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This reverts commit 624751813b30a367c8255e86f26f7342aeb33cbc.
Overzealous removal of vxworks includes
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On architectures where cpu topology was unavailable,
warnings erupted due to unused static functions.
Those warnings are now silenced.
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If the number of processors actually found while reading sysfs
is lower than the configured value, we realloc() the cpuinfo array
to the smaller size, but we then iterate it using the original
configured size, thus corrupting memory beyond the allocated
block.
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Fallback on using /sys/devices/system/cpu to get cpu topology,
as is already done when node directory doesn't exist.
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* hw/detect-cpus-on-irix:
Detect the available CPUs on IRIX
OTP-9531
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* pg/fix-freebsd-dualcore-detection:
Fix bug in FreeBSD topology detection code
OTP-9453
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Add support for querying the number of configured and online processors
on SGI systems running IRIX.
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* pg/freebsd-cpu-affinity-and-topology:
Add support for CPU affinity & topology detection on FreeBSD 8
OTP-8939
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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.
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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).
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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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The runtime system crashed if fewer logical processors were found than
reported by sysconf( SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF).
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