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2014-02-24ose: Do not use spinlocks on OSELukas Larsson
This is because it is very easy to deadlock/livelock inbetween processes on OSE.
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: Change get_envp to ose_get_ppdata for tsdLukas Larsson
There is a system limit on the number of ppdata that is available but that should not be reached, and ppdata is faster than using get_envp.
2014-02-24ose: Debug wait__ does receive_fsem instead of wait_fsemLukas Larsson
This is done in order to catch rogue signals
2014-02-24Added support for ENEA OSELukas Larsson
This port has support for both non-smp and smp. It contains a new way to do io checking in which erts_poll_wait receives the payload of the polled entity. This has implications for all linked-in drivers.
2014-02-23Introduce configure option --with-assumed-cache-line-size=SIZERickard Green
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.
2013-08-08Merge branch 'lukas/erts/ethr_smp_req_native_compiletime/OTP-11196' into maintLukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/ethr_smp_req_native_compiletime/OTP-11196: Bailout if no native implementations are found
2013-07-29Bailout if no native implementations are foundLukas Larsson
Some basic tests are already done in configure. This makes sure we cover all cases by bailing out when compiling as well.
2013-07-18Fix compile error on ARM and GCC < 4.1.0Johannes Weißl
Since b29ecbd (OTP-10418, R15B03) Erlang does not compile anymore with old versions of GCC that do not have atomic ops builtins on platforms where there is no native ethread implementation (e.g. ARM): In file included from ../include/internal/gcc/ethread.h:29, from ../include/internal/ethread.h:354, from beam/erl_threads.h:264, from beam/erl_smp.h:27, from beam/sys.h:413, from hipe/hipe_mkliterals.c:29: ../include/internal/gcc/ethr_membar.h:49:4: error: #error "No __sync_val_compare_and_swap" This patch adds a header guard in "gcc/ethread.h", as is present in "libatomic_ops/ethread.h".
2013-07-11Fix ‘ethr_native_rwlock_destroy’ defined but not used warningRickard Green
2013-02-22Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-02-22Merge branch 'sverk/win-64-pointer-fix'Sverker Eriksson
* sverk/win-64-pointer-fix: erts: Correct term type for printf %T erts: Correct internal printf integer type for win64 erts: Correct some printf type formatting erts: Fix type bug in get_proc_affinity for windows OTP-10887 Forgot this ticket for sverk/erlang_pid-revert: OTP-10885
2013-02-21erts: Correct term type for printf %TR. Blaine Whittle
2013-02-21erts: Correct internal printf integer type for win64R. Blaine Whittle
2013-02-12erts: Use native atomics and fallback spinlock to mutex for VALGRINDSverker Eriksson
An attempt to speedup valgrind
2012-11-23Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-09-04erts: Fix gcc atomic bug in ethread.hSverker Eriksson
A faulty #if 0 caused healthy gcc builtin atomic to be ignored.
2012-02-19Misc memory barrier fixesRickard Green
- Document barrier semantics - Introduce ddrb suffix on atomic ops - Barrier macros for both non-SMP and SMP case - Make the thread progress API a bit more intuitive
2011-12-09Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2011-12-02Make whole of OTP build and release on Win64Patrik Nyblom
Removed symbolic links from repository.
2011-11-13Use critical sections as mutex implementation on WindowsRickard Green
Windows native critical sections are now used internally in the runtime system as mutex implementation. This since they perform better under extreme contention than our own implementation.
2011-06-14Improve ethread atomicsRickard Green
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.
2011-05-20Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2011-05-13Merge branch 'rickard/barriers/OTP-9281' into devRickard Green
* rickard/barriers/OTP-9281: Silence warnings Fix build with hipe on amd64 Reduce number of atomic ops Use 32-bit atomic for port snapshot Remove pointless erts_ports_alive variable Ensure quick break Ensure that all rehashing information are seen when done Ensure that stack updates are seen when stack is released Add needed barriers for write_concurrency tables Homogenize memory barriers on atomics
2011-05-11Homogenize memory barriers on atomicsRickard Green
Atomic operations with specified barriers have specified barrier semantics. Set and read operations have undefined barrier semantics. All other atomic operations implied full memory barriers, except when using the libatomic_ops library and the tilera atomics api. Some code in the runtime system assumed that all operations used (except for set, read and specified) implied full memory barriers. The use of the libatomic_ops library and the tilera atomics api have therefore been modified to behave as the other implementations. Some atomic operations with specified barrier semantics on sparc32 have also been been relaxed in this commit.
