aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2014-09-25Merge branch 'rickard/eager-check-io/OTP-12117' into ↵Rickard Green
rickard/maint-17/eager-check-io/OTP-12117 * rickard/eager-check-io/OTP-12117: Introduce support for eager check I/O scheduling Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2014-09-25Introduce support for eager check I/O schedulingRickard Green
2014-09-05Merge branch 'vinoski/enif-schedule-nif' into maintRickard Green
OTP-12128 * vinoski/enif-schedule-nif: Fix leak of NIF exports Use separate allocation type for NIF export
2014-09-05Use separate allocation type for NIF exportRickard Green
2014-08-29Merge branch 'rickard/runnable-trace-ooo-bug/OTP-12105' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/runnable-trace-ooo-bug/OTP-12105: Fix busy_port_SUITE:io_to_busy test-case Ensure "runnable port" trace messages are not sent out of order Ensure "runnable proc" trace messages are not sent out of order
2014-08-28add enif_schedule_nif() to NIF APISteve Vinoski
In the #erlang IRC channel Anthony Ramine once mentioned the idea of allowing a NIF to use an emulator trap, similar to a BIF trap, to schedule another NIF for execution. This is exactly how dirty NIFs were implemented for Erlang/OTP 17.0, so this commit refactors and generalizes that dirty NIF code to support a new enif_schedule_nif() API function. The enif_schedule_nif() function allows a long-running NIF to be broken into separate NIF invocations. The NIF first executes part of the long-running task, then calls enif_schedule_nif() to schedule a NIF for later execution to continue the task. Any number of NIFs can be scheduled in this manner, one after another. Since the emulator regains control between invocations, this helps avoid problems caused by native code tying up scheduler threads for too long. The enif_schedule_nif() function also replaces the original experimental dirty NIF API. The function takes a flags parameter that a caller can use to indicate the NIF should be scheduled onto either a dirty CPU scheduler thread, a dirty I/O scheduler thread, or scheduled as a regular NIF on a regular scheduler thread. With this change, the original experimental enif_schedule_dirty_nif(), enif_schedule_dirty_nif_finalizer() and enif_dirty_nif_finalizer() API functions are no longer needed and have been removed. Explicit scheduling of a dirty NIF finalization function is no longer necessary; if an application wants similar functionality, it can have a dirty NIF just invoke enif_schedule_nif() to schedule a non-dirty NIF to complete its task. Lift the restriction that dirty NIFs can't call enif_make_badarg() to raise an exception. This was a problem with the original dirty NIF API because it forced developers to get and check all incoming arguments in a regular NIF, and then schedule the dirty NIF which then had to get all the arguments again. Now, the argument checking can be done in the dirty NIF and it can call enif_make_badarg() itself to flag incorrect arguments. Extend the ErlNifFunc struct with a new flags field that allows NIFs to be declared as dirty. The default value for this field is 0, indicating a regular NIF, so it's backwards compatible with all existing statically initialized ErlNifFunc struct instances, and so such instances require no code changes. Defining the flags field with a value of ERL_NIF_DIRTY_JOB_CPU_BOUND indicates that the NIF should execute on a dirty CPU scheduler thread, or defining it with a value of ERL_NIF_DIRTY_JOB_IO_BOUND indicates that the NIF should execute on a dirty I/O scheduler thread. Any other flags field value causes a NIF library loading error. Extend the ErlNifEntry struct with a new options field that indicates whether a NIF library was built with support for optional features such as dirty NIFs. When a NIF library is loaded, the runtime checks the options field to ensure compatibility. If a NIF library built with dirty NIF support is loaded into a runtime that does not support dirty NIFs, and the library defines one or more ErlNifFunc entries with non-zero flags fields indicating dirty NIFs, a NIF library loading error results. There is no error if a NIF library built with dirty NIF support is loaded into a runtime that does not support dirty NIFs but the library does not have any dirty NIFs. It is also not an error if a library without dirty NIF support is loaded into a runtime built with dirty NIF support. Add documentation and tests for enif_schedule_nif().
2014-08-22Ensure "runnable proc" trace messages are not sent out of orderRickard Green
2014-02-24Merge branch 'lukas/ose/master/OTP-11334'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/ose/master/OTP-11334: (71 commits) erts: Fix unix efile assert ose: Use -O2 when building ose: Expand OSE docs ose: Add dummy ttsl driver ose: Cleanup cleanup of mutex selection defines ose: Polish mmap configure checks ose: Add ose specific x-compile flags ose: Updating fd_driver and spawn_driver for OSE ose: Updating event and signal API for OSE ose: Cleanup of mutex selection defines win32: Compile erl_log.exe ose: Remove uneccesary define ose: Fix ssl configure test for osx erts: Fix sys_msg_dispatcher assert ose: Fix broken doc links ose: Thread priorities configurable from lmconf ose: Yielding the cpu is done "the OSE" way ose: Start using ppdata for tse key ose: Do not use spinlocks on OSE ose: Fix support for crypto ... Conflicts: lib/crypto/c_src/crypto.c
2014-02-24ose: Add fair scheduling yieldsLukas Larsson
This is needed on OSs that do not do round robin scheduling of threads.
