<div dir="ltr">IMO we should start with proving a better version in the lldb codebase, and then work on pushing it upstream. I have found much more resistance getting changes in to llvm than lldb, and for good reason - more projects depend on llvm than lldb.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Zachary Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zturner@google.com" target="_blank">zturner@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would still very much prefer we see if there is a way we can adapt LLVM's ThreadPool class to be suitable for our needs. Unless some fundamental aspect of its design results in unacceptable performance for our needs, I think we should just use it and not re-invent another one. If there are improvements to be made, let's make them there instead of in LLDB so that other LLVM users can benefit.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:58 PM Scott Smith via lldb-dev <<a href="mailto:lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Pavel Labath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:labath@google.com" target="_blank">labath@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Besides, hardcoding the nesting logic into "add" is kinda wrong.<br>
Adding a task is not the problematic operation, waiting for the result<br>
of one is. Granted, generally these happen on the same thread, but<br>
they don't have to be -- you can write a continuation-style<br>
computation, where you do a bit of work, and then enqueue a task to do<br>
the rest. This would create an infinite pool depth here.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>True, but that doesn't seem to be the style of code here. If it were you wouldn't need multiple pools, since you'd just wait for the callback that your work was done.<br></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Btw, are we sure it's not possible to solve this with just one thread<br>
pool. What would happen if we changed the implementation of "wait" so<br>
that if the target task is not scheduled yet, we just go ahead an<br>
compute it on our thread? I haven't thought through all the details,<br>
but is sounds like this could actually give better performance in some<br>
scenarios...<br>
</blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My initial reaction was "that wouldn't work, what if you ran another posix dl load?" But then I suppose *it* would run more work, and eventually you'd run a leaf task and finish something.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You'd have to make sure your work could be run regardless of what mutexes the caller already had (since you may be running work for another subsystem), but that's probably not too onerous, esp given how many recursive mutexes lldb uses..<br></div></div></div></div><span class="">
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