[erlang-questions] +secio emulator flag

[Mikael Karlsson]

Thanks Lukas and Michael,

> (sorry for the late reply, I meant to reply to this before but forgot)
No problem, maybe your personal secio flag also was set to true and
something else came in between :-) .

The use case I have here is a single (tcp) connection with high load.
I think that there are other bottlenecks with this scenario since one
can only attach one scheduler/erlang process to this, if I understand
it right, but nevertheless would setting secio to false give the
attached erlang process more time to finish the work in this case?

Best Regards
Mikael


2017-09-11 22:09 GMT+02:00 Michael Truog <mjtruog@REDACTED>:
> On 09/11/2017 06:32 AM, Lukas Larsson wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Mikael Karlsson <karlsson.rm@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>>
>> I noticed that the secio emulator flag (scheduler eager check for io)
>> default value has changed from false to true since ERTS 7.0. Could someone
>> explain what this means in practice, I do not quite understand the line:
>> "This, however, also implies that execution of outstanding I/O operation is
>> not prioritized to the same extent as when false is passed."
>
>
> The eager check io flag instructs the emulator when it should check for new
> I/O events (internally called check_io)  in the fds that it is currently
> interested in.
>
> Without secio, the schedulers will first finish with all work generated from
> the previous check_io. If a lot of I/O events where triggered by the
> check_io, ports may be temporarily prioritized higher than processes in
> order to be able to do the next check_io sooner.
>
> With secio, the next check_io can be done before all events of the previous
> check_io are consumed. When this feature is enabled, the temporary higher
> prioritization of ports is removed. This is the change in priority that the
> documentation is trying to explain.
>
>>
>> Is there any special cases where you would prefer to still have it set to
>> false.
>
>
> I see no reason to not have secio enabled.
>
> I have tested in the past to determine that secio can make Erlang source
> code performance poor, if it isn't utilizing an Erlang port type, though the
> testing was with Erlang/OTP 17.4
> (https://github.com/CloudI/loadtests/raw/master/tests/http_req/loadtest/results_v1_4_0/201412_summary.pdf).
>
> Best Regards,
> Michael