qemu/thread-pool.c
<<
>>
Prefs
   1/*
   2 * QEMU block layer thread pool
   3 *
   4 * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2008
   5 * Copyright Red Hat, Inc. 2012
   6 *
   7 * Authors:
   8 *  Anthony Liguori   <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
   9 *  Paolo Bonzini     <pbonzini@redhat.com>
  10 *
  11 * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.  See
  12 * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  13 *
  14 * Contributions after 2012-01-13 are licensed under the terms of the
  15 * GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
  16 */
  17#include "qemu-common.h"
  18#include "qemu-queue.h"
  19#include "qemu-thread.h"
  20#include "osdep.h"
  21#include "qemu-coroutine.h"
  22#include "trace.h"
  23#include "block_int.h"
  24#include "event_notifier.h"
  25#include "thread-pool.h"
  26
  27static void do_spawn_thread(void);
  28
  29typedef struct ThreadPoolElement ThreadPoolElement;
  30
  31enum ThreadState {
  32    THREAD_QUEUED,
  33    THREAD_ACTIVE,
  34    THREAD_DONE,
  35    THREAD_CANCELED,
  36};
  37
  38struct ThreadPoolElement {
  39    BlockDriverAIOCB common;
  40    ThreadPoolFunc *func;
  41    void *arg;
  42
  43    /* Moving state out of THREAD_QUEUED is protected by lock.  After
  44     * that, only the worker thread can write to it.  Reads and writes
  45     * of state and ret are ordered with memory barriers.
  46     */
  47    enum ThreadState state;
  48    int ret;
  49
  50    /* Access to this list is protected by lock.  */
  51    QTAILQ_ENTRY(ThreadPoolElement) reqs;
  52
  53    /* Access to this list is protected by the global mutex.  */
  54    QLIST_ENTRY(ThreadPoolElement) all;
  55};
  56
  57static EventNotifier notifier;
  58static QemuMutex lock;
  59static QemuCond check_cancel;
  60static QemuSemaphore sem;
  61static int max_threads = 64;
  62static QEMUBH *new_thread_bh;
  63
  64/* The following variables are protected by the global mutex.  */
  65static QLIST_HEAD(, ThreadPoolElement) head;
  66
  67/* The following variables are protected by lock.  */
  68static QTAILQ_HEAD(, ThreadPoolElement) request_list;
  69static int cur_threads;
  70static int idle_threads;
  71static int new_threads;     /* backlog of threads we need to create */
  72static int pending_threads; /* threads created but not running yet */
  73static int pending_cancellations; /* whether we need a cond_broadcast */
  74
  75static void *worker_thread(void *unused)
  76{
  77    qemu_mutex_lock(&lock);
  78    pending_threads--;
  79    do_spawn_thread();
  80
  81    while (1) {
  82        ThreadPoolElement *req;
  83        int ret;
  84
  85        do {
  86            idle_threads++;
  87            qemu_mutex_unlock(&lock);
  88            ret = qemu_sem_timedwait(&sem, 10000);
  89            qemu_mutex_lock(&lock);
  90            idle_threads--;
  91        } while (ret == -1 && !QTAILQ_EMPTY(&request_list));
  92        if (ret == -1) {
  93            break;
  94        }
  95
  96        req = QTAILQ_FIRST(&request_list);
  97        QTAILQ_REMOVE(&request_list, req, reqs);
  98        req->state = THREAD_ACTIVE;
  99        qemu_mutex_unlock(&lock);
 100
 101        ret = req->func(req->arg);
 102
 103        req->ret = ret;
 104        /* Write ret before state.  */
 105        smp_wmb();
 106        req->state = THREAD_DONE;
 107
 108        qemu_mutex_lock(&lock);
 109        if (pending_cancellations) {
 110            qemu_cond_broadcast(&check_cancel);
 111        }
 112
 113        event_notifier_set(&notifier);
 114    }
 115
 116    cur_threads--;
 117    qemu_mutex_unlock(&lock);
 118    return NULL;
 119}
 120
 121static void do_spawn_thread(void)
 122{
 123    QemuThread t;
 124
 125    /* Runs with lock taken.  */
 126    if (!new_threads) {
 127        return;
 128    }
 129
 130    new_threads--;
 131    pending_threads++;
 132
 133    qemu_thread_create(&t, worker_thread, NULL, QEMU_THREAD_DETACHED);
 134}
 135
 136static void spawn_thread_bh_fn(void *opaque)
 137{
 138    qemu_mutex_lock(&lock);
 139    do_spawn_thread();
 140    qemu_mutex_unlock(&lock);
 141}
 142
 143static void spawn_thread(void)
 144{
 145    cur_threads++;
 146    new_threads++;
 147    /* If there are threads being created, they will spawn new workers, so
 148     * we don't spend time creating many threads in a loop holding a mutex or
 149     * starving the current vcpu.
 150     *
 151     * If there are no idle threads, ask the main thread to create one, so we
 152     * inherit the correct affinity instead of the vcpu affinity.
