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2017-03-14cpus: define QEMUTimerListNotifyCB for QEMU system emulationPaolo Bonzini1-1/+1
There is no change for now, because the callback just invokes qemu_notify_event. Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-02-27tests-aio-multithread: use atomic_read properlyPaolo Bonzini1-2/+2
nodes[id].next is written by other threads. If atomic_read is not used (matching atomic_set in mcs_mutex_lock!) the compiler can optimize the whole "if" away! Reported-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Tested-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Message-id: 20170227111726.9237-1-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2017-02-21test-aio-multithread: add performance comparison with thread-based mutexesPaolo Bonzini1-0/+164
Add two implementations of the same benchmark as the previous patch, but using pthreads. One uses a normal QemuMutex, the other is Linux only and implements a fair mutex based on MCS locks and futexes. This shows that the slower performance of the 5-thread case is due to the fairness of CoMutex, rather than to coroutines. If fairness does not matter, as is the case with two threads, CoMutex can actually be faster than pthreads. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213181244.16297-4-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-02-21coroutine-lock: make CoMutex thread-safePaolo Bonzini1-0/+86
This uses the lock-free mutex described in the paper '"Blocking without Locking", or LFTHREADS: A lock-free thread library' by Gidenstam and Papatriantafilou. The same technique is used in OSv, and in fact the code is essentially a conversion to C of OSv's code. [Added missing coroutine_fn in tests/test-aio-multithread.c. --Stefan] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213181244.16297-2-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-02-21aio: introduce aio_co_schedule and aio_co_wakePaolo Bonzini1-0/+213
aio_co_wake provides the infrastructure to start a coroutine on a "home" AioContext. It will be used by CoMutex and CoQueue, so that coroutines don't jump from one context to another when they go to sleep on a mutex or waitqueue. However, it can also be used as a more efficient alternative to one-shot bottom halves, and saves the effort of tracking which AioContext a coroutine is running on. aio_co_schedule is the part of aio_co_wake that starts a coroutine on a remove AioContext, but it is also useful to implement e.g. bdrv_set_aio_context callbacks. The implementation of aio_co_schedule is based on a lock-free multiple-producer, single-consumer queue. The multiple producers use cmpxchg to add to a LIFO stack. The consumer (a per-AioContext bottom half) grabs all items added so far, inverts the list to make it FIFO, and goes through it one item at a time until it's empty. The data structure was inspired by OSv, which uses it in the very code we'll "port" to QEMU for the thread-safe CoMutex. Most of the new code is really tests. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-3-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>