[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D123226: [lldb] use one shared ThreadPool and task groups

[Greg Clayton via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

clayborg added inline comments.


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Comment at: lldb/source/Core/Debugger.cpp:1969
+llvm::ThreadPool &Debugger::GetThreadPool() {
+  static llvm::ThreadPool threadpool(llvm::optimal_concurrency());
+  return threadpool;
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aganea wrote:
> clayborg wrote:
> > aganea wrote:
> > > Ideally this should be explicitly created on the stack & passed along on the callstack or in a context, like MLIR does: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/mlir/include/mlir/IR/MLIRContext.h#L48
> > We need one instance of the thread pool so we can't create on the stack. 
> > 
> > Static is not great because of the C++ global destructor chain could try and use if "main" exits and we still have threads running. I would do something like the "g_debugger_list_ptr" where you create a static variable in Debugger.cpp:105 which is a pointer, and we initialize it inside of Debugger::Initialize() like we do for "g_debugger_list_ptr". Then the thread pool will not cause shutdown crashes when "main" exits before other threads.
> > 
> I meant having the `ThreadPool` in a context created by main() or the lib caller, before getting here in library/plugin code, and passed along. LLD does that too: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp#L94 - the statics in `Debugger.cpp` seems like a workaround for that. In any case, it's better than having the `static` here.
In LLDB, the lldb_private::Debugger has static functions that hand out things that are needed for the debugger to do its work, so I like the static function here. We don't allow any llvm or clang code to make it through our public API (in lldb::SB* classes), so we do need code inside the debugger to be able to access global resources and the debugger class is where this should live. 

We can also just have code like:
```
// NOTE: intentional leak to avoid issues with C++ destructor chain
static llvm::ThreadPool *g_thread_pool = nullptr;
static llvm::once_flag g_once_flag;
llvm::call_once(g_once_flag, []() {
  g_thread_pool = new llvm::ThreadPool(llvm::optimal_concurrency());
});
return *g_thread_pool;
```



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