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* The youngest generation of the heap can now consist of multiple
blocks. Heap fragments and message fragments are added to the
youngest generation when needed without triggering a GC. After
a GC the youngest generation is contained in one single block.
* The off_heap_message_queue process flag has been added. When
enabled all message data in the queue is kept off heap. When
a message is selected from the queue, the message fragment (or
heap fragment) containing the actual message is attached to the
youngest generation. Messages stored off heap is not part of GC.
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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
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Conflicts:
lib/diameter/autoconf/vxworks/sed.general
xcomp/README.md
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* maint:
Use static allocation of process lock queues
Conflicts:
erts/emulator/beam/erl_process_lock.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_process_lock.h
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* rickard/proc-lock-queues/OTP-10163:
Use static allocation of process lock queues
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By using statically allocated lock queues there is no longer
any need for locking corresponding pix lock when process
locks have been transferred after a wait. This costs us 3 words
extra in process structure, but improves performance during
contention.
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* 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
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Seen with valgrind running ets_SUITE:delete_large_tab
or delete_large_named_table.
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The spinlocks used implementing pix-locks have been replaced with
mutexes since they perform better during heavy contention.
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A number of memory allocation optimizations have been implemented. Most
optimizations reduce contention caused by synchronization between
threads during allocation and deallocation of memory. Most notably:
* Synchronization of memory management in scheduler specific allocator
instances has been rewritten to use lock-free synchronization.
* Synchronization of memory management in scheduler specific
pre-allocators has been rewritten to use lock-free synchronization.
* The 'mseg_alloc' memory segment allocator now use scheduler specific
instances instead of one instance. Apart from reducing contention
this also ensures that memory allocators always create memory
segments on the local NUMA node on a NUMA system.
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All uses of the old deprecated atomic API in the runtime system
have been replaced with the use of the new atomic API. In a lot of
places this change imply a relaxation of memory barriers used.
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The ethread atomics API now also provide double word size atomics.
Double word size atomics are implemented using native atomic
instructions on x86 (when the cmpxchg8b instruction is available)
and on x86_64 (when the cmpxchg16b instruction is available). On
other hardware where 32-bit atomics or word size atomics are
available, an optimized fallback is used; otherwise, a spinlock,
or a mutex based fallback is used.
The ethread library now performs runtime tests for presence of
hardware features, such as for example SSE2 instructions, instead
of requiring this to be determined at compile time.
There are now functions implementing each atomic operation with the
following implied memory barrier semantics: none, read, write,
acquire, release, and full. Some of the operation-barrier
combinations aren't especially useful. But instead of filtering
useful ones out, and potentially miss a useful one, we implement
them all.
A much smaller set of functionality for native atomics are required
to be implemented than before. More or less only cmpxchg and a
membar macro are required to be implemented for each atomic size.
Other functions will automatically be constructed from these. It is,
of course, often wise to implement more that this if possible from a
performance perspective.
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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.
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