Merge branch 'threadpool-shared-thread-prios' into 'main'

GThreadPool: Always use the thread-spawning thread for the global shared thread pool

Closes #2769

See merge request GNOME/glib!3208
This commit is contained in:
Michael Catanzaro 2023-01-20 19:00:49 +00:00
commit ce876ab28b
7 changed files with 40 additions and 211 deletions

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@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ g_thread_create_full (GThreadFunc func,
GThread *thread;
thread = g_thread_new_internal (NULL, g_deprecated_thread_proxy,
func, data, stack_size, NULL, error);
func, data, stack_size, error);
if (thread && !joinable)
{

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@ -1157,9 +1157,6 @@ typedef struct
GMutex lock;
void *(*proxy) (void *);
/* Must be statically allocated and valid forever */
const GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings;
} GThreadPosix;
void
@ -1175,103 +1172,9 @@ g_system_thread_free (GRealThread *thread)
g_slice_free (GThreadPosix, pt);
}
gboolean
g_system_thread_get_scheduler_settings (GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings)
{
/* FIXME: Implement the same for macOS and the BSDs so it doesn't go through
* the fallback code using an additional thread. */
#if defined(HAVE_SYS_SCHED_GETATTR)
pid_t tid;
int res;
/* FIXME: The struct definition does not seem to be possible to pull in
* via any of the normal system headers and it's only declared in the
* kernel headers. That's why we hardcode 56 here right now. */
guint size = 56; /* Size as of Linux 5.3.9 */
guint flags = 0;
tid = (pid_t) syscall (SYS_gettid);
scheduler_settings->attr = g_malloc0 (size);
do
{
int errsv;
res = syscall (SYS_sched_getattr, tid, scheduler_settings->attr, size, flags);
errsv = errno;
if (res == -1)
{
if (errsv == EAGAIN)
{
continue;
}
else if (errsv == E2BIG)
{
g_assert (size < G_MAXINT);
size *= 2;
scheduler_settings->attr = g_realloc (scheduler_settings->attr, size);
/* Needs to be zero-initialized */
memset (scheduler_settings->attr, 0, size);
}
else
{
g_debug ("Failed to get thread scheduler attributes: %s", g_strerror (errsv));
g_free (scheduler_settings->attr);
return FALSE;
}
}
}
while (res == -1);
/* Try setting them on the current thread to see if any system policies are
* in place that would disallow doing so */
res = syscall (SYS_sched_setattr, tid, scheduler_settings->attr, flags);
if (res == -1)
{
int errsv = errno;
g_debug ("Failed to set thread scheduler attributes: %s", g_strerror (errsv));
g_free (scheduler_settings->attr);
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
#else
return FALSE;
#endif
}
#if defined(HAVE_SYS_SCHED_GETATTR)
static void *
linux_pthread_proxy (void *data)
{
GThreadPosix *thread = data;
/* Set scheduler settings first if requested */
if (thread->scheduler_settings)
{
pid_t tid = 0;
guint flags = 0;
int res;
int errsv;
tid = (pid_t) syscall (SYS_gettid);
res = syscall (SYS_sched_setattr, tid, thread->scheduler_settings->attr, flags);
errsv = errno;
if (res == -1)
g_error ("Failed to set scheduler settings: %s", g_strerror (errsv));
}
return thread->proxy (data);
}
#endif
GRealThread *
g_system_thread_new (GThreadFunc proxy,
gulong stack_size,
const GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings,
const char *name,
GThreadFunc func,
gpointer data,
@ -1290,7 +1193,6 @@ g_system_thread_new (GThreadFunc proxy,
base_thread->thread.func = func;
base_thread->thread.data = data;
base_thread->name = g_strdup (name);
thread->scheduler_settings = scheduler_settings;
thread->proxy = proxy;
posix_check_cmd (pthread_attr_init (&attr));
@ -1310,18 +1212,13 @@ g_system_thread_new (GThreadFunc proxy,
#endif /* HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE */
#ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETINHERITSCHED
if (!scheduler_settings)
{
/* While this is the default, better be explicit about it */
pthread_attr_setinheritsched (&attr, PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED);
}
#endif /* HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETINHERITSCHED */
#if defined(HAVE_SYS_SCHED_GETATTR)
ret = pthread_create (&thread->system_thread, &attr, linux_pthread_proxy, thread);
#else
ret = pthread_create (&thread->system_thread, &attr, (void* (*)(void*))proxy, thread);
#endif
posix_check_cmd (pthread_attr_destroy (&attr));

