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This patch adds support for spinlocks in Asterisk.

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There are cases in Asterisk where it might be desirable to lock
a short critical code section but not incur the context switch
and yield penalty of a mutex or rwlock.  The primary spinlock
implementations execute exclusively in userspace and therefore
don't incur those penalties.  Spinlocks are NOT meant to be a
general replacement for mutexes.  They should be used only for
protecting short blocks of critical code such as simple compares
and assignments.  Operations that may block, hold a lock, or
cause the thread to give up it's timeslice should NEVER be
attempted in a spinlock.

The first use case for spinlocks is in astobj2 - internal_ao2_ref.
Currently the manipulation of the reference counter is done with
an ast_atomic_fetchadd_int which works fine.  When weak reference
containers are introduced however, there's an additional comparison
and assignment that'll need to be done while the lock is held.
A mutex would be way too expensive here, hence the spinlock.
Given that lock contention in this situation would be infrequent,
the overhead of the spinlock is only a few more machine instructions
than the current ast_atomic_fetchadd_int call.

ASTERISK-23553 #close
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3405/
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Merged revisions 412976 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/12


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George Joseph
2014-04-23 20:13:30 +00:00
parent e6c4b97521
commit 64045f0b57
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include/asterisk/autoconfig.h.in
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@@ -667,6 +667,10 @@
/* Define if you have POSIX threads libraries and header files. */
#undef HAVE_PTHREAD
/* Define to 1 if your system defines PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP in pthread.h
*/
#undef HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP
/* Define to 1 if your system defines PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE_NP in pthread.h
*/
#undef HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE_NP
@@ -685,6 +689,9 @@
/* Define if your system has pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock() */
#undef HAVE_PTHREAD_RWLOCK_TIMEDWRLOCK
/* Define to 1 if your system has pthread_spinlock_t in pthread.h */
#undef HAVE_PTHREAD_SPINLOCK
/* Define to 1 if the system has the type `ptrdiff_t'. */
#undef HAVE_PTRDIFF_T