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Add a basic atomic ops API abstracting away platform/architecture details.

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Several upcoming performance/scalability improvements require atomic
operations. This new API avoids the need to splatter compiler and
architecture dependent code over all the locations employing atomic
ops.

For several of the potential usages it'd be problematic to maintain
both, a atomics using implementation and one using spinlocks or
similar. In all likelihood one of the implementations would not get
tested regularly under concurrency. To avoid that scenario the new API
provides a automatic fallback of atomic operations to spinlocks. All
properties of atomic operations are maintained. This fallback -
obviously - isn't as fast as just using atomic ops, but it's not bad
either. For one of the future users the atomics ontop spinlocks
implementation was actually slightly faster than the old purely
spinlock using implementation. That's important because it reduces the
fear of regressing older platforms when improving the scalability for
new ones.

The API, loosely modeled after the C11 atomics support, currently
provides 'atomic flags' and 32 bit unsigned integers. If the platform
efficiently supports atomic 64 bit unsigned integers those are also
provided.

To implement atomics support for a platform/architecture/compiler for
a type of atomics 32bit compare and exchange needs to be
implemented. If available and more efficient native support for flags,
32 bit atomic addition, and corresponding 64 bit operations may also
be provided. Additional useful atomic operations are implemented
generically ontop of these.

The implementation for various versions of gcc, msvc and sun studio have
been tested. Additional existing stub implementations for
* Intel icc
* HUPX acc
* IBM xlc
are included but have never been tested. These will likely require
fixes based on buildfarm and user feedback.

As atomic operations also require barriers for some operations the
existing barrier support has been moved into the atomics code.

Author: Andres Freund with contributions from Oskari Saarenmaa
Reviewed-By: Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas and Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: CA+TgmoYBW+ux5-8Ja=Mcyuy8=VXAnVRHp3Kess6Pn3DMXAPAEA@mail.gmail.com,
    20131015123303.GH5300@awork2.anarazel.de,
    20131028205522.GI20248@awork2.anarazel.de
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Andres Freund
2014-09-25 23:49:05 +02:00
parent 9111d46351
commit b64d92f1a5
31 changed files with 2816 additions and 208 deletions
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configure.in
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@ -178,6 +178,12 @@ AC_SUBST(enable_rpath)
PGAC_ARG_BOOL(enable, spinlocks, yes,
[do not use spinlocks])
#
# Atomic operations
#
PGAC_ARG_BOOL(enable, atomics, yes,
[do not use atomic operations])
#
# --enable-debug adds -g to compiler flags
#
@ -936,6 +942,13 @@ else
*** Not using spinlocks will cause poor performance.])
fi
if test "$enable_atomics" = yes; then
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_ATOMICS, 1, [Define to 1 if you want to use atomics if available.])
else
AC_MSG_WARN([
*** Not using atomic operations will cause poor performance.])
fi
if test "$with_gssapi" = yes ; then
if test "$PORTNAME" != "win32"; then
AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gss_init_sec_context, [gssapi_krb5 gss 'gssapi -lkrb5 -lcrypto'], [],
@ -1003,7 +1016,7 @@ AC_SUBST(UUID_LIBS)
##
dnl sys/socket.h is required by AC_FUNC_ACCEPT_ARGTYPES
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([crypt.h dld.h fp_class.h getopt.h ieeefp.h ifaddrs.h langinfo.h poll.h pwd.h sys/ioctl.h sys/ipc.h sys/poll.h sys/pstat.h sys/resource.h sys/select.h sys/sem.h sys/shm.h sys/socket.h sys/sockio.h sys/tas.h sys/time.h sys/un.h termios.h ucred.h utime.h wchar.h wctype.h])
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([atomic.h crypt.h dld.h fp_class.h getopt.h ieeefp.h ifaddrs.h langinfo.h poll.h pwd.h sys/ioctl.h sys/ipc.h sys/poll.h sys/pstat.h sys/resource.h sys/select.h sys/sem.h sys/shm.h sys/socket.h sys/sockio.h sys/tas.h sys/time.h sys/un.h termios.h ucred.h utime.h wchar.h wctype.h])
# On BSD, test for net/if.h will fail unless sys/socket.h
# is included first.
@ -1467,17 +1480,6 @@ fi
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strtoll strtoq], [break])
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strtoull strtouq], [break])
AC_CACHE_CHECK([for builtin locking functions], pgac_cv_gcc_int_atomics,
[AC_TRY_LINK([],
[int lock = 0;
__sync_lock_test_and_set(&lock, 1);
__sync_lock_release(&lock);],
[pgac_cv_gcc_int_atomics="yes"],
[pgac_cv_gcc_int_atomics="no"])])
if test x"$pgac_cv_gcc_int_atomics" = x"yes"; then
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GCC_INT_ATOMICS, 1, [Define to 1 if you have __sync_lock_test_and_set(int *) and friends.])
fi
# Lastly, restore full LIBS list and check for readline/libedit symbols
LIBS="$LIBS_including_readline"
@ -1746,6 +1748,14 @@ AC_CHECK_TYPES([int8, uint8, int64, uint64], [], [],
# C, but is missing on some old platforms.
AC_CHECK_TYPES(sig_atomic_t, [], [], [#include <signal.h>])
# Check for various atomic operations now that we have checked how to declare
# 64bit integers.
PGAC_HAVE_GCC__SYNC_CHAR_TAS
PGAC_HAVE_GCC__SYNC_INT32_TAS
PGAC_HAVE_GCC__SYNC_INT32_CAS
PGAC_HAVE_GCC__SYNC_INT64_CAS
PGAC_HAVE_GCC__ATOMIC_INT32_CAS
PGAC_HAVE_GCC__ATOMIC_INT64_CAS
if test "$PORTNAME" != "win32"
then