2 * sgen-workers.c: Worker threads for parallel and concurrent GC.
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27 #include "mono/sgen/sgen-gc.h"
28 #include "mono/sgen/sgen-workers.h"
29 #include "mono/sgen/sgen-thread-pool.h"
30 #include "mono/utils/mono-membar.h"
31 #include "mono/sgen/sgen-client.h"
33 static int workers_num;
34 static volatile gboolean forced_stop;
35 static WorkerData *workers_data;
37 static SgenSectionGrayQueue workers_distribute_gray_queue;
38 static gboolean workers_distribute_gray_queue_inited;
41 * Allowed transitions:
43 * | from \ to | NOT WORKING | WORKING | WORK ENQUEUED |
44 * |--------------------+-------------+---------+---------------+
45 * | NOT WORKING | - | - | main |
46 * | WORKING | worker | - | main |
47 * | WORK ENQUEUED | - | worker | - |
49 * The WORK ENQUEUED state guarantees that the worker thread will inspect the queue again at
50 * least once. Only after looking at the queue will it go back to WORKING, and then,
51 * eventually, to NOT WORKING. After enqueuing work the main thread transitions the state
52 * to WORK ENQUEUED. Signalling the worker thread to wake up is only necessary if the old
53 * state was NOT WORKING.
64 static volatile State workers_state;
66 static SgenObjectOperations * volatile idle_func_object_ops;
67 static SgenThreadPoolJob * volatile preclean_job;
69 static guint64 stat_workers_num_finished;
72 set_state (State old_state, State new_state)
74 SGEN_ASSERT (0, old_state != new_state, "Why are we transitioning to the same state?");
75 if (new_state == STATE_NOT_WORKING)
76 SGEN_ASSERT (0, old_state == STATE_WORKING, "We can only transition to NOT WORKING from WORKING");
77 else if (new_state == STATE_WORKING)
78 SGEN_ASSERT (0, old_state == STATE_WORK_ENQUEUED, "We can only transition to WORKING from WORK ENQUEUED");
79 if (new_state == STATE_NOT_WORKING || new_state == STATE_WORKING)
80 SGEN_ASSERT (6, sgen_thread_pool_is_thread_pool_thread (mono_native_thread_id_get ()), "Only the worker thread is allowed to transition to NOT_WORKING or WORKING");
82 return InterlockedCompareExchange (&workers_state, new_state, old_state) == old_state;
86 state_is_working_or_enqueued (State state)
88 return state == STATE_WORKING || state == STATE_WORK_ENQUEUED;
92 sgen_workers_ensure_awake (void)
95 gboolean did_set_state;
98 old_state = workers_state;
100 if (old_state == STATE_WORK_ENQUEUED)
103 did_set_state = set_state (old_state, STATE_WORK_ENQUEUED);
104 } while (!did_set_state);
106 if (!state_is_working_or_enqueued (old_state))
107 sgen_thread_pool_idle_signal ();
111 worker_try_finish (void)
115 ++stat_workers_num_finished;
118 old_state = workers_state;
120 SGEN_ASSERT (0, old_state != STATE_NOT_WORKING, "How did we get from doing idle work to NOT WORKING without setting it ourselves?");
121 if (old_state == STATE_WORK_ENQUEUED)
123 SGEN_ASSERT (0, old_state == STATE_WORKING, "What other possibility is there?");
125 /* We are the last thread to go to sleep. */
126 } while (!set_state (old_state, STATE_NOT_WORKING));
128 binary_protocol_worker_finish (sgen_timestamp (), forced_stop);
132 sgen_workers_enqueue_job (SgenThreadPoolJob *job, gboolean enqueue)
135 job->func (NULL, job);
136 sgen_thread_pool_job_free (job);
140 sgen_thread_pool_job_enqueue (job);
144 sgen_workers_wait_for_jobs_finished (void)
146 sgen_thread_pool_wait_for_all_jobs ();
148 * If the idle task was never triggered or it finished before the last job did and
149 * then didn't get triggered again, we might end up in the situation of having
150 * something in the gray queue yet the idle task not working. The easiest way to
151 * make sure this doesn't stay that way is to just trigger it again after all jobs
154 sgen_workers_ensure_awake ();
158 workers_get_work (WorkerData *data)
160 SgenMajorCollector *major;
162 g_assert (sgen_gray_object_queue_is_empty (&data->private_gray_queue));
164 /* If we're concurrent, steal from the workers distribute gray queue. */
165 major = sgen_get_major_collector ();
166 if (major->is_concurrent) {
167 GrayQueueSection *section = sgen_section_gray_queue_dequeue (&workers_distribute_gray_queue);
169 sgen_gray_object_enqueue_section (&data->private_gray_queue, section);
174 /* Nobody to steal from */
175 g_assert (sgen_gray_object_queue_is_empty (&data->private_gray_queue));
180 concurrent_enqueue_check (GCObject *obj)
182 g_assert (sgen_concurrent_collection_in_progress ());
183 g_assert (!sgen_ptr_in_nursery (obj));
184 g_assert (SGEN_LOAD_VTABLE (obj));
188 init_private_gray_queue (WorkerData *data)
190 sgen_gray_object_queue_init (&data->private_gray_queue,
191 sgen_get_major_collector ()->is_concurrent ? concurrent_enqueue_check : NULL);
195 thread_pool_init_func (void *data_untyped)
