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The OSE port is no longer supported and this commit removed it
and any changes related to it. The things that were general
improvements have been left in the code.
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Some win32 specific code does not compile with gcc (mingw-w64) since
'__forceinline' is not supported by gcc. This can be avoided by
defining a new macro ETHR_FORCE_INLINE similar to ETHR_INLINE.
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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.
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* rickard/bad-rwmtx-assert:
Fix bad assertion in rwmtx implementation
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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A bug causing a deadlock in the reader optimized rwlock
implementation has been fixed. This bug appeared in
commit 59ee2a593090e7d53c97ceba63cbd300d1b9657e, i.e.,
it has not been seen in any released versions.
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Spin wait on most ethread rwlocks used by the runtime system was
unintentionally disabled during development. Spin wait has now been enabled
again. This bug appeared in commit 59ee2a593090e7d53c97ceba63cbd300d1b9657e,
i.e., it has not been seen in any released versions.
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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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