This moved all the eoid tables, eoid lookup caches, generation count
information ad eo_isa cache into a TLS segment of memory that is
thread private. There is also a shared domain for EO objects that all
threads can access, but it has an added cost of a lock. This means
objects accessed outside the thread they were created in cannot be
accessed by another thread unless they are adopted in temporarily, or
create4d with the shared domain active at the time of creation. child
objects will use their parent object domain if created with a parent
object passed in. If you were accessing EO (EFL) objects across threads
before then this will actually now cause your code to fail as it was
invalid before to do this as no actual objects were threadsafe in EFL,
so this will force things to "fail early".
ecore_thread_main_loop_begin() and end() still work as this uses the
eo domain adoption features to temporarily adopt a domain during this
section and then return it when done.
This returns speed back to eo brining the overhead in my tests of
lookup for the elm genlist autobounce test in elementary from about
5-7% down to 2.5-2.6%. A steep drop.
This does not mean everything is perfect. Still to do are:
1. Tests in the test suite
2. Some API's to help for sending objects from thread to thread
3. Make the eo call cache TLS data to make it also safe
4. Look at other locks in eo and probably move them to TLS data
5. Make eo resolve and call wrappers that call the real method func do
recursive mutex wrapping of the given object IF it is a shared object
to provide threadsafety transparently for shared objects (but adding
some overhead as a result)
6. Test test est, and that is why this commit is going in now for wider
testing
7. Decide how to make this work with sending IPC (between threads)
8. Deciding what makes an object sendable (a sendable property in base?)
9. Deciding what makes an object shareable (a sharable property in base?)
The syntax is described in: https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/eo/
Summary:
eo_do(obj, a_set(1)) -> a_set(obj, 1)
eo_do_super(obj, CLASS, a_set(1)) -> a_set(eo_super(obj, CLASS), 1)
eo_do_*_ret() set of functions are no longer needed.
This is the first step, the next step would be to also fix up eo_add()
which currently still uses the old syntax and is not 100% portable.
@feature
In some cases, invalid object ids (e.g 0x1) would pass validation and
represent completely different objects (0x80...01). This happened because
we weren't properly checking a given object id is actually an object id.
@fix.
We check _current_table for NULL, and then populate it (it's a global)
through another function, but we don't really check it's not NULL before
using it, we just assume because of an indirect other variable.
This confused coveritiy, can confuse humans too, and in general risky
(if something changes).
CID 1039419
due to recent changes a lot of objects are now NULL (correctly) and eo
complains on access of them. it's simply too noisy adding too many
if's all through code, so let's just make eo be sensible here.
This patch sets the one before most significant bit on for classes. This
means that class ids are now very big, compared to the old ids which
were growing small integers (1, 2, 3...).
This makes accidental passing of integers (corrupted obj pointers) less
common.
@feature
this is the first step on the road to remove class specific EAPI from Eo.h
using this handle we will know if a Eo* is a class or an object pointer
Conflicts:
src/lib/eo/eo.c
Carsten Haitzler
Cedric BAIL
Jaehyun Cho
Tom Hacohen
Daniel Kolesa
Jean Guyomarc'h
Jérémy Zurcher
Cedric Bail