[erlang-bugs] efile_drv & async thread key

[Lukas Larsson]

Sigh, apparently I spoke too soon.

I remembered incorrectly about the change. It was in R16B that 
ErlDrvPort became a ptr and it was an id before R16B. Anyways, it is odd 
that the ptr is 8 bit aligned on you system. On mine (Ubuntu 13.04, 
x86_64) the ptrs are not aligned and the load is nicely distributed 
among async threads. If I remember correctly you are using FreeBSD on 
x86_64? I'll check if I can reproduce the behavior you are seeing on our 
FreeBSD machine.

Lukas

On 13/08/13 09:40, Lukas Larsson wrote:
> Hello Rick!
>
> Which version of Erlang are you using? From R16B (I think), the 
> ErlDrvPort datatype no longer is a pointer to the port struct. Instead 
> it is the slot id into the port table and those ids should contain all 
> values. I did a quick test on my computer running the latest on maint 
> on github and seem to get a full spread over all async threads.
>
> Lukas
>
> On 13/08/13 05:40, Rick Reed wrote:
>> It looks to me as though there's a bit of a problem in the way 
>> efile_drv.c generates the
>> key that's used to select an async driver queue.  It uses the address 
>> of the port which
>> on our system is 8-byte aligned.  Meanwhile, erl_async.c does a 
>> simple mod operation
>> with the number of async threads, so the number of threads that can 
>> actually be used
>> by file operations is 1/8th of the number configured.  I suspect this 
>> isn't intended.
>>
>> Rr
>>
>>
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