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@ -463,19 +463,9 @@ g_thread_win32_proxy (gpointer data)
return 0;
}
gboolean
g_system_thread_get_scheduler_settings (GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings)
{
HANDLE current_thread = GetCurrentThread ();
scheduler_settings->thread_prio = GetThreadPriority (current_thread);
return TRUE;
}
GRealThread *
g_system_thread_new (GThreadFunc proxy,
gulong stack_size,
const GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings,
const char *name,
GThreadFunc func,
gpointer data,
@ -515,12 +505,6 @@ g_system_thread_new (GThreadFunc proxy,
* On Windows, by default all new threads are created with NORMAL thread
* priority.
*/
if (scheduler_settings)
{
thread_prio = scheduler_settings->thread_prio;
}
else
{
HANDLE current_thread = GetCurrentThread ();
thread_prio = GetThreadPriority (current_thread);

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@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ g_thread_new (const gchar *name,
GError *error = NULL;
GThread *thread;
thread = g_thread_new_internal (name, g_thread_proxy, func, data, 0, NULL, &error);
thread = g_thread_new_internal (name, g_thread_proxy, func, data, 0, &error);
if G_UNLIKELY (thread == NULL)
g_error ("creating thread '%s': %s", name ? name : "", error->message);
@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ g_thread_try_new (const gchar *name,
gpointer data,
GError **error)
{
return g_thread_new_internal (name, g_thread_proxy, func, data, 0, NULL, error);
return g_thread_new_internal (name, g_thread_proxy, func, data, 0, error);
}
GThread *
@ -925,7 +925,6 @@ g_thread_new_internal (const gchar *name,
GThreadFunc func,
gpointer data,
gsize stack_size,
const GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings,
GError **error)
{
g_return_val_if_fail (func != NULL, NULL);
@ -933,16 +932,7 @@ g_thread_new_internal (const gchar *name,
g_atomic_int_inc (&g_thread_n_created_counter);
g_trace_mark (G_TRACE_CURRENT_TIME, 0, "GLib", "GThread created", "%s", name ? name : "(unnamed)");
return (GThread *) g_system_thread_new (proxy, stack_size, scheduler_settings,
name, func, data, error);
}
gboolean
g_thread_get_scheduler_settings (GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings)
{
g_return_val_if_fail (scheduler_settings != NULL, FALSE);
return g_system_thread_get_scheduler_settings (scheduler_settings);
return (GThread *) g_system_thread_new (proxy, stack_size, name, func, data, error);
}
/**

