[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] 2881: Performance: Taskprocessor optimization; switch Stasis to use taskprocessors

[Matt Jordan]

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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Matt Jordan


On Sept. 30, 2013, 4:10 p.m., David Lee wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 30, 2013, 4:10 p.m.)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
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> Repository: Asterisk
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> Description
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> 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.
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> The taskprocessor execution was also slightly optimized to reduce the
> number of locks taken.
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> 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.
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> For systems where unnamed semaphores are not supported, a really
> simple semaphore implementation is provided. (Which gives identical
> performance as the original taskprocessor implementation).
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> 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.
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> Diffs
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>   /team/dlee/performance/configs/stasis.conf.sample 399869 
>   /team/dlee/performance/configure UNKNOWN 
>   /team/dlee/performance/configure.ac 399869 
>   /team/dlee/performance/include/asterisk/autoconfig.h.in 399869 
>   /team/dlee/performance/include/asterisk/sem.h PRE-CREATION 
>   /team/dlee/performance/include/asterisk/stasis.h 399869 
>   /team/dlee/performance/include/asterisk/taskprocessor.h 399869 
>   /team/dlee/performance/main/sem.c PRE-CREATION 
>   /team/dlee/performance/main/stasis.c 399869 
>   /team/dlee/performance/main/stasis_config.c 399869 
>   /team/dlee/performance/main/taskprocessor.c 399869 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2881/diff/
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> Testing
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> Unit tests pass.
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> Same performance test as from https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2873/
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> Thanks,
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> David Lee
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