<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The reciprocal case (M producers and
N consumers, with M >> N) may also be a problem. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I can share a simple program which seems
to show that the retaliation upon the producers is at least in some cases
(where M is the number of cores of the machine minus 1, and N=1) insufficient:
the program will crash and burn, exhausting the memory because of the mailbox
of the consumer becoming too large. Ideally the back-pressure would increase
steadily until the mailbox of the producer decreases below reasonable limits.
Currently, I think that the developer has either to tune M by hand (which
would depend on the hardware resources...), or to perform some explicit
yielding (with timer:sleep(1) on the producers). Neither of them is very
satisfactory.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">More generally, couldn't we hope that
the scheduling logic could cope with at least most of the M producers-N
consumers scenarios, without resorting to hints from the developer like
specifying a process flag or performing explicit yielding? Maybe (for the
M >> N case) it is just a matter of heavier punishing (ex: ultimately
exponential) whenever the receiving mailbox becomes too large. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Best,</font>
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Olivier.<br>
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<p><font size=3>On 21 Nov 2014 04:53, "Andy Till" <</font><a href=mailto:atill@mail.com><font size=3 color=blue><u>atill@mail.com</u></font></a><font size=3>>
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<br><font size=3>Short outline of how erts_use_sender_punish works, please
comment if there are any errors in the description.<br>
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erts_use_sender_punish is a flag hard coded to 1 (true), when it is true
a process sending messages to another process will have its reduction count
reduced by the number of messages in the receivers message queue multiplied
by four. Sending messages to processes with zero messages in the
queue is free in terms of reductions, but sending messages to load queues
is very expensive and will lead the scheduler to context switch to another
process more often.<br>
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In the case where the the relationship between of producers and consumers
is one to one, this makes sense. It provides back pressure when part
of the system is loaded.<br>
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In the case where there is one producer to many consumers, if one consumer
gets a flood of messages and the producer is punished then the punishment
is not only on the producer but on all other consumers because the producer
cannot create enough work for them as it used all of its reductions.<br>
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This makes performance unpredictable when work cannot be spread evenly.<br>
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Could this be made to be configurable using a process flag?<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Andy<br>
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Code:<br>
</font><font size=3 color=blue><u><br>
</u></font><a href=https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/a70f0ce9b34e4db61dacb8db24f9ab5671ed4c8a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c#L694 target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/a70f0ce9b34e4db61dacb8db24f9ab5671ed4c8a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c#L694</u></font></a><font size=3>
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</u></font><a href=https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/682a6082159568f40615f03d12d44ee70edd14c6/erts/emulator/beam/bif.c#L2058 target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/682a6082159568f40615f03d12d44ee70edd14c6/erts/emulator/beam/bif.c#L2058</u></font></a><font size=3>
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</u></font><a href=https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/a8e12f7168c14cc765a63a51c838d065412795d7/erts/emulator/beam/erl_message.c#L504 target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/a8e12f7168c14cc765a63a51c838d065412795d7/erts/emulator/beam/erl_message.c#L504</u></font></a><font size=3><br>
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Previous mentions and issues with this feature:<br>
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</u></font><a href="http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/060042.html" target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/060042.html</u></font></a><font size=3><br>
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