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authorDavid M. Lee <dlee@digium.com>2013-09-30 18:55:27 +0000
committerDavid M. Lee <dlee@digium.com>2013-09-30 18:55:27 +0000
commit2de42c2a257947d0a376d861dbd1ca76923e7930 (patch)
treea01a063af4857ba99e8fa3f7892dd41c6edf826a /include/asterisk/sem.h
parentdb7c8691a06bd896070e1a9c4f90309104509190 (diff)
Multiple revisions 399887,400138,400178,400180-400181
........ r399887 | dlee | 2013-09-26 10:41:47 -0500 (Thu, 26 Sep 2013) | 1 line Minor performance bump by not allocate manager variable struct if we don't need it ........ r400138 | dlee | 2013-09-30 10:24:00 -0500 (Mon, 30 Sep 2013) | 23 lines Stasis performance improvements This patch addresses several performance problems that were found in the initial performance testing of Asterisk 12. The Stasis dispatch object was allocated as an AO2 object, even though it has a very confined lifecycle. This was replaced with a straight ast_malloc(). The Stasis message router was spending an inordinate amount of time searching hash tables. In this case, most of our routers had 6 or fewer routes in them to begin with. This was replaced with an array that's searched linearly for the route. We more heavily rely on AO2 objects in Asterisk 12, and the memset() in ao2_ref() actually became noticeable on the profile. This was #ifdef'ed to only run when AO2_DEBUG was enabled. After being misled by an erroneous comment in taskprocessor.c during profiling, the wrong comment was removed. Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2873/ ........ r400178 | dlee | 2013-09-30 13:26:27 -0500 (Mon, 30 Sep 2013) | 24 lines Taskprocessor optimization; switch Stasis to use taskprocessors This patch optimizes taskprocessor to use a semaphore for signaling, which the OS can do a better job at managing contention and waiting that we can with a mutex and condition. The taskprocessor execution was also slightly optimized to reduce the number of locks taken. The only observable difference in the taskprocessor implementation is that when the final reference to the taskprocessor goes away, it will execute all tasks to completion instead of discarding the unexecuted tasks. For systems where unnamed semaphores are not supported, a really simple semaphore implementation is provided. (Which gives identical performance as the original taskprocessor implementation). The way we ended up implementing Stasis caused the threadpool to be a burden instead of a boost to performance. This was switched to just use taskprocessors directly for subscriptions. Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2881/ ........ r400180 | dlee | 2013-09-30 13:39:34 -0500 (Mon, 30 Sep 2013) | 28 lines Optimize how Stasis forwards are dispatched This patch optimizes how forwards are dispatched in Stasis. Originally, forwards were dispatched as subscriptions that are invoked on the publishing thread. This did not account for the vast number of forwards we would end up having in the system, and the amount of work it would take to walk though the forward subscriptions. This patch modifies Stasis so that rather than walking the tree of forwards on every dispatch, when forwards and subscriptions are changed, the subscriber list for every topic in the tree is changed. This has a couple of benefits. First, this reduces the workload of dispatching messages. It also reduces contention when dispatching to different topics that happen to forward to the same aggregation topic (as happens with all of the channel, bridge and endpoint topics). Since forwards are no longer subscriptions, the bulk of this patch is simply changing stasis_subscription objects to stasis_forward objects (which, admittedly, I should have done in the first place.) Since this required me to yet again put in a growing array, I finally abstracted that out into a set of ast_vector macros in asterisk/vector.h. Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2883/ ........ r400181 | dlee | 2013-09-30 13:48:57 -0500 (Mon, 30 Sep 2013) | 28 lines Remove dispatch object allocation from Stasis publishing While looking for areas for performance improvement, I realized that an unused feature in Stasis was negatively impacting performance. When a message is sent to a subscriber, a dispatch object is allocated for the dispatch, containing the topic the message was published to, the subscriber the message is being sent to, and the message itself. The topic is actually unused by any subscriber in Asterisk today. And the subscriber is associated with the taskprocessor the message is being dispatched to. First, this patch removes the unused topic parameter from Stasis subscription callbacks. Second, this patch introduces the concept of taskprocessor local data, data that may be set on a taskprocessor and provided along with the data pointer when a task is pushed using the ast_taskprocessor_push_local() call. This allows the task to have both data specific to that taskprocessor, in addition to data specific to that invocation. With those two changes, the dispatch object can be removed completely, and the message is simply refcounted and sent directly to the taskprocessor. Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2884/ ........ Merged revisions 399887,400138,400178,400180-400181 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/12 git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@400186 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
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+/*
+ * Asterisk -- An open source telephony toolkit.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2013, Digium, Inc.
+ *
+ * David M. Lee, II <dlee@digium.com>
+ *
+ * See http://www.asterisk.org for more information about
+ * the Asterisk project. Please do not directly contact
+ * any of the maintainers of this project for assistance;
+ * the project provides a web site, mailing lists and IRC
+ * channels for your use.
+ *
+ * This program is free software, distributed under the terms of
+ * the GNU General Public License Version 2. See the LICENSE file
+ * at the top of the source tree.
+ */
+
+#ifndef ASTERISK_SEMAPHORE_H
+#define ASTERISK_SEMAPHORE_H
+
+/*!
+ * \file Asterisk semaphore API
+ *
+ * This API is a thin wrapper around the POSIX semaphore API (when available),
+ * so see the POSIX documentation for further details.
+ */
+
+#ifdef HAS_WORKING_SEMAPHORE
+/* Working semaphore implementation detected */
+
+#include <semaphore.h>
+
+struct ast_sem {
+ sem_t real_sem;
+};
+
+#define AST_SEM_VALUE_MAX SEM_VALUE_MAX
+
+/* These are thin wrappers; might as well inline them */
+
+static force_inline int ast_sem_init(struct ast_sem *sem, int pshared, unsigned int value)
+{
+ return sem_init(&sem->real_sem, pshared, value);
+}
+
+static force_inline int ast_sem_destroy(struct ast_sem *sem)
+{
+ return sem_destroy(&sem->real_sem);
+}
+
+static force_inline int ast_sem_post(struct ast_sem *sem)
+{
+ return sem_post(&sem->real_sem);
+}
+
+static force_inline int ast_sem_wait(struct ast_sem *sem)
+{
+ return sem_wait(&sem->real_sem);
+}
+
+static force_inline int ast_sem_getvalue(struct ast_sem *sem, int *sval)
+{
+ return sem_getvalue(&sem->real_sem, sval);
+}
+
+#else
+/* Unnamed semaphores don't work. Rolling our own, I guess... */
+
+#include "asterisk/lock.h"
+
+#include <limits.h>
+
+struct ast_sem {
+ /*! Current count of this semaphore */
+ int count;
+ /*! Number of threads currently waiting for this semaphore */
+ int waiters;
+ /*! Mutual exclusion */
+ ast_mutex_t mutex;
+ /*! Condition for singalling waiters */
+ ast_cond_t cond;
+};
+
+#define AST_SEM_VALUE_MAX INT_MAX
+
+/*!
+ * \brief Initialize a semaphore.
+ *
+ * \param sem Semaphore to initialize.
+ * \param pshared Pass true (nonzero) to share this thread between processes.
+ * Not be supported on all platforms, so be wary!
+ * But leave the parameter, to be compatible with the POSIX ABI
+ * in case we need to add support in the future.
+ * \param value Initial value of the semaphore.
+ *
+ * \return 0 on success.
+ * \return -1 on error, errno set to indicate error.
+ */
+int ast_sem_init(struct ast_sem *sem, int pshared, unsigned int value);
+
+/*!
+ * \brief Destroy a semaphore.
+ *
+ * Destroying a semaphore that other threads are currently blocked on produces
+ * undefined behavior.
+ *
+ * \param sem Semaphore to destroy.
+ *
+ * \return 0 on success.
+ * \return -1 on error, errno set to indicate error.
+ */
+int ast_sem_destroy(struct ast_sem *sem);
+
+/*!
+ * \brief Increments the semaphore, unblocking a waiter if necessary.
+ *
+ * \param sem Semaphore to increment.
+ *
+ * \return 0 on success.
+ * \return -1 on error, errno set to indicate error.
+ */
+int ast_sem_post(struct ast_sem *sem);
+
+/*!
+ * \brief Decrements the semaphore.
+ *
+ * If the semaphore's current value is zero, this function blocks until another
+ * thread posts (ast_sem_post()) to the semaphore (or is interrupted by a signal
+ * handler, which sets errno to EINTR).
+ *
+ * \param sem Semaphore to decrement.
+ *
+ * \return 0 on success.
+ * \return -1 on error, errno set to indicate error.
+ */
+int ast_sem_wait(struct ast_sem *sem);
+
+/*!
+ * \brief Gets the current value of the semaphore.
+ *
+ * If threads are blocked on this semaphore, POSIX allows the return value to be
+ * either 0 or a negative number whose absolute value is the number of threads
+ * blocked. Don't assume that it will give you one or the other; Asterisk has
+ * been ported to just about everything.
+ *
+ * \param sem Semaphore to query.
+ * \param[out] sval Output value.
+ *
+ * \return 0 on success.
+ * \return -1 on error, errno set to indicate error.
+ */
+int ast_sem_getvalue(struct ast_sem *sem, int *sval);
+
+#endif
+
+#endif /* ASTERISK_SEMAPHORE_H */