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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.
2010-11-18Merge branch 'pg/freebsd-cpu-affinity-and-topology' into devRickard Green
* pg/freebsd-cpu-affinity-and-topology: Add support for CPU affinity & topology detection on FreeBSD 8 OTP-8939
2010-11-18Add support for CPU affinity & topology detection on FreeBSD 8Paul Guyot
2010-10-01Teach read_topology not to crash on W2K3Patrik Nyblom
2010-09-08Fix deadlock in reader optimized rwlock implementationRickard Green
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.
2010-09-08Remove unused variablesRickard Green
2010-09-08Increase spincount with many schedulersRickard Green
2010-09-08Re-enable spin wait on ethreads rwlocksRickard Green
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.
2010-08-30Fix faulty assertionsRickard Green
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.
2010-06-01OTP-8662 Fix ethr_rwmutex_tryrlockRickard Green
ethr_rwmutex_tryrlock() acquired and refused to acquire a lock with inverted logic. The lock was however never acquired in a thread unsafe manner. (Thanks to JR Zhang for noting this issue)
2010-06-01OTP-8661 Enable writer preferred pthread read/write locks on LinuxRickard Green
Writer preferred pthread read/write locks has been enabled on Linux.
2010-06-01OTP-8659 Add ethread support for gcc atomicsRickard Green
Support for using gcc's built-in functions for atomic memory access has been added. This functionallity will be used if available and no other native atomic implementation in ERTS is available.
2010-03-31OTP-8549 Fix out of bounds write in erts_get_cpu_topology()Rickard Green
The runtime system crashed if fewer logical processors were found than reported by sysconf( SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF).
2010-01-26OTP-8343 The documentation is now possible to build in an open sourceLars G Thorsen
environment after a number of bugs are fixed and some features are added in the documentation build process. - The arity calculation is updated. - The module prefix used in the function names for bif's are removed in the generated links so the links will look like http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2 instead of http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2 - Enhanced the menu positioning in the html documentation when a new page is loaded. - A number of corrections in the generation of man pages (thanks to Sergei Golovan) - Moved some man pages to more apropriate sections, pages in section 4 moved to 5 and pages in 6 moved to 7. - The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so OTP's build process can be used for non OTP applications.
2010-01-19OTP-8373 ERTS makefiles used to detect the use of a gcc C compiler byRickard Green
checking if CC equaled gcc. That is, the makefiles failed to detect gcc C compilers with other command line names than gcc. `configure' now substitute GCC into the makefiles. If CC is a gcc C compiler, GCC will have the value yes. (Thanks to Jean-S�bastien P�dron)
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP