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authorMartin Sustrik <sustrik@fastmq.commkdir>2009-11-25 08:55:03 +0100
committerMartin Sustrik <sustrik@fastmq.commkdir>2009-11-25 08:55:03 +0100
commit92aa9e94e21b652839faa3dda27c67571bad315d (patch)
treebfe7f7faf7761689095681fe3cbe469de2ca1108 /src
parentc98fd6bc3f2a49d7cb0b820a07354168c98f60b7 (diff)
experimental code to use futexes instead of mutexes added to simple_semapthore_t
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/simple_semaphore.hpp60
1 files changed, 57 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/simple_semaphore.hpp b/src/simple_semaphore.hpp
index 209ccb4..3342281 100644
--- a/src/simple_semaphore.hpp
+++ b/src/simple_semaphore.hpp
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@
#include "platform.hpp"
#include "err.hpp"
-#if defined ZMQ_HAVE_LINUX || defined ZMQ_HAVE_OSX || defined ZMQ_HAVE_OPENVMS
+#if 0 //defined ZMQ_HAVE_LINUX
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <linux/futex.h>
+#elif defined ZMQ_HAVE_LINUX ||defined ZMQ_HAVE_OSX || defined ZMQ_HAVE_OPENVMS
#include <pthread.h>
#elif defined ZMQ_HAVE_WINDOWS
#include "windows.hpp"
@@ -33,13 +37,63 @@
namespace zmq
{
-
// Simple semaphore. Only single thread may be waiting at any given time.
// Also, the semaphore may not be posted before the previous post
// was matched by corresponding wait and the waiting thread was
// released.
-#if defined ZMQ_HAVE_LINUX || defined ZMQ_HAVE_OSX || defined ZMQ_HAVE_OPENVMS
+#if 0 //defined ZMQ_HAVE_LINUX
+
+ // In theory, using private futexes should be more efficient on Linux
+ // platform than using mutexes. However, in uncontended cases of TCP
+ // transport on loopback interface we haven't seen any latency improvement.
+ // The code is commented out waiting for more thorough testing.
+
+ class simple_semaphore_t
+ {
+ public:
+
+ // Initialise the semaphore.
+ inline simple_semaphore_t () :
+ dummy (0)
+ {
+ }
+
+ // Destroy the semaphore.
+ inline ~simple_semaphore_t ()
+ {
+ }
+
+ // Wait for the semaphore.
+ inline void wait ()
+ {
+ int rc = syscall (SYS_futex, &dummy, (int) FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE,
+ (int) 0, NULL, NULL, (int) 0);
+ zmq_assert (rc == 0);
+ }
+
+ // Post the semaphore.
+ inline void post ()
+ {
+ while (true) {
+ int rc = syscall (SYS_futex, &dummy, (int) FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE,
+ (int) 1, NULL, NULL, (int) 0);
+ zmq_assert (rc != -1 && rc <= 1);
+ if (rc == 1)
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ private:
+
+ int dummy;
+
+ // Disable copying of the object.
+ simple_semaphore_t (const simple_semaphore_t&);
+ void operator = (const simple_semaphore_t&);
+ };
+
+#elif defined ZMQ_HAVE_LINUX || defined ZMQ_HAVE_OSX || defined ZMQ_HAVE_OPENVMS
// On platforms that allow for double locking of a mutex from the same
// thread, simple semaphore is implemented using mutex, as it is more