2011-05-06erts_printf %R for relative ets-terms in halfword-vmSverker Eriksson
Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_printf_term.c
2011-03-11Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2011-03-08The emulator could get into a state where it didn't check for I/O.Rickard Green
2010-12-16Use 32-bit atomic for uaflgs in thread specific eventsRickard Green
2010-12-15Use 32-bit atomics for mutex and rwmutex flagsRickard Green
2010-12-15Use 32-bit atomics for eventsRickard Green
2010-12-15Add support for 32-bit atomicsRickard Green
2010-12-14Move atomic API into own filesRickard Green
2010-12-14Add support for 64-bit atomics on WindowsRickard Green
2010-12-14Remove unused ethread time functionalityRickard Green
2010-12-11Introduce ethr_sint_t and use it for atomicsRickard Green
The atomic memory operations interface used the 'long' type and assumed that it was of the same size as 'void *'. This is true on most platforms, however, not on Windows 64.
2010-12-03Merge branch 'rickard/rwmutex-bug/OTP-8925' into devRickard Green
* rickard/rwmutex-bug/OTP-8925: Use correct argument types on rwlock_wake_set_flags()
2010-12-02Use correct argument types on rwlock_wake_set_flags()Rickard Green
2010-12-01Merge branch 'rickard/rwmutex-bug/OTP-8925' into devRickard Green
* rickard/rwmutex-bug/OTP-8925: Miscellaneous rwmutex bug fixes and improvements Don't use more reader groups than schedulers New test suite containing stress tests of the rwmutex implementation Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c
2010-12-01Miscellaneous rwmutex bug fixes and improvementsRickard Green
The ERTS internal rwlock implementation could get into an inconsistent state. This bug was very seldom triggered, but could be during heavy contention. The bug was introduced in R14B (erts-5.8.1). The bug was most likely to be triggered when using the read_concurrency option on an ETS table that was frequently accessed from multiple processes doing lots of writes and reads. That is, in a situation where you typically don't want to use the read_concurrency option in the first place.
2010-11-22Merge branch 'ta/fix-ethread-void-return' into devRickard Green
* ta/fix-ethread-void-return: ethread: do not return from void ethr_atomic_set_relb OTP-8944
2010-10-29Allow usage of libatomic_ops when other compilers than gcc are usedRickard Green
2010-10-29ethread: do not return from void ethr_atomic_set_relbTuncer Ayaz
Reported-by: Patrick Baggett <[email protected]>
2010-09-10Merge branch 'sv/ethread-atomic-mips' into devRickard Green
* sv/ethread-atomic-mips: add MIPS architecture to GCC ethread atomics support
2010-09-08Increase spincount with many schedulersRickard Green
2010-09-07add MIPS architecture to GCC ethread atomics supportSteve Vinoski
Gcc for MIPS supports immediate atomic gets and sets, and also supports a working __sync_synchronize() for gcc 4.2 and greater.
2010-08-30Implement automatic detection of CPU topology on WindowsRickard Green
The CPU topology is now automatically detected on Windows systems with less than 33 logical processors. The runtime system will now, also on Windows, by default bind schedulers to logical processors using the 'default_bind' bind type if the amount of schedulers is at least equal to the amount of logical processors configured, binding of schedulers is supported, and a CPU topology is available at startup.
2010-08-18Make it possible to reread and update detected CPU informationRickard Green
Calling erlang:system_info/1 with the new argument 'update_cpu_info' will make the runtime system reread and update the internally stored CPU information. For more information see the documentation of erlang:system_info(update_cpu_info).
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.