[erlang-questions] Does port driver block scheduler threads?

Ilyushonak Barys barys_ilyushonak@REDACTED
Tue Jul 3 16:43:09 CEST 2012


Hi,

http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/driver.html#id82769
and source code from OTP erts/example/next_perm.cc

Please, note, there is no implementation of do_free method in this file:
Line 106, driver_async(port, NULL, do_perm, async_data, NULL);

Hope this helps.

To be honest it would be great to find more complex example. 
It would great contribution If someone can share it.

Regards,
Boris

-----Original Message-----
From: erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED [mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Zabrane Mickael
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 6:26 PM
To: Serge Aleynikov
Cc: erlang-questions@REDACTED
Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Does port driver block scheduler threads?

Hi Serge,

Where one can find a simple driver_async example to learn from?

thx
Zab

On Jul 3, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Serge Aleynikov wrote:

> Driver callbacks are executed by a scheduler thread in synchronous 
> manner, so what you are describing is a normal behavior of a linked-in 
> driver.  Use driver_async to off-load a long computation to another 
> thread from a pool different from the scheduling threads.
> 
> On 7/3/2012 7:20 AM, Zhemzhitsky Sergey wrote:
>> Hi erlangers,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Recently we have developed port (linked-in) driver and faced with 
>> some performance issues.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The port uses ERL_DRV_FLAG_USE_PORT_LOCKING locking mode, so as we 
>> understand calls to different port instances should have not blocked 
>> each other.
>> 
>> SMP count is greater than 1.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> So the first question is:
>> 
>> Is it possible to have multiple port instances executing 
>> time-consuming operation in parallel, i.e. at the same time?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We expected port instances do not influence on each other. However, 
>> all the calls are blocked but the first one. So the scheduler thread 
>> seems to be blocked during the port instance invocation.
>> 
>> Is driver_async function required for the issues like above?
>> 
>> Is it possible to unblock the scheduler thread before 
>> erlang:port_call completes?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> Sergey
>> 
>> 
>> 
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