From: Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Jonathan Tan" <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
"Оля Тележная" <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"Stefan Beller" <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] object-store: allow threaded access to object reading
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 02:57:42 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHd-oW4PtO2CKpd3HFgrJWmQf3MN+MHt5c7V6OGx33LgU-CrOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191113052044.GB3547@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Hi, Peff and Jonathan
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 2:20 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 06:54:18PM -0800, Jonathan Tan wrote:
[...]
> > My concern is that the presence of these "holes" make object reading
> > non-thread-safe, defeating the purpose of obj_read_mutex. In particular,
> > the section quoted above assumes that the window section returned by
> > use_pack() is still valid throughout the inflation, but that window
> > could have been invalidated by things like an excess of windows open,
> > reprepare_packed_git(), etc.
Thank you for spotting this issue!
> > I thought of this for a while but couldn't think of a good solution. If
> > we introduced a reference counting mechanism into Git, that would allow
> > us to hold the window open outside the mutex, but things like
> > reprepare_packed_git() would still be difficult.
>
> I think you could put a reader-writer lock into each window. The code
> here would take the reader lock, and multiple readers could use it at
> the same time. Any time the window needs to be shifted, resized, or
> discarded, that code would take the writer lock, waiting for (and then
> blocking out) any readers.
Great idea, I'll work on that. Thanks!
About the other parallel inflation calls on loose objects at
unpack_loose_short_header(), unpack_loose_header_to_strbuf() and
unpack_loose_rest(): could they suffer from a similar race problem?
FWIU, the inflation input used in these cases comes from
map_loose_object(), and it's not referenced outside this scope. So I
think there's no risk of one thread munmapping the object file while
other is inflating it. Is that right?
> A pthread_rwlock would work, but it would be the first use in Git. I
> think we'd need to find an equivalent for compat/win32/pthread.h.
These[1][2] seems to be the equivalent options on Windows. I'll have
to read these docs more carefully, but [2] seems to be more
interesting in terms of speed. Also, the extra features of [1] are not
really needed for our use case here.
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/reader-writer-spin-locks
[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sync/slim-reader-writer--srw--locks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-14 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-10 20:27 [GSoC][PATCH 0/4] grep: re-enable threads when cached, w/ parallel inflation Matheus Tavares
2019-08-10 20:27 ` [GSoC][PATCH 1/4] object-store: add lock to read_object_file_extended() Matheus Tavares
2019-08-10 20:27 ` [GSoC][PATCH 2/4] grep: allow locks to be enabled individually Matheus Tavares
2019-08-10 20:27 ` [GSoC][PATCH 3/4] grep: disable grep_read_mutex when possible Matheus Tavares
2019-08-10 20:27 ` [GSoC][PATCH 4/4] grep: re-enable threads in some non-worktree cases Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] grep: improve threading and fix race conditions Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] grep: fix race conditions on userdiff calls Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] grep: fix race conditions at grep_submodule() Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] grep: fix racy calls in grep_objects() Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] replace-object: make replace operations thread-safe Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] object-store: allow threaded access to object reading Matheus Tavares
2019-11-12 2:54 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-11-13 5:20 ` Jeff King
2019-11-14 5:57 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino [this message]
2019-11-14 6:01 ` Jeff King
2019-11-14 18:15 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-11-15 4:12 ` Jeff King
2019-12-19 22:27 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-01-09 22:02 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-01-10 19:07 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] grep: replace grep_read_mutex by internal obj read lock Matheus Tavares
2019-10-01 19:23 ` [PATCH] squash! " Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] submodule-config: add skip_if_read option to repo_read_gitmodules() Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] grep: allow submodule functions to run in parallel Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] grep: protect packed_git [re-]initialization Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] grep: re-enable threads in non-worktree case Matheus Tavares
2019-09-30 1:50 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] grep: move driver pre-load out of critical section Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 00/12] grep: improve threading and fix race conditions Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 01/12] grep: fix race conditions on userdiff calls Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 02/12] grep: fix race conditions at grep_submodule() Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 03/12] grep: fix racy calls in grep_objects() Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 04/12] replace-object: make replace operations thread-safe Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 05/12] object-store: allow threaded access to object reading Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 06/12] grep: replace grep_read_mutex by internal obj read lock Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 07/12] submodule-config: add skip_if_read option to repo_read_gitmodules() Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 08/12] grep: allow submodule functions to run in parallel Matheus Tavares
2020-01-29 11:26 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-29 18:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-29 18:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-29 20:42 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-01-30 13:28 ` Philippe Blain
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 09/12] grep: protect packed_git [re-]initialization Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 10/12] grep: re-enable threads in non-worktree case Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:39 ` [PATCH v3 11/12] grep: move driver pre-load out of critical section Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 2:40 ` [PATCH v3 12/12] grep: use no. of cores as the default no. of threads Matheus Tavares
2020-01-16 13:11 ` Victor Leschuk
2020-01-16 14:47 ` [PATCH] " Matheus Tavares
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