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@ -117,9 +117,6 @@ static gint max_unused_threads = 2;
static gint kill_unused_threads = 0;
static guint max_idle_time = 15 * 1000;
static GThreadSchedulerSettings shared_thread_scheduler_settings;
static gboolean have_shared_thread_scheduler_settings = FALSE;
typedef struct
{
/* Either thread or error are set in the end. Both transfer-full. */
@ -471,16 +468,9 @@ g_thread_pool_start_thread (GRealThreadPool *pool,
{
/* For non-exclusive thread-pools this can be called at any time
* when a new thread is needed. We make sure to create a new thread
* here with the correct scheduler settings: either by directly
* providing them if supported by the GThread implementation or by
* going via our helper thread.
* here with the correct scheduler settings by going via our helper
* thread.
*/
if (have_shared_thread_scheduler_settings)
{
thread = g_thread_new_internal (name, g_thread_proxy, g_thread_pool_thread_proxy, pool, 0, &shared_thread_scheduler_settings, error);
}
else
{
SpawnThreadData spawn_thread_data = { (GThreadPool *) pool, NULL, NULL };
g_async_queue_lock (spawn_thread_queue);
@ -495,7 +485,6 @@ g_thread_pool_start_thread (GRealThreadPool *pool,
g_propagate_error (error, g_steal_pointer (&spawn_thread_data.error));
g_async_queue_unlock (spawn_thread_queue);
}
}
if (thread == NULL)
return FALSE;
@ -547,6 +536,11 @@ g_thread_pool_start_thread (GRealThreadPool *pool,
* since their threads are never considered idle and returned to the
* global pool.
*
* Note that the threads used by exclusive threadpools will all inherit the
* scheduler settings of the current thread while the threads used by
* non-exclusive threadpools will inherit the scheduler settings from the
* first thread that created such a threadpool.
*
* @error can be %NULL to ignore errors, or non-%NULL to report
* errors. An error can only occur when @exclusive is set to %TRUE
* and not all @max_threads threads could be created.
@ -620,35 +614,24 @@ g_thread_pool_new_full (GFunc func,
if (!unused_thread_queue)
unused_thread_queue = g_async_queue_new ();
/* For the very first non-exclusive thread-pool we remember the thread
* scheduler settings of the thread creating the pool, if supported by
* the GThread implementation. This is then used for making sure that
* all threads created on the non-exclusive thread-pool have the same
* scheduler settings, and more importantly don't just inherit them
* from the thread that just happened to push a new task and caused
* a new thread to be created.
/*
* Spawn a helper thread that is only responsible for spawning new threads
* with the scheduler settings of the current thread.
*
* This is then used for making sure that all threads created on the
* non-exclusive thread-pool have the same scheduler settings, and more
* importantly don't just inherit them from the thread that just happened to
* push a new task and caused a new thread to be created.
*
* Not doing so could cause real-time priority threads or otherwise
* threads with problematic scheduler settings to be part of the
* non-exclusive thread-pools.
*
* If this is not supported by the GThread implementation then we here
* start a thread that will inherit the scheduler settings from this
* very thread and whose only purpose is to spawn new threads with the
* same settings for use by the non-exclusive thread-pools.
*
*
* For non-exclusive thread-pools this is not required as all threads
* are created immediately below and are running forever, so they will
* For exclusive thread-pools this is not required as all threads are
* created immediately below and are running forever, so they will
* automatically inherit the scheduler settings from this very thread.
*/
if (!exclusive && !have_shared_thread_scheduler_settings && !spawn_thread_queue)
{
if (g_thread_get_scheduler_settings (&shared_thread_scheduler_settings))
{
have_shared_thread_scheduler_settings = TRUE;
}
else
if (!exclusive && !spawn_thread_queue)
{
GThread *pool_spawner = NULL;
@ -657,7 +640,6 @@ g_thread_pool_new_full (GFunc func,
pool_spawner = g_thread_new ("pool-spawner", g_thread_pool_spawn_thread, NULL);
g_ignore_leak (pool_spawner);
}
}
G_UNLOCK (init);
if (retval->pool.exclusive)

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@ -90,25 +90,10 @@ struct _GRealThread
#endif
/* Platform-specific scheduler settings for a thread */
typedef struct
{
#if defined(HAVE_SYS_SCHED_GETATTR)
/* This is for modern Linux */
struct sched_attr *attr;
#elif defined(G_OS_WIN32)
gint thread_prio;
#else
/* TODO: Add support for macOS and the BSDs */
void *dummy;
#endif
} GThreadSchedulerSettings;
void g_system_thread_wait (GRealThread *thread);
GRealThread *g_system_thread_new (GThreadFunc proxy,
gulong stack_size,
const GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings,
const char *name,
GThreadFunc func,
gpointer data,
@ -118,19 +103,14 @@ void g_system_thread_free (GRealThread *thread);
void g_system_thread_exit (void);
void g_system_thread_set_name (const gchar *name);
gboolean g_system_thread_get_scheduler_settings (GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings);
/* gthread.c */
GThread *g_thread_new_internal (const gchar *name,
GThreadFunc proxy,
GThreadFunc func,
gpointer data,
gsize stack_size,
const GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings,
GError **error);
gboolean g_thread_get_scheduler_settings (GThreadSchedulerSettings *scheduler_settings);
gpointer g_thread_proxy (gpointer thread);
guint g_thread_n_created (void);

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@ -1956,10 +1956,6 @@ else
glib_conf.set('HAVE_PTHREAD_GETNAME_NP', 1)
endif
if cc.has_header_symbol('sys/syscall.h', 'SYS_sched_getattr')
glib_conf.set('HAVE_SYS_SCHED_GETATTR', 1)
endif
# Assume that pthread_setname_np is available in some form; same as configure
if cc.links(pthread_prefix + '''
int main() {