add documentation for the +SP option. Add tests for the +SP option to scheduler_SUITE. Add tests and documentation for two existing features of the +S option: +S 0:0 resets the scheduler thread count and scheduler threads online count to their defaults, and specifying negative numbers for +S results in those values being subtracted from the default values for the host.
2013-07-09Make emulator arguments available via the system_info BIFRickard Green
erlang:system_info(emu_args)
2013-06-12Merge branch 'rickard/+sfwi/OTP-11164' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/+sfwi/OTP-11164: erts: Add the +sfwi system flag
2013-06-11erts: Add the +sfwi system flagRickard Green
+sfwi Interval Set scheduler forced wakeup interval. All run queues will be scanned each Interval milliseconds. While there are sleeping schedulers in the system, one scheduler will be woken for each non-empty run queue found. An Interval of zero disables this feature, which also is the default. This feature has been introduced as a temporary workaround for lengthy executing native code, and native code that do not bump reductions properly in OTP. When these bugs have be fixed the +sfwi flag will be removed.
2013-06-04Make term_to_binary yield (trap).happi
2013-05-31Merge branch 'lukas/erts/gc_stat_contention/OTP-10271' into maintLukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/gc_stat_contention/OTP-10271: Replace gc stat lock with sched spec data
2013-05-31Replace gc stat lock with sched spec dataLukas Larsson
2013-05-17Introduce a better id allocation algorithm for PTabsRickard Green
2013-04-03Fix `+sws' and `+swt' system flagsRickard Green
2013-04-03Be less eager requesting wakeup for cleanup jobsRickard Green
2013-02-25Undo removal of ERL_MAX_PORTS os variableLukas Larsson
2013-02-18Add +pc {latin1|unicode} switch and io:printable_range/0Patrik Nyblom
This is the base for implementing configurable ~tp printouts, so that the user can define which characters to view as actually printable in the shell and by io_lib:format. The functionality is neither documented nor used in this commit
2013-02-11Make prim_file skip invalid filenames in unicode modePatrik Nyblom
The fix affects list_dir and read_link. Raw filenames are now never produced, just consumed even if +fnu or +fna is used on Linux etc. This also adds the options to get error return or error handler warning messages with +fn{u|a}{i|w|e} as an option to erl. This is still not documented and there needs to be other versions of read_dir and read_link to facilitate reading of all types of filenames and links. A check that we will not change to an invalid directory is also needed.
2013-01-25Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-01-23Merge branch 'sverk/r16/utf8-atoms'Sverker Eriksson
* sverk/r16/utf8-atoms: erl_interface: Fix bug when transcoding atoms from and to UTF8 erl_interface: Changed erlang_char_encoding interface erts: Testcase doing unicode atom printout with ~w erl_interface: even more utf8 atom stuff erts: Fix bug in analyze_utf8 causing faulty latin1 detection Add UTF-8 node name support for epmd workaround... Fix merge conflict with hasse UTF-8 atom documentation test case erl_interface: utf8 atoms continued Add utf8 atom distribution test cases atom fixes for NIFs and atom_to_binary UTF-8 support for distribution Implement UTF-8 atom support for jinterface erl_interface: Enable decode of unicode atoms stdlib: Fix printing of unicode atoms erts: Change internal representation of atoms to utf8 erts: Refactor rename DFLAG(S)_INTERNAL_TAGS for conformity Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/io.c OTP-10753
2013-01-23Merge branch 'egil/fix-win-float-exponent/OTP-10751'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* egil/fix-win-float-exponent/OTP-10751: erts: Force windows to use two-digit exponent
2013-01-23Merge branch 'rickard/async-default/OTP-10736'Rickard Green
* rickard/async-default/OTP-10736: Use async threads by default
2013-01-23Merge branch 'rickard/sched-wakeup-other/OTP-10661'Rickard Green
* rickard/sched-wakeup-other/OTP-10661: Change proposed scheduler wakeup strategy to be the default
2013-01-23Merge branch 'rickard/+stbt/OTP-10668'Rickard Green
* rickard/+stbt/OTP-10668: Add +stbt erl command line switch
2013-01-22erts: Force windows to use two-digit exponentBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
sprintf on windows uses a three-digit exponent default
2013-01-21Use async threads by defaultRickard Green
2013-01-16UTF-8 support for distributionRickard Green
2013-01-08Add +stbt erl command line switchRickard Green
2013-01-02Change proposed scheduler wakeup strategy to be the defaultRickard Green
2012-12-20Fix emulator +fna optionPatrik Nyblom
2012-12-07Merge branch 'rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336' into ↵Rickard Green