2014-02-24erts: Make source file info available in lcLukas Larsson
2014-02-24further enhancements for dirty schedulersSteve Vinoski
Add support for setting the number of dirty CPU schedulers online via erlang:system_flag/2. Assuming the emulator is built with dirty schedulers enabled, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online may not be less than 1, nor greater than the number of dirty CPU schedulers available, nor greater than the number of normal schedulers online. Dirty CPU scheduler threads that are taken offline via system_flag/2 are suspended. The number of dirty CPU schedulers online may be adjusted independently of the number of normal schedulers online, but if system_flag/2 is used to set the number of normal schedulers online to a value less than the current number of normal schedulers online, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online is decreased proportionally. Likewise, if the number of normal schedulers online is increased, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online is increased proportionally. For example, if 8 normal schedulers and 4 dirty CPU schedulers are online, and system_flag/2 is called to set the number of normal schedulers online to 4, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online is also decreased by half, to 2. Subsequently setting the number of normal schedulers online back to 8 also sets the number of dirty CPU schedulers online back to 4. Augment the system_flag/2 documentation in the erlang man page to explain this relationship between schedulers_online and dirty_cpu_schedulers_online. Also ensure that all dirty CPU and I/O schedulers are suspended when multi-scheduling is blocked via system_flag/2, and brought back online when multi-scheduling is unblocked. Add Rickard Green's rewritten check_enqueue_in_prio_queue() function that inspects process state more thoroughly to determine if to enqueue it and if so on what queue, including dirty queues when appropriate. Make sure dirty NIF jobs do not trigger erlang:system_monitor long_schedule messages. Add more dirty scheduler testing to the scheduler test suite. Remove the erts_no_dirty_cpu_schedulers_online global variable, since it's no longer needed. Execute dirty NIFs on a normal scheduler thread while multi-scheduling blocking is in effect. Evacuate any dirty jobs residing in the dirty run queues over to a normal run queue when multi-scheduling is blocked. Allow dirty schedulers to execute aux work. Set the dirty run queues halt_in_progress flag when halting the normal schedulers. Change dirty scheduler numbers to a structure including both scheduler number and type, either dirty CPU or dirty I/O. Add some assertions to ensure that dirty CPU schedulers operate only on dirty CPU scheduler process flags, and the same for dirty I/O schedulers.
2014-01-28Merge branch 'vinoski/ds'Rickard Green
* vinoski/ds: initial support for dirty schedulers and dirty NIFs
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.
2014-01-27Merge branch 'sverk/misc-bug-fixes'Sverker Eriksson
OTP-11618 * sverk/misc-bug-fixes: erts: Fix faulty assert in match spec engine. erts: Fix crash when comparing very large floats with integers erts: Refactor big-float compare on HALFWORD to use C-stack erts: Fix halfword compile errors in ESTACK
2014-01-24Merge branch 'rickard/load_balance/OTP-11385'Rickard Green
* rickard/load_balance/OTP-11385: Add support for scheduler utilization balancing
2014-01-23Add support for scheduler utilization balancingRickard Green
For more information see documentation of the new command line argument +sub
2014-01-22erts: Refactor big-float compare on HALFWORD to use C-stackSverker Eriksson
for the temporary conversion from float to big. Preparation for coming bugfix of 'big_buf' array size.
2014-01-10erts: Remove the extra_root feature from the process structureSverker Eriksson
as we don't use it and instead have the feature to disable GC during trapping BIFs.
2013-12-07Merge branch 'rickard/garbage_collect/OTP-11388'Rickard Green
* rickard/garbage_collect/OTP-11388: Parallel check_process_code when code_server purge a module Functionality for disabling garbage collection Use asynchronous check_process_code in code_parallel_SUITE Execution of system tasks in context of another process Conflicts: bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/hipe_unified_loader.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_internal.beam
2013-11-18Functionality for disabling garbage collectionRickard Green
Being able to disable garbage collection over context switches vastly simplifies implementation of yielding native code that builds large or complex data structures on the heap. This since the heap can be left in an inconsistent state over the context switch.
