[erlang-patches] Disable scheduler sleep

[Fredrik]

On 05/17/2013 11:38 PM, Scott Lystig Fritchie wrote:
> For the OTP team's consideration ... Disable scheduler sleep
>
> For use in conjunction with "+scl false", for example:
>
>      erl +scl false +zdnfgtse 500:500
>
> See the discussion in these mailing list threads for more
> background:
>
> * http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-April/073490.html
> * http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-bugs/2013-May/003529.html
>
> As noted in the email threads, all R15B releases as well as R16B are
> vulnerable to the schedulers falling asleep too agressively.  I've also
> tested the future will-eventually-be-R16B01 from the OTP team's source
> repo's "maint" branch, as described by:
>
>      % git log | head -6
>      commit a70d09b6e611771b467a91c7ebeca1e14390553a
>      Merge: 8260029 fb8cbfa
>      Author: Fredrik Gustafsson<fredrik@REDACTED>
>      Date:   Fri May 17 10:03:30 2013 +0200
>
>          Merge branch 'nm/mnesia_idx_insert_speedup/OTP-11103' into maint
>
> ... and it is vulnerable, also.
>
> Patch info:
>
> git fetch git://github.com/slfritchie/otp.git disable-scheduler-sleeps
>
> https://github.com/slfritchie/otp/compare/erlang:maint...disable-scheduler-sleeps
> https://github.com/slfritchie/otp/compare/erlang:maint...disable-scheduler-sleeps.patch
>
> With this patch, release R16B and the today's "maint" branch are not
> vulnerable when run with "erl +scl false +zdnfgtse 500:500".
>
> This patch may be applied to the R15B releases and works correctly.
> The "patch" utility will complain about some fuzz, but it should not
> actually fail.
>
> -Scott
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Hello Scott,
Your patch seems to fail to build on windows:
****\erts\emulator\beam\erl_process.h(1987) : error C2061: syntax error 
: identifier 'dnfgtse_sleep_n'
****\erts\emulator\beam\erl_process.h(1987) : error C2059: syntax error 
: ';'

I am removing your patch from pu for now and wait for your response to this.
The review process will not interrupt though.

-- 

BR Fredrik Gustafsson
Erlang OTP Team