4 Commits (f8aaf585a39d496479eb8a4e55f2e327d02b37ca)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
David M. Lee	2de42c2a25	Multiple revisions 399887,400138,400178,400180-400181 ... ........ r399887 | dlee | 2013-09-26 10:41:47 -0500 (Thu, 26 Sep 2013) | 1 line Minor performance bump by not allocate manager variable struct if we don't need it ........ r400138 | dlee | 2013-09-30 10:24:00 -0500 (Mon, 30 Sep 2013) | 23 lines Stasis performance improvements This patch addresses several performance problems that were found in the initial performance testing of Asterisk 12. The Stasis dispatch object was allocated as an AO2 object, even though it has a very confined lifecycle. This was replaced with a straight ast_malloc(). The Stasis message router was spending an inordinate amount of time searching hash tables. In this case, most of our routers had 6 or fewer routes in them to begin with. This was replaced with an array that's searched linearly for the route. We more heavily rely on AO2 objects in Asterisk 12, and the memset() in ao2_ref() actually became noticeable on the profile. This was #ifdef'ed to only run when AO2_DEBUG was enabled. After being misled by an erroneous comment in taskprocessor.c during profiling, the wrong comment was removed. Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2873/ ........ r400178 | dlee | 2013-09-30 13:26:27 -0500 (Mon, 30 Sep 2013) | 24 lines Taskprocessor optimization; switch Stasis to use taskprocessors This patch optimizes taskprocessor to use a semaphore for signaling, which the OS can do a better job at managing contention and waiting that we can with a mutex and condition. The taskprocessor execution was also slightly optimized to reduce the number of locks taken. The only observable difference in the taskprocessor implementation is that when the final reference to the taskprocessor goes away, it will execute all tasks to completion instead of discarding the unexecuted tasks. For systems where unnamed semaphores are not supported, a really simple semaphore implementation is provided. (Which gives identical performance as the original taskprocessor implementation). The way we ended up implementing Stasis caused the threadpool to be a burden instead of a boost to performance. This was switched to just use taskprocessors directly for subscriptions. Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2881/ ........ r400180 | dlee | 2013-09-30 13:39:34 -0500 (Mon, 30 Sep 2013) | 28 lines Optimize how Stasis forwards are dispatched This patch optimizes how forwards are dispatched in Stasis. Originally, forwards were dispatched as subscriptions that are invoked on the publishing thread. This did not account for the vast number of forwards we would end up having in the system, and the amount of work it would take to walk though the forward subscriptions. This patch modifies Stasis so that rather than walking the tree of forwards on every dispatch, when forwards and subscriptions are changed, the subscriber list for every topic in the tree is changed. This has a couple of benefits. First, this reduces the workload of dispatching messages. It also reduces contention when dispatching to different topics that happen to forward to the same aggregation topic (as happens with all of the channel, bridge and endpoint topics). Since forwards are no longer subscriptions, the bulk of this patch is simply changing stasis_subscription objects to stasis_forward objects (which, admittedly, I should have done in the first place.) Since this required me to yet again put in a growing array, I finally abstracted that out into a set of ast_vector macros in asterisk/vector.h. Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2883/ ........ r400181 | dlee | 2013-09-30 13:48:57 -0500 (Mon, 30 Sep 2013) | 28 lines Remove dispatch object allocation from Stasis publishing While looking for areas for performance improvement, I realized that an unused feature in Stasis was negatively impacting performance. When a message is sent to a subscriber, a dispatch object is allocated for the dispatch, containing the topic the message was published to, the subscriber the message is being sent to, and the message itself. The topic is actually unused by any subscriber in Asterisk today. And the subscriber is associated with the taskprocessor the message is being dispatched to. First, this patch removes the unused topic parameter from Stasis subscription callbacks. Second, this patch introduces the concept of taskprocessor local data, data that may be set on a taskprocessor and provided along with the data pointer when a task is pushed using the ast_taskprocessor_push_local() call. This allows the task to have both data specific to that taskprocessor, in addition to data specific to that invocation. With those two changes, the dispatch object can be removed completely, and the message is simply refcounted and sent directly to the taskprocessor. Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2884/ ........ Merged revisions 399887,400138,400178,400180-400181 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/12 git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@400186 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3	12 years ago