197 WorkerData *data = (WorkerData *)data_untyped;
198 SgenMajorCollector *major = sgen_get_major_collector ();
200 sgen_client_thread_register_worker ();
202 if (!major->is_concurrent)
205 init_private_gray_queue (data);
209 continue_idle_func (void)
211 return state_is_working_or_enqueued (workers_state);
215 marker_idle_func (void *data_untyped)
217 WorkerData *data = (WorkerData *)data_untyped;
219 SGEN_ASSERT (0, continue_idle_func (), "Why are we called when we're not supposed to work?");
220 SGEN_ASSERT (0, sgen_concurrent_collection_in_progress (), "The worker should only mark in concurrent collections.");
222 if (workers_state == STATE_WORK_ENQUEUED) {
223 set_state (STATE_WORK_ENQUEUED, STATE_WORKING);
224 SGEN_ASSERT (0, workers_state != STATE_NOT_WORKING, "How did we get from WORK ENQUEUED to NOT WORKING?");
227 if (!forced_stop && (!sgen_gray_object_queue_is_empty (&data->private_gray_queue) || workers_get_work (data))) {
228 ScanCopyContext ctx = CONTEXT_FROM_OBJECT_OPERATIONS (idle_func_object_ops, &data->private_gray_queue);
230 SGEN_ASSERT (0, !sgen_gray_object_queue_is_empty (&data->private_gray_queue), "How is our gray queue empty if we just got work?");
232 sgen_drain_gray_stack (ctx);
234 SgenThreadPoolJob *job = preclean_job;
236 sgen_thread_pool_job_enqueue (job);
239 worker_try_finish ();
245 init_distribute_gray_queue (void)
247 if (workers_distribute_gray_queue_inited) {
248 g_assert (sgen_section_gray_queue_is_empty (&workers_distribute_gray_queue));
249 g_assert (workers_distribute_gray_queue.locked);
253 sgen_section_gray_queue_init (&workers_distribute_gray_queue, TRUE,
254 sgen_get_major_collector ()->is_concurrent ? concurrent_enqueue_check : NULL);
255 workers_distribute_gray_queue_inited = TRUE;
259 sgen_workers_init_distribute_gray_queue (void)
261 SGEN_ASSERT (0, sgen_get_major_collector ()->is_concurrent,
262 "Why should we init the distribute gray queue if we don't need it?");
263 init_distribute_gray_queue ();
267 sgen_workers_init (int num_workers)
270 void **workers_data_ptrs = (void **)alloca(num_workers * sizeof(void *));
272 if (!sgen_get_major_collector ()->is_concurrent) {
273 sgen_thread_pool_init (num_workers, thread_pool_init_func, NULL, NULL, NULL);
277 //g_print ("initing %d workers\n", num_workers);
279 workers_num = num_workers;
281 workers_data = (WorkerData *)sgen_alloc_internal_dynamic (sizeof (WorkerData) * num_workers, INTERNAL_MEM_WORKER_DATA, TRUE);
282 memset (workers_data, 0, sizeof (WorkerData) * num_workers);
284 init_distribute_gray_queue ();
286 for (i = 0; i < workers_num; ++i)
287 workers_data_ptrs [i] = (void *) &workers_data [i];
289 sgen_thread_pool_init (num_workers, thread_pool_init_func, marker_idle_func, continue_idle_func, workers_data_ptrs);
291 mono_counters_register ("# workers finished", MONO_COUNTER_GC | MONO_COUNTER_ULONG, &stat_workers_num_finished);
295 sgen_workers_stop_all_workers (void)
298 mono_memory_write_barrier ();
301 sgen_thread_pool_wait_for_all_jobs ();
302 sgen_thread_pool_idle_wait ();
303 SGEN_ASSERT (0, workers_state == STATE_NOT_WORKING, "Can only signal enqueue work when in no work state");
307 sgen_workers_start_all_workers (SgenObjectOperations *object_ops, SgenThreadPoolJob *job)
310 idle_func_object_ops = object_ops;
312 mono_memory_write_barrier ();
314 sgen_workers_ensure_awake ();
318 sgen_workers_join (void)
322 sgen_thread_pool_wait_for_all_jobs ();
323 sgen_thread_pool_idle_wait ();
324 SGEN_ASSERT (0, workers_state == STATE_NOT_WORKING, "Can only signal enqueue work when in no work state");
326 /* At this point all the workers have stopped. */
328 SGEN_ASSERT (0, sgen_section_gray_queue_is_empty (&workers_distribute_gray_queue), "Why is there still work left to do?");
329 for (i = 0; i < workers_num; ++i)
330 SGEN_ASSERT (0, sgen_gray_object_queue_is_empty (&workers_data [i].private_gray_queue), "Why is there still work left to do?");
334 * Can only be called if the workers are stopped.
335 * If we're stopped, there are also no pending jobs.
338 sgen_workers_have_idle_work (void)
342 SGEN_ASSERT (0, forced_stop && sgen_workers_all_done (), "Checking for idle work should only happen if the workers are stopped.");
344 if (!sgen_section_gray_queue_is_empty (&workers_distribute_gray_queue))
347 for (i = 0; i < workers_num; ++i) {
348 if (!sgen_gray_object_queue_is_empty (&workers_data [i].private_gray_queue))
356 sgen_workers_all_done (void)
358 return workers_state == STATE_NOT_WORKING;
361 /* Must only be used for debugging */
363 sgen_workers_are_working (void)
365 return state_is_working_or_enqueued (workers_state);
368 SgenSectionGrayQueue*
369 sgen_workers_get_distribute_section_gray_queue (void)
371 return &workers_distribute_gray_queue;