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Communication between Erlang processes has conceptually always been
performed through asynchronous signaling. The runtime system
implementation has however previously preformed most operation
synchronously. In a system with only one true thread of execution, this
is not problematic (often the opposite). In a system with multiple threads
of execution (as current runtime system implementation with SMP support)
it becomes problematic. This since it often involves locking of structures
when updating them which in turn cause resource contention. Utilizing
true asynchronous communication often avoids these resource contention
issues.
The case that triggered this change was contention on the link lock due
to frequent updates of the monitor trees during communication with a
frequently used server. The signal order delivery guarantees of the
language makes it hard to change the implementation of only some signals
to use true asynchronous signaling. Therefore the implementations
of (almost) all signals have been changed.
Currently the following signals have been implemented as true
asynchronous signals:
- Message signals
- Exit signals
- Monitor signals
- Demonitor signals
- Monitor triggered signals (DOWN, CHANGE, etc)
- Link signals
- Unlink signals
- Group leader signals
All of the above already defined as asynchronous signals in the
language. The implementation of messages signals was quite
asynchronous to begin with, but had quite strict delivery constraints
due to the ordering guarantees of signals between a pair of processes.
The previously used message queue partitioned into two halves has been
replaced by a more general signal queue partitioned into three parts
that service all kinds of signals. More details regarding the signal
queue can be found in comments in the erl_proc_sig_queue.h file.
The monitor and link implementations have also been completely replaced
in order to fit the new asynchronous signaling implementation as good
as possible. More details regarding the new monitor and link
implementations can be found in the erl_monitor_link.h file.
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* maint:
Updated OTP version
Prepare release
Conflicts:
OTP_VERSION
lib/typer/doc/src/notes.xml
lib/typer/vsn.mk
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* maint:
Fix xml warnings in old release notes
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Fix some older errors as well.
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This reverts commit e020f75c10410a6943cd055bfa072a2641eab7da.
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Fix mistakes found by 'xmllint'.
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This reverts commit bd64ad8e15d66e48b36dbe3584315dd5cfc8b59a.
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The R16B02 release
Conflicts:
lib/sasl/vsn.mk
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* maint:
Change encoding of troublesome notes.xml files to utf-8
Convert some notes.xml files from latin-1 to utf-8
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In the master branch, the encoding for most xml files have been
changed from latin-1 to utf-8. The problem is, that the corresponding
files in the maint branch still are encoded in latin-1, and that
a merge from maint to master may bring in characters encoded in latin-1
into a notes.xml file declared to be in utf-8.
To fix the problem once and for all (for the files involved), we'll
need to re-encode the files files utf-8 in maint, and then merge to
master.
Noticed-by: Magnus Henoch
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The R16B01 release
Conflicts:
lib/sasl/vsn.mk
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Using the low-level BEAM instructions, we can loop over each message in
the process queue and removes the first message that matches, without
receiving them all to later send them back to itself.
The function prim_eval:'receive'/2 is equivalent to the
following pseudo-code:
'receive'(F, T) ->
RESET MESSAGE QUEUE POINTER,
LOOP:
case PEEK CURRENT MESSAGE WITH TIMEOUT T of
{ok,Msg} ->
case F(Msg) of
nomatch ->
DECREMENT TIMEOUT T,
ADVANCE MESSAGE QUEUE POINTER,
GOTO LOOP;
Result ->
RESET MESSAGE QUEUE POINTER,
Result
end;
timeout ->
RESET MESSAGE QUEUE POINTER,
timeout
end.
To not break Dialyzer and other tools, we use a stub Erlang module which
abstract code is forcefully inserted into prim_inet.erl afterwards
compilation.
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Examples overflowing the width of PDF pages have been fixed.
The remaining warnings are due to table cells, and require more
work.
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In the first traversal of library directories, reltool used only the
directory names in order to figure out application names. This would
succeed if the directory name was AppName only or AppName-AppVsn and
AppVsn consisted of integers separated by dots only. If the AppVsn has
any other format, then reltool would not find the correct application
name.
With this commit, reltool will first look for a .app file and use the
.app file name as the application name. This will allow different
formats of the version identifier in the directory name. Note that
reltool can still not sort (and select the latest) amongst version
identifiers of other format than integers separated by dots.
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According to documentation it should be allowed to set
incl_cond=include|exclude|derived, but if set to derived on module
level, reltool_server would crash. This has been corrected.
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* ta/docsmaint:
Fix various doc typos for R15B02
Fix various code typos for R15B02
OTP-10245
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OTP-10106
OTP-10107
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As a way of specifying one specific version of an application, the
following configuration parameter is added on application level:
{lib_dir,Dir}, Dir = string()
This can be useful if the parent directory of the application
directory is not suitable to use as a lib dir on system level.
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OTP-9792
Also correct documentation of reltool:install/2: first argument is
RelName, not Server.
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