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qemu-thread: add a fast path to the Win32 QemuEvent

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QemuEvents are used heavily by call_rcu.  We do not want them to be slow,
but the current implementation does a kernel call on every invocation
of qemu_event_* and won't cut it.

So, wrap a Win32 manual-reset event with a fast userspace path.  The
states and transitions are the same as for the futex and mutex/condvar
implementations, but the slow path is different of course.  The idea
is to reset the Win32 event lazily, as part of a test-reset-test-wait
sequence.  Such a sequence is, indeed, how QemuEvents are used by
RCU and other subsystems!

The patch includes a formal model of the algorithm.

Tested-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
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Paolo Bonzini 2015-08-12 15:38:18 +02:00 committed by Stefan Weil
parent a246a01631
commit 7c9b2bf677
3 changed files with 161 additions and 4 deletions
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docs/win32-qemu-event.promela Normal file
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@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
/*
* This model describes the implementation of QemuEvent in
* util/qemu-thread-win32.c.
*
* Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
*
* This file is in the public domain. If you really want a license,
* the WTFPL will do.
*
* To verify it:
* spin -a docs/event.promela
* gcc -O2 pan.c -DSAFETY
* ./a.out
*/
bool event;
int value;
/* Primitives for a Win32 event */
#define RAW_RESET event = false
#define RAW_SET event = true
#define RAW_WAIT do :: event -> break; od
#if 0
/* Basic sanity checking: test the Win32 event primitives */
#define RESET RAW_RESET
#define SET RAW_SET
#define WAIT RAW_WAIT
#else
/* Full model: layer a userspace-only fast path on top of the RAW_*
* primitives. SET/RESET/WAIT have exactly the same semantics as
* RAW_SET/RAW_RESET/RAW_WAIT, but try to avoid invoking them.
*/
#define EV_SET 0
#define EV_FREE 1
#define EV_BUSY -1
int state = EV_FREE;
int xchg_result;
#define SET if :: state != EV_SET -> \
atomic { /* xchg_result=xchg(state, EV_SET) */ \
xchg_result = state; \
state = EV_SET; \
} \
if :: xchg_result == EV_BUSY -> RAW_SET; \
:: else -> skip; \
fi; \
:: else -> skip; \
fi
#define RESET if :: state == EV_SET -> atomic { state = state | EV_FREE; } \
:: else -> skip; \
fi
int tmp1, tmp2;
#define WAIT tmp1 = state; \
if :: tmp1 != EV_SET -> \
if :: tmp1 == EV_FREE -> \
RAW_RESET; \
atomic { /* tmp2=cas(state, EV_FREE, EV_BUSY) */ \
tmp2 = state; \
if :: tmp2 == EV_FREE -> state = EV_BUSY; \
:: else -> skip; \
fi; \
} \
if :: tmp2 == EV_SET -> tmp1 = EV_SET; \
:: else -> tmp1 = EV_BUSY; \
fi; \
:: else -> skip; \
fi; \
assert(tmp1 != EV_FREE); \
if :: tmp1 == EV_BUSY -> RAW_WAIT; \
:: else -> skip; \
fi; \
:: else -> skip; \
fi
#endif
active proctype waiter()
{
if
:: !value ->
RESET;
if
:: !value -> WAIT;
:: else -> skip;
fi;
:: else -> skip;
fi;
assert(value);
}
active proctype notifier()
{
value = true;
SET;
}

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include/qemu/thread-win32.h
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@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct QemuSemaphore {
};
struct QemuEvent {
int value;
HANDLE event;
};

66
util/qemu-thread-win32.c
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@ -238,10 +238,34 @@ void qemu_sem_wait(QemuSemaphore *sem)
}
}
/* Wrap a Win32 manual-reset event with a fast userspace path. The idea
* is to reset the Win32 event lazily, as part of a test-reset-test-wait
* sequence. Such a sequence is, indeed, how QemuEvents are used by
* RCU and other subsystems!
*
* Valid transitions:
* - free->set, when setting the event
* - busy->set, when setting the event, followed by futex_wake
* - set->free, when resetting the event
* - free->busy, when waiting
*
* set->busy does not happen (it can be observed from the outside but
* it really is set->free->busy).
*
* busy->free provably cannot happen; to enforce it, the set->free transition
* is done with an OR, which becomes a no-op if the event has concurrently
* transitioned to free or busy (and is faster than cmpxchg).
*/
#define EV_SET 0
#define EV_FREE 1
#define EV_BUSY -1
void qemu_event_init(QemuEvent *ev, bool init)
{
/* Manual reset. */
ev->event = CreateEvent(NULL, TRUE, init, NULL);
ev->event = CreateEvent(NULL, TRUE, TRUE, NULL);
ev->value = (init ? EV_SET : EV_FREE);
}
void qemu_event_destroy(QemuEvent *ev)
@ -251,17 +275,51 @@ void qemu_event_destroy(QemuEvent *ev)
void qemu_event_set(QemuEvent *ev)
{
SetEvent(ev->event);
if (atomic_mb_read(&ev->value) != EV_SET) {
if (atomic_xchg(&ev->value, EV_SET) == EV_BUSY) {
/* There were waiters, wake them up. */
SetEvent(ev->event);
}
}
}
void qemu_event_reset(QemuEvent *ev)
{
ResetEvent(ev->event);
if (atomic_mb_read(&ev->value) == EV_SET) {
/* If there was a concurrent reset (or even reset+wait),
* do nothing. Otherwise change EV_SET->EV_FREE.
*/
atomic_or(&ev->value, EV_FREE);
}
}
void qemu_event_wait(QemuEvent *ev)
{
WaitForSingleObject(ev->event, INFINITE);
unsigned value;
value = atomic_mb_read(&ev->value);
if (value != EV_SET) {
if (value == EV_FREE) {
/* qemu_event_set is not yet going to call SetEvent, but we are
* going to do another check for EV_SET below when setting EV_BUSY.
* At that point it is safe to call WaitForSingleObject.
*/
ResetEvent(ev->event);
/* Tell qemu_event_set that there are waiters. No need to retry
* because there cannot be a concurent busy->free transition.
* After the CAS, the event will be either set or busy.
*/
if (atomic_cmpxchg(&ev->value, EV_FREE, EV_BUSY) == EV_SET) {
value = EV_SET;
} else {
value = EV_BUSY;
}
}
if (value == EV_BUSY) {
WaitForSingleObject(ev->event, INFINITE);
}
}
}
struct QemuThreadData {