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2013-09-04+e should be passed through erlexecLukas 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.
2013-06-11erts: 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.
2013-06-04erts: Use carrier pool for migration of carriersRickard Green
2013-06-03erts: Remove SBMBC allocatorSverker Eriksson
2013-04-03Be less eager requesting wakeup for cleanup jobsRickard Green
2013-02-18Remove newly introduced warning in erlexec.cPatrik Nyblom
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
2013-01-25Merge branch 'pan/fix-compiler-warnings-clang-and-new-gcc'Patrik Nyblom
* pan/fix-compiler-warnings-clang-and-new-gcc: Fix compiler warnings from GCC 4.7.1 on ARCH Linux Fix clang compiler warnings on FreeBSD in erts
2013-01-25Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-01-23Fix clang compiler warnings on FreeBSD in ertsPatrik Nyblom
The following are deliberately left, as I have only a list of compiler warnings and no system to test on: hipe/hipe_x86_signal.c:264:5: warning: no previous prototype for function '_sigaction' [-Wmissing-prototypes] int __SIGACTION(int signum, const struct sigaction *act, struct sigaction *oldact) ^ hipe/hipe_x86_signal.c:222:21: note: expanded from macro '__SIGACTION' ^ 1 warning generated. sys/unix/sys_float.c:835:16: warning: declaration of 'struct exception' will not be visible outside of this function [-Wvisibility] matherr(struct exception *exc) ^ sys/unix/sys_float.c:835:1: warning: no previous prototype for function 'matherr' [-Wmissing-prototypes] matherr(struct exception *exc) ^ 2 warnings generated. drivers/unix/unix_efile.c:1504:11: warning: implicit declaration of function 'sendfile' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] retval = sendfile(in_fd, out_fd, *offset, SENDFILE_CHUNK_SIZE, ^ 1 warning generated.
2013-01-23Merge branch 'rickard/+stbt/OTP-10668'Rickard Green
* rickard/+stbt/OTP-10668: Add +stbt erl command line switch
2013-01-08Add +stbt erl command line switchRickard 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
2012-12-07Implement true asynchronous signaling between processes and portsRickard Green
2012-12-03Improve configuration of process and port tablesRickard Green
2012-09-28Make cerl -valgrind work with quoted spaces in command lineSverker Eriksson
2012-08-31Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
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.
2012-06-08Merge branch 'lukas/otp/install_with_whitespace/OTP-10107' into maintLukas Larsson
* lukas/otp/install_with_whitespace/OTP-10107: Update to work with space in include path Update to work with whitespace in exec path
2012-06-05Update to work with whitespace in exec pathLukas Larsson
OTP-10106 OTP-10107
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.
2012-04-25Merge 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
2011-11-18Merge branch 'rickard/sched-compact-load/OTP-9695'Rickard Green
* rickard/sched-compact-load/OTP-9695: Add switch that can disable scheduler compaction of load
2011-11-15Add switch that can disable scheduler compaction of loadRickard Green
2011-11-13Optimize memory allocationRickard Green
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.
2011-07-08Use separate memory carriers for small blocksRickard Green
2011-05-20Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2011-05-11erlexec: Make ERL_<version>_FLAGS behave like ERL_AFLAGSBjörn Gustavsson
The contents of the ERL_<version>_FLAGS undocumented environment variable would be added at the end of the command line passed to the BEAM emualator (similar to ERL_ZFLAGS), making it impossible to override (for example) "-smp" with "-smp disable" on the command line. To allow overriding, put the contents of ERL_<version>_FLAGS at the beginning of the command line (similar to ERL_AFLAGS). Since the ERL_<version>_FLAGS variable is undocumented and unsupported, it is OK to change its behaviour in a minor release.
2011-05-11Teach erlexec the -emu_name_exit optionBjörn Gustavsson
It is difficult/impossible to find out whether an invocation of 'erl' will start the smp emulator or the non-smp emulator (short of actually starting the emulator). Therefore we will need a way to ask 'erlexec'.
2010-11-02Merge branch 'sf/erts_de_busy_limit' into devRickard Green
* sf/erts_de_busy_limit: Add flag-based setting for the distribution buffer busy limit
2010-11-02Add flag-based setting for the distribution buffer busy limitScott Lystig Fritchie
Id: OTP-8912 This patch creates a new family of flags with the "+z" prefix. It further creates a new configuration option called "dbbl" (which is the first letter of the name dist_buf_busy_limit). Example usage of this flag would be "+zdbbl 1048576". This patch creates an adjustable buffer limit for the amount of data that may be buffered by the erlang distribution code (in dist.c specifically). Before this patch, this hard-coded constant was used: #define ERTS_DE_BUSY_LIMIT (128*1024) When large binaries are transmitted between nodes (or simply a lot of medium-sized binaries), it is very easy to hit the old 128KB limit. Processes that use the erlang:system_monitor() BIF to monitor system events can be spammed by {monitor, busy_dist_port, ...} message tuples at rates of tens to even hundreds of messages/second. A larger buffer limit will allow processes to buffer more outgoing messages over the distribution. When the buffer limit has been reached, sending processes will be suspended until the buffer size has shrunk. The buffer limit is per distribution channel. A higher limit will give lower latency and higher throughput at the expense of higher memory usage. A variation of this patch has been in commercial production use in at least two companies that the author is aware of. Larger buffer values can reduce the number of {monitor, busy_dist_port, ...} system messages drastically, lower overall messaging latencies, and prevent false timeouts and 'nodedown' messages in extremely busy Mnesia systems. Test suite: there are two tests: a. In erlexec_SUITE.erl to test basic set & get of the value b. In distribution_SUITE.erl, to verify that setting +zdbbl very low will actually change behavior.
2010-10-04erlexec: prevent buffer overflowsMichael Santos
Truncate buffer operations on environment variables.
2010-09-04Add scheduler wakup threshold as command line argumentRickard Green
The scheduler wakeup threshold is now possible to adjust at system boot. For more information see the `+swt' command line argument of `erl'.
2010-08-10Rewrite ethread libraryRickard Green
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.
2010-02-02Add the +t emulator option to change the maximum number of atomsJulien Barbot
It is now possible to increase or decrease the maximum number of atoms the VM can handle. The default value is 1048576 (1024*1024).
2010-01-15Merge branch 'egil/binary-gc' into ccase/r13b04_devErlang/OTP
* egil/binary-gc: Add documentation for binary heap size settings. Add tracing capabilities for binary virtual heap Add min heap size start options to beam and erl Improve binary garbage collection OTP-8370 The default settings for garbage collection of binaries has been adjusted to be less aggressive than in R13B03. It is now also possible configure the settings for binary GC. See the documentation for spawn_opt/2-5, erlang:system_info/1, erlang:system_flag/2, process_flag/2-3, erlang:trace/3, and the documenation for erl for the new command line options +hms and +hmbs.
2010-01-13Add min heap size start options to beam and erlBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
The erl (and beam) start arguments are extended with the following options: * +hms Size, sets the default minimum heap size for processes. * +hmbs Size, sets the default minimum binary virtual heap size for processes. The previous +h Size argument can still be used for backward compatibility purposes.
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP