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sanitize number of spins in userspace before futex wait 

the previous spin limit of 10000 was utterly unreasonable.
empirically, it could consume up to 200000 cycles, whereas a failed
futex wait (EAGAIN) typically takes 1000 cycles or less, and even a
true wait/wake round seems much less expensive.

the new counts (100 for general wait, 200 in barrier) were simply
chosen to be in the range of what's reasonable without having adverse
effects on casual micro-benchmark tests I have been running. they may
still be too high, from a standpoint of not wasting cpu cycles, but at
least they're a lot better than before. rigorous testing across
different archs and cpu models should be performed at some point to
determine whether further adjustments should be made.
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Rich Felker 2014-08-25 15:58:19 -04:00
parent ea818ea834
commit b8a9c90e4f
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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src/thread/__wait.c
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@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
void __wait(volatile int *addr, volatile int *waiters, int val, int priv)
{
int spins=10000;
int spins=100;
if (priv) priv = 128;
while (spins--) {
if (*addr==val) a_spin();

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src/thread/pthread_barrier_wait.c
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@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int pthread_barrier_wait(pthread_barrier_t *b)
/* First thread to enter the barrier becomes the "instance owner" */
if (!inst) {
struct instance new_inst = { 0 };
int spins = 10000;
int spins = 200;
b->_b_inst = inst = &new_inst;
a_store(&b->_b_lock, 0);
if (b->_b_waiters) __wake(&b->_b_lock, 1, 1);