David M. Lee	f29d969a79	Stasis: address refcount races; implementation comments ... Change r395954 reordered some stasis object destruction, which should have been fine. Unfortunately, it caused some hard to reproduce issues related to objects being accessed after they had been destroyed. The patch in r396329 fixed the destruction order problem; this patch addresses the underlying issue. A few other stasis-related fixes were also added. * Add ref-bumps around areas where objects may get transitively destroyed. (For example, where we lock a topic, unref a subscription, which unrefs the topic, which explodes the topic when we try to unlock it.) * Wrote an extensive doxygen page about Stasis implementation, relationships between objects, lifecycles of objects, how the refcounting works, etc. Many other comments were added, corrected, or cleaned up. * Added an assert to the topic dtor to catch extra ref decrements. * Fixed type used after destruction errors for graceful shutdown in stasis_channels.c. * I added two unit tests in an attempt to catch destruction order issues. Since the underlying cause is a race condition, though, the tests rarely failed even when the code was wrong. * Fixed a leak in stasis_cache_pattern.c. (closes issue ASTERISK-22243) Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2746/ git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@396842 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3	13 years ago
David M. Lee	b97d318b7b	Tweak caching topics to fix CEL tests ... The Stasis changes in r395954 had an unanticipated side effect: messages published directly to an _all topic does not get forwarded to the corresponding caching topic. This patch fixes that by changing how caching topics forward messages, and how the caching pattern forwards are setup. For the caching pattern, the all_topic is forwarded to the all_topic_cached. This forwards messages published directly to the all_topic to all_topic_cached. In order to avoid duplicate messages on all_topic_cached, caching topics were changed to no longer forward uncached messages. Subscribers to an individual caching topic should only expect to receive cache updates, and subscription change messages. Since individual caching topics are new, this shouldn't be a problem. There are a few minor changes to the pre-cache split behavior. * For topics changed to use the caching pattern, the all_topic_cached will forward snapshots in addition to cache updates. Since subscribers by design ignore unexpected messages, this should be fine. * Caching topics that don't use the caching pattern no longer forward non-cache updates. This makes no difference for the current caching topics. * mwi_topic_cached, channel_by_name_topic and presence_state_topic_cached have no subscribers * device_state_topic_cached's only subscriber only processes cache udpates (issue ASTERISK-22243) Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2738 git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@396329 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3	13 years ago
David M. Lee	e1b959ccbb	Split caching out from the stasis_caching_topic. ... In working with res_stasis, I discovered a significant limitation to the current structure of stasis_caching_topics: you cannot subscribe to cache updates for a single channel/bridge/endpoint/etc. To address this, this patch splits the cache away from the stasis_caching_topic, making it a first class object. The stasis_cache object is shared amongst individual stasis_caching_topics that are created per channel/endpoint/etc. These are still forwarded to global whatever_all_cached topics, so their use from most of the code does not change. In making these changes, I noticed that we frequently used a similar pattern for bridges, endpoints and channels: single_topic ----------------> all_topic ^ | single_topic_cached ----+----> all_topic_cached | +----> cache This pattern was extracted as the 'Stasis Caching Pattern', defined in stasis_caching_pattern.h. This avoids a lot of duplicate code between the different domain objects. Since the cache is now disassociated from its upstream caching topics, this also necessitated a change to how the 'guaranteed' flag worked for retrieving from a cache. The code for handling the caching guarantee was extracted into a 'stasis_topic_wait' function, which works for any stasis_topic. (closes issue ASTERISK-22002) Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2672/ git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@395954 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3	13 years ago