 153     */
 154    if (!pending_threads) {
 155        qemu_bh_schedule(new_thread_bh);
 156    }
 157}
 158
 159static void event_notifier_ready(EventNotifier *notifier)
 160{
 161    ThreadPoolElement *elem, *next;
 162
 163    event_notifier_test_and_clear(notifier);
 164restart:
 165    QLIST_FOREACH_SAFE(elem, &head, all, next) {
 166        if (elem->state != THREAD_CANCELED && elem->state != THREAD_DONE) {
 167            continue;
 168        }
 169        if (elem->state == THREAD_DONE) {
 170            trace_thread_pool_complete(elem, elem->common.opaque, elem->ret);
 171        }
 172        if (elem->state == THREAD_DONE && elem->common.cb) {
 173            QLIST_REMOVE(elem, all);
 174            /* Read state before ret.  */
 175            smp_rmb();
 176            elem->common.cb(elem->common.opaque, elem->ret);
 177            qemu_aio_release(elem);
 178            goto restart;
 179        } else {
 180            /* remove the request */
 181            QLIST_REMOVE(elem, all);
 182            qemu_aio_release(elem);
 183        }
 184    }
 185}
 186
 187static int thread_pool_active(EventNotifier *notifier)
 188{
 189    return !QLIST_EMPTY(&head);
 190}
 191
 192static void thread_pool_cancel(BlockDriverAIOCB *acb)
 193{
 194    ThreadPoolElement *elem = (ThreadPoolElement *)acb;
 195
 196    trace_thread_pool_cancel(elem, elem->common.opaque);
 197
 198    qemu_mutex_lock(&lock);
 199    if (elem->state == THREAD_QUEUED &&
 200        /* No thread has yet started working on elem. we can try to "steal"
 201         * the item from the worker if we can get a signal from the
 202         * semaphore.  Because this is non-blocking, we can do it with
 203         * the lock taken and ensure that elem will remain THREAD_QUEUED.
 204         */
 205        qemu_sem_timedwait(&sem, 0) == 0) {
 206        QTAILQ_REMOVE(&request_list, elem, reqs);
 207        elem->state = THREAD_CANCELED;
 208        event_notifier_set(&notifier);
 209    } else {
 210        pending_cancellations++;
 211        while (elem->state != THREAD_CANCELED && elem->state != THREAD_DONE) {
 212            qemu_cond_wait(&check_cancel, &lock);
 213        }
 214        pending_cancellations--;
 215    }
 216    qemu_mutex_unlock(&lock);
 217}
 218
 219static const AIOCBInfo thread_pool_aiocb_info = {
 220    .aiocb_size         = sizeof(ThreadPoolElement),
 221    .cancel             = thread_pool_cancel,
 222};
 223
 224BlockDriverAIOCB *thread_pool_submit_aio(ThreadPoolFunc *func, void *arg,
 225        BlockDriverCompletionFunc *cb, void *opaque)
 226{
 227    ThreadPoolElement *req;
 228
 229    req = qemu_aio_get(&thread_pool_aiocb_info, NULL, cb, opaque);
 230    req->func = func;
 231    req->arg = arg;
 232    req->state = THREAD_QUEUED;
 233
 234    QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&head, req, all);
 235
 236    trace_thread_pool_submit(req, arg);
 237
 238    qemu_mutex_lock(&lock);
 239    if (idle_threads == 0 && cur_threads < max_threads) {
 240        spawn_thread();
 241    }
 242    QTAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&request_list, req, reqs);
 243    qemu_mutex_unlock(&lock);
 244    qemu_sem_post(&sem);
 245    return &req->common;
 246}
 247
 248typedef struct ThreadPoolCo {
 249    Coroutine *co;
 250    int ret;
 251} ThreadPoolCo;
 252
 253static void thread_pool_co_cb(void *opaque, int ret)
 254{
 255    ThreadPoolCo *co = opaque;
 256
 257    co->ret = ret;
 258    qemu_coroutine_enter(co->co, NULL);
 259}
 260
 261int coroutine_fn thread_pool_submit_co(ThreadPoolFunc *func, void *arg)
 262{
 263    ThreadPoolCo tpc = { .co = qemu_coroutine_self(), .ret = -EINPROGRESS };
 264    assert(qemu_in_coroutine());
 265    thread_pool_submit_aio(func, arg, thread_pool_co_cb, &tpc);
 266    qemu_coroutine_yield();
 267    return tpc.ret;
 268}
 269
 270void thread_pool_submit(ThreadPoolFunc *func, void *arg)
 271{
 272    thread_pool_submit_aio(func, arg, NULL, NULL);
 273}
 274
 275static void thread_pool_init(void)
 276{
 277    QLIST_INIT(&head);
 278    event_notifier_init(&notifier, false);
 279    qemu_mutex_init(&lock);
 280    qemu_cond_init(&check_cancel);
 281    qemu_sem_init(&sem, 0);
 282    qemu_aio_set_event_notifier(&notifier, event_notifier_ready,
 283                                thread_pool_active);
 284
 285    QTAILQ_INIT(&request_list);
 286    new_thread_bh = qemu_bh_new(spawn_thread_bh_fn, NULL);
 287}
 288
 289block_init(thread_pool_init)
 290