- enable concurrency according to environment variable PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY
- add idle VP wakeup if there are additional jobs and idle VPs
- make reidlequeue per VP
- enable spinning for locks
- fix race condition in alarm processing
- fix race condition in mutex locking
- make debugging output line buffered and add VP prefix to debug lines
officially have undefined behavior, from returning an error code to raising
an assertion failure.
Also, don't bother to explicitly test for (illegal) null pointers and return
an error; they'll bomb out soon enough.
front of the sleep queue rather than the back. This is more
cache-friendly behavior and within the (lack of) constraints on wakeup
ordering imposed on equal-priority threads.
* Use a double-checked locking technique to avoid taking
the interlock in pthread_mutex_unlock().
* In pthread_mutex_lock() and pthread_mutex_trylock(), only store the
stack pointer, not the thread ID, in ptm_owner. Do the translation
to a thread ID in the slow-lock, errorcheck, and recursive mutex
cases rather than in the common path.
* Juggle where pthread__self() is called, to move it out of the fast path.
Overall, this means that neither pthread_self() nor
pthread_spin[un]lock() are used in the course of locking and unlocking
an uncontested mutex. Speeds up the fast path by 40-50%, and
eliminates about 98% of spinlocks used by a couple of large threaded
applications.
(Still a GET_MUTEX_PRIVATE() in the fast path... perhaps the type
should be in the main body of the mutex).
nathanw