rickard/r16/port-optimizations/OTP-10336 * rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336: Change annotate level for emacs-22 in cerl Update etp-commands Add documentation on communication in Erlang Add support for busy port message queue Add driver callback epilogue Implement true asynchronous signaling between processes and ports Add erl_drv_[send|output]_term Move busy port flag Use rwlock for driver list Optimize management of port tasks Improve configuration of process and port tables Remove R9 compatibility features Use ptab functionality also for ports Prepare for use of ptab functionality also for ports Atomic port state Generalize process table implementation Implement functionality for delaying thread progress from unmanaged threads Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/beam/beam_bif_load.c erts/emulator/beam/beam_bp.c erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c erts/emulator/beam/bif.c erts/emulator/beam/copy.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_message.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_port_task.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_process_lock.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/export.h erts/emulator/beam/global.h erts/emulator/beam/io.c erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c erts/emulator/sys/vxworks/sys.c erts/emulator/test/port_SUITE.erl erts/etc/unix/cerl.src erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam erts/preloaded/src/prim_inet.erl lib/hipe/cerl/erl_bif_types.erl lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml lib/kernel/src/inet.erl
2012-12-07Implement true asynchronous signaling between processes and portsRickard Green
2012-12-03Improve configuration of process and port tablesRickard Green
2012-12-03Remove R9 compatibility featuresRickard Green
2012-12-03Generalize process table implementationRickard Green
2012-08-20Merge branch 'maint'Patrik Nyblom
Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/preloaded/ebin/init.beam lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml lib/stdlib/test/filename_SUITE.erl
2012-08-14Make get/putenv and erlexec understand UnicodePatrik Nyblom
Putenv and getenv needs to convert to the proper environment strings in Unicode depending on platform and user settings for filename encoding. Also erlexec needs to pass environment strings in an appropriate way for kernel to pick up. All environment strings on the command line, as well as home directory, is now passed in UTF8 on windows and in whatever encoding you have on Unix, kernel tries to convert all parameters and environments from UTF8 before making strings.
2012-06-04Merge branch 'maint'Lukas Larsson
* maint: Remove stale code for hybrid heap and incremental GC Remove the hipe_bifs:show_message_area/0 BIF Remove support for erlang:system_info(global_heaps_size) Remove the erlang:garbage_collect_message_area/0 BIF Remove workarounds for hybrid and shared heaps in test suites Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/beam/erl_message.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif2.tab lib/hipe/cerl/erl_bif_types.erl
2012-05-10Remove stale code for hybrid heap and incremental GCBjörn Gustavsson
The hybrid heap emulator was last working in the non-SMP R11B run-time system. When the constant pools were introduced in R12B, the hybrid heap emulator was not updated to handle them. At this point, the harm from reduced readability of the code is greater than any potential usefulness of keeping the code.
2012-04-27Merge branch 'maint'Sverker Eriksson
Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c
2012-04-27Merge branch 'rickard/proc-sched/OTP-9892'Rickard Green
* rickard/proc-sched/OTP-9892: Teach etp-commands to understand new emulator internal data structures Optimize process state changes Optimize process table access Implement possibility to use ordinary mutexes as process locks Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types
2012-04-27Teach etp-commands to understand new emulator internal data structuresRickard Green
2012-04-25Merge branch 'rickard/driver_system_info/OTP-10059' into maint-r15Erlang/OTP
* rickard/driver_system_info/OTP-10059: Clear number of async threads if no thread support
2012-04-25Merge branch 'rickard/sched-busy-wait/OTP-10044' into maint-r15Erlang/OTP
* rickard/sched-busy-wait/OTP-10044: Add switch controlling scheduler busy wait Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h
2012-04-23Merge branch 'rickard/sched-wakeup-other/OTP-10033' into ↵Rickard Green
rickard/sched-wakeup-other-r15b01/OTP-10033 Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/vsn.mk
2012-04-23Add switch controlling scheduler busy waitRickard Green
2012-04-23Implement proposal for new scheduler wakeup strategyRickard Green
2012-04-18Clear number of async threads if no thread supportRickard Green