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authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2011-09-26 00:25:13 -0400
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2011-09-26 00:25:13 -0400
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redo cond vars again, use sequence numbers
testing revealed that the old implementation, while correct, was
giving way too many spurious wakeups due to races changing the value
of the condition futex. in a test program with 5 threads receiving
broadcast signals, the number of returns from pthread_cond_wait was
roughly 3 times what it should have been (2 spurious wakeups for every
legitimate wakeup). moreover, the magnitude of this effect seems to
grow with the number of threads.

the old implementation may also have had some nasty race conditions
with reuse of the cond var with a new mutex.

the new implementation is based on incrementing a sequence number with
each signal event. this sequence number has nothing to do with the
number of threads intended to be woken; it's only used to provide a
value for the futex wait to avoid deadlock. in theory there is a
danger of race conditions due to the value wrapping around after 2^32
signals. it would be nice to eliminate that, if there's a way.

testing showed no spurious wakeups (though they are of course
possible) with the new implementation, as well as slightly improved
performance.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/internal')
-rw-r--r--src/internal/pthread_impl.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/internal/pthread_impl.h b/src/internal/pthread_impl.h
index 4c743d2e..63639ec2 100644
--- a/src/internal/pthread_impl.h
+++ b/src/internal/pthread_impl.h
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ struct __timer {
 #define _m_next __u.__p[4]
 #define _m_count __u.__i[5]
 #define _c_mutex __u.__p[0]
-#define _c_block __u.__i[2]
+#define _c_seq __u.__i[2]
 #define _c_waiters __u.__i[3]
 #define _c_clock __u.__i[4]
-#define _c_bcast __u.__i[5]
-#define _c_leavers __u.__i[6]
+#define _c_lock __u.__i[5]
+#define _c_lockwait __u.__i[6]
 #define _rw_lock __u.__i[0]
 #define _rw_waiters __u.__i[1]
 #define _b_inst __u.__p[0]