we do not check any of success, failure or progress, so we must check
if they are valid before calling.
This fixed a bug in efl_net_dialer_tcp where it uses a null failure
cb and was SEGV.
Efl_Future actually work with weak reference. So you do not need to
set things to NULL, but you actually need to register the memory location
of the future with efl_future_use.
This would have forced who ever used future,none signal to manually
filter out event triggered by all the future beeing fullfiled and
disconnecting once they receive a value or are marked failed.
As discussed in the mailing list, many people will use worker threads
to execute blocking syscalls and mandating ecore_thread_check() for
voluntary preemption reduces the ecore_thread usefulness a lot.
A clear example is ecore_con usage of connect() and getaddrinfo() in
threads. If the connect timeout expires, the thread will be cancelled,
but it was blocked on syscalls and they will hang around for long
time. If the application exits, ecore will print an error saying it
can SEGV.
Then enable access to pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE)
via eina_thread_cancellable_set(EINA_TRUE), to pthread_cancel() via
eina_thread_cancel(), to pthread_cleanup_push()/pthread_cleanup_pop()
via EINA_THREAD_CLEANUP_PUSH()/EINA_THREAD_CLEANUP_POP() and so on.
Ecore threads will enforce non-cancellable threads on its own code,
but the user may decide to enable that and allow cancellation, that's
not an issue since ecore_thread now plays well and use cleanup
functions.
Ecore con connect/resolve make use of that and enable cancellable
state, efl_net_dialer_tcp benefits a lot from that.
A good comparison of the benefit is to run:
./src/examples/ecore/efl_io_copier_example tcp://google.com:1234 :stdout:
before and after. It will timeout after 30s and with this patch the
thread is gone, no ecore error is printed about possible SEGV.
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?)
It has been discussed on the ML (thread: "[RFC] rename efl_self") and
IRC, and has been decided we should rename it to this in order to avoid
confusion with the already established meaning of self which is very
similar to what we were using it for, but didn't have complete overlap.
Kudos to Marcel Hollerbach for initiating the discussion and
fighting for it until he convinced a significant mass. :)
This commit breaks API, and depending on compiler potentially ABI.
@feature
while in a job we do not have the safety of eo holding us alive and
when we call back the user, he may have deleted the object, releasing
both the object and its private data that we're using.
then keep an extra reference, call the methods and release it.
Efl.Object.event_callback_call no longer calls legacy smart callbacks;
calling only event callbacks registered with the given event description
pointer.
Create the method Efl.Object.event_callback_legacy_call to inherit the old
behavior from Efl.Object.event_callback_call, calling both Efl.Object events
and legacy smart callbacks.
Update all other files accordingly in order to still supply legacy
callbacks while they are necessary.
These interfaces allows generic operations on objects that can store
or provide data, such as a file or a buffer.
With well defined interfaces and events we can create code such as
Efl.Io.Copier, that will link a source with a destination and
progressively copy data as they appear.
it was silently ignoring the parent, which led me to hours trying to
investigate why my code wasn't working just to realize my parent
wasn't being assigned and refcounts were screwed.
This places the following behind beta:
- efl_quicklaunch_fallback
- efl_build_version_set
I don't think EFL_MAIN would have worked without BETA API support,
so no need to expose those for now.
@fix
in theory another libc call could overwrite errno between select
exiting and errno being used for errors. be paranoid. i know of no
real bug that this causes though.
Jean-Philippe Andre
Cedric BAIL
Tom Hacohen
Jaehwan Kim
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
Carsten Haitzler
Vitor Sousa
Ivan Furs