2013-11-18Execution of system tasks in context of another processRickard Green
A process requesting a system task to be executed in the context of another process will be notified by a message when the task has executed. This message will be on the form: {RequestType, RequestId, Pid, Result}. A process requesting a system task to be executed can set priority on the system task. The requester typically set the same priority on the task as its own process priority, and by this avoiding priority inversion. A request for execution of a system task is made by calling the statically linked in NIF erts_internal:request_system_task(Pid, Prio, Request). This is an undocumented ERTS internal function that should remain so. It should *only* be called from BIF implementations. Currently defined system tasks are: * garbage_collect * check_process_code Further system tasks can and will be implemented in the future. The erlang:garbage_collect/[1,2] and erlang:check_process_code/[2,3] BIFs are now implemented using system tasks. Both the 'garbage_collect' and the 'check_process_code' operations perform or may perform garbage_collections. By doing these via the system task functionality all garbage collect operations in the system will be performed solely in the context of the process being garbage collected. This makes it possible to later implement functionality for disabling garbage collection of a process over context switches. Newly introduced BIFs: * erlang:garbage_collect/2 - The new second argument is an option list. Introduced option: * {async, RequestId} - making it possible for users to issue asynchronous garbage collect requests. * erlang:check_process_code/3 - The new third argument is an option list. Introduced options: * {async, RequestId} - making it possible for users to issue asynchronous check process code requests. * {allow_gc, boolean()} - making it possible to issue requests that aren't allowed to garbage collect (operation will abort if gc should be needed). These options have been introduced as a preparation for parallelization of check_process_code operations when the code_server is about to purge a module.
2013-09-30erts: Remove ASSERT_EXPR macroSverker Eriksson
2013-06-12Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
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.
2013-06-11Merge branch 'pan/happi/yield_in_term_to_binary' into maintOTP_R16B01_RC1Patrik Nyblom
* pan/happi/yield_in_term_to_binary: Add testcase to stress extra_root term_to_binary: Remove debug code and set production trap levels Teach erl_gc:offset_rootset about extra_root Teach external.c to handle reallocs before compression Make all steps ofterm_to_binary work in chunks and yield Make term_to_binary yield (trap). OTP-11163
2013-06-05Merge branch 'pan/r16b01/system_monitor_long_schedule/OTP-11067' into maintPatrik Nyblom
* pan/r16b01/system_monitor_long_schedule/OTP-11067: Minor spelling correction Add system_monitor of long_schedule
2013-06-05Make all steps ofterm_to_binary work in chunks and yieldPatrik Nyblom
Rewrite and extend of Happi's initial work Extra_root to process structure to enable GC of state - Changed the process structure to point to a separate struct, the struct also contains a destructor function to allow for proper cleanup. Rewrote encode_size_struct and enc_term to have internal versions with reduction counters which will result in interrupt for later restart when the counter reaches zero - removed the EWA_STACK from Happis version and directly save the ESTACK's and WSTACK's in the above mentioned struct (or array thereof) that are pointed out from the process structure. The destructor will take care of the deallocation in case of process death. Added ESTACK and WSTACK macros to save and restore stack and to change allocator, which makes the previously mentioned stack-save work. Rewrote enc_term to not store pointers on the stack, and use one WSTACK for commands etc and another ESTACK for Eterms - Slightly different than Happis version to make halfword code simpler. Rewrote encode_size_struct2 so that it does not store pointers on the stack, also switched to ESTACK instead of WSTACK, this also handles halfword correctly. Added interfaces for chunkwise compression, that are used from term_to_binary/2 when the compressed option is given.
2013-06-04Make term_to_binary yield (trap).happi
2013-06-04erts: Use carrier pool for migration of carriersRickard Green
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
2013-05-30Merge branch 'rickard/ptab-id-alloc/OTP-11077' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/ptab-id-alloc/OTP-11077: Introduce a better id allocation algorithm for PTabs
2013-05-17Introduce a better id allocation algorithm for PTabsRickard Green
2013-05-16Merge branch 'rickard/nosuspend/OTP-11076' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/nosuspend/OTP-11076: Only verify not busy for erlang:send(Port, Msg, [nosuspend]) until scheduled
2013-05-13Print process memory usage info in crash dumpLukas Larsson
2013-05-06Only verify not busy for erlang:send(Port, Msg, [nosuspend]) until scheduledRickard Green
2013-05-02Add system_monitor of long_schedulePatrik Nyblom
2013-04-03Be less eager requesting wakeup for cleanup jobsRickard Green
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
2012-12-03Move busy port flagRickard Green
2012-12-03Improve configuration of process and port tablesRickard Green
2012-12-03Use ptab functionality also for portsRickard Green
2012-12-03Prepare for use of ptab functionality also for portsRickard Green
2012-12-03Atomic port stateRickard Green
2012-12-03Generalize process table implementationRickard Green
2012-11-12Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: ssl: Adopt test case to not take so long Fix bug in erts_port_task_schedule() Use reduction limit in order to determine when to do wakeup Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_port_task.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c
2012-10-09Use reduction limit in order to determine when to do wakeupRickard Green
2012-08-31erts: Refactor tracing to use erts_schedule_thr_prgr_later_opSverker Eriksson
2012-08-31erts: Refactor code loading to use erts_schedule_thr_prgr_later_opSverker Eriksson