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If parallel make is used, several instance of 'erlc' is likely to
be invoked at once. Therefore, the default binding of schedulers
to CPU cores will do no good. (With this change, the build of
Erlang/OTP with six threads finished in about 7 minutes; without in
about 11 minutes.)
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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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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.
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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'.
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heart:get_cmd/0 is documented to return an empty string if the command is
cleared. get_cmd/0 returns 2 extra bytes: 1 byte for the trailing null,
1 byte from the op (the op is an unsigned char and 2 bytes are allocated
for it in the returned buffer).
1> heart:get_cmd().
{ok,[0,0]}
2> heart:set_cmd("echo hello").
ok
3> heart:get_cmd().
{ok,[101,99,104,111,32,104,101,108,108,111,0,0]}
4> heart:clear_cmd().
ok
5> heart:get_cmd().
{ok,[0,99]}
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* cg/fix-pointer-dereference:
Fix some wrong pointer dereferences
OTP-9194
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* jp/dependencies_makefile:
Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3)
Conflicts:
lib/compiler/test/compile_SUITE.erl
OTP-9065
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This is useful when a project is built with Makefiles and erlc(1)
instead of EMakefiles. Tracking dependencies by hand is error-prone and
it becomes painful when using external application headers like EUnit's
one.
A dependencies Makefile will look like this:
module.beam: module.erl \
/usr/local/lib/erlang/lib/eunit-2.1.4/include/eunit.hrl \
header.hrl
When included in the main Makefile, 'module' will be recompiled only
when needed.
GCC offers the same feature and new erlc(1) options are compatible with
it.
More informations at:
http://wiki.github.com/dumbbell/otp/dependencies-makefile
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The AI_V4MAPPED flag is falling out of grace in modern
IPv6 stacks, for security reasons, e.g. FreeBSD do not
document it any longer. The AI_ADDRCONFIG flag have
got unclear semantics on the same OS.
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a link to run_test available
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* sf/erts_de_busy_limit:
Add flag-based setting for the distribution buffer busy limit
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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.
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Truncate buffers used to hold command line arguments.
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Check buffer operations on input from escripts, the command line and
environment variables.
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Truncate buffer operations on environment variables.
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Check buffer operations and increase the size of the buffer used for
holding command line arguments, since the "-D" switch will be expanded
into 3 arguments when passed to erl.
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Check length of buffers used with environment variables and debug
messages.
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The scheduler wakeup threshold is now possible to adjust at system boot.
For more information see the `+swt' command line argument of `erl'.
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* rickard/ethread-rewrite/OTP-8544:
Rewrite ethread library
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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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When building with "--as-needed" linker flags on Linux the build will
fail. This has now been fixed.
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* peppe/common_test_r14_dev_2:
Misc documentation updates
Add documentation for run_test program
Step vsn for test_server to 3.4
Make {repeat*,N} property in group execute the group N times exactly
Fix so that ct_run converts relative diretories in the code path to absolute
Fix bug in handling framework:end_tc timeouts
Fix bug that prevents the interactive shell mode to start properly
Fix failing multiply timetrap test case
Minor fixes in code and test suites
Add support for executing pre-loaded suites (e.g. modules loaded as binaries)
Add test suite for remote loading of binary suites
Fix error with {repeat,0} property in groups causing double iterations
Add support for config info functions (e.g. init_per_suite/0)
Add support for dynamic timetrap handling
Have end_per_testcase run even after timetrap_timeout and abort_testcase
Flush old DOWN messages in demonitor
Add groups in test specifications
Add new tests for test case groups and test specifications
Improve and fix various test suites
Add event_handler_init start flag that can pass init arguments to event handlers
...
OTP-8703 peppe/common_test_r14_dev_2
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With -erl_args it's possible to divide the start options on the command line and this way specify explicitly which options are meant for Common Test, and which are meant for other OTP applications (or ERTS).
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Common Test may now be started with the program run_test instead of the legacy shell script with the same name.
Minor updates have also been made to the Webtool application.
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* ms/inet_gethost-safe-debug-output:
Truncate debug messages
OTP-8615 ms/inet_gethost-safe-debug-output
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When the undocumented ERL_INET_GETHOST_DEBUG environment variable
is set to 5, very long hostnames can overflow the buffer used to
construct the debug message. Truncate debug messages if they exceed
the size of the buffer.
export ERL_INET_GETHOST_DEBUG=5
inet:gethostbyname(lists:duplicate(5000,"x")).
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improvements.
Most notable:
Lots of cross compilation improvements. The old cross compilation
support was more or less non-existing as well as broken. Please,
note that the cross compilation support should still be
considered as experimental. Also note that old cross compilation
configurations cannot be used without modifications. For more
information on cross compiling Erlang/OTP see the
$ERL_TOP/xcomp/README file.
Support for staged install using <url
href="http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html">D
ESTDIR</url>. The old broken INSTALL_PREFIX has also been fixed.
For more information see the $ERL_TOP/README file.
Documentation of the release target of the top Makefile. For more
information see the $ERL_TOP/README file.
make install now by default creates relative symbolic links
instead of absolute ones. For more information see the
$ERL_TOP/README file.
$ERL_TOP/configure --help=recursive now works and prints help for
all applications with configure scripts.
Doing make install, or make release directly after make all no
longer triggers miscellaneous rebuilds.
Existing bootstrap system is now used when doing make install, or
make release without a preceding make all.
The crypto and ssl applications use the same runtime library path
when dynamically linking against libssl.so and libcrypto.so. The
runtime library search path has also been extended.
The configure scripts of erl_interface and odbc now search for
thread libraries and thread library quirks the same way as erts
do.
The configure script of the odbc application now also looks for
odbc libraries in lib64 and lib/64 directories when building on a
64-bit system.
The config.h.in file in the erl_interface application is now
automatically generated in instead of statically updated which
reduces the risk of configure tests without any effect.
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It is now possible to increase or decrease the maximum number of atoms
the VM can handle. The default value is 1048576 (1024*1024).
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* cf/compile_warning_as_error:
Add option -Werror in erlc(1)
compile: add flag warnings_as_errors to treat warnings as errors
compile.erl: remove trailing whitespace
OTP-8382 The -Werror option for erlc and the compiler option
warnings_as_errors will cause warnings to be treated as errors.
(Thanks to Christopher Faulet.)
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Like in gcc, this option treats warnings as errors.
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* 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.
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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.
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The wx application will only work in the SMP emulator,
so the -wx option for 'dialyzer' must force the -smp
option when starting the emulator.
Make sure that -wx in *any* position on the command
line (not only as the first argument) forces the
SMP emulator.
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