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Recursive mutexes now go as fast as normal mutexes. The tradeoff is they are no longer safe to use in signal handlers. However you can still have signal safe mutexes if you set your mutex to both recursive and pshared. You can also make functions that use recursive mutexes signal safe using sigprocmask to ensure recursion doesn't happen due to any signal handler The impact of this change is that, on Windows, many functions which edit the file descriptor table rely on recursive mutexes, e.g. open(). If you develop your app so it uses pread() and pwrite() then your app should go very fast when performing a heavily multithreaded and contended workload For example, when scaling to 40+ cores, *NSYNC mutexes can go as much as 1000x faster (in CPU time) than the naive recursive lock implementation. Now recursive will use *NSYNC under the hood when it's possible to do so
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DESCRIPTION
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*NSYNC is a synchronization primitives library.
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LICENSE
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Apache 2.0
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ORIGIN
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git@github.com:google/nsync
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commit ac5489682760393fe21bd2a8e038b528442412a7
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Author: Mike Burrows <m3b@google.com>
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Date: Wed Jun 1 16:47:52 2022 -0700
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LOCAL CHANGES
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- Fix nsync_mu_unlock() on Apple Silicon
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- Add clock parameter to many NSYNC wait APIs
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- Time APIs were so good that they're now in libc
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- Double linked list API was so good that it's now in libc
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- Max delay on sleep should be 20ms (not 4ms) on OpenBSD and NetBSD
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- Support Apple's ulock futexes which are internal but nicer than GCD
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- Ensure resources such as POSIX semaphores are are released on fork.
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- Modified *NSYNC to allocate waiter objects on the stack. We need it
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because we use *NSYNC mutexes to implement POSIX mutexes, which are
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too low-level to safely depend on malloc, or even mmap in our case.
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- Rewrote most of the semaphore and futex system call support code so
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it works well with Cosmopolitan's fat runtime portability. *NSYNC's
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unit test suite passes on all supported platforms. However the BSDs
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currently appear to be overutilizing CPU time compared with others.
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This appears to be the fault of the OSes rather than *NSYNC / Cosmo
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- Support POSIX thread cancellation. APIs that wait on condition vars
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are now cancellation points. In PTHREAD_CANCEL_MASKED mode they may
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return ECANCELED. In PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED mode the POSIX threads
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library will unwind the stack to re-acquire locks and free waiters.
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On the other hand the *NSYNC APIs for mutexes will now safely block
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thread cancellation, but you can still use *NSYNC notes to do that.
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