[libvirt] [PATCH 1/3] virthread: Introduce virRWLockInitPreferWriter

[Michal Privoznik]

We already have virRWLockInit. But this uses pthread defaults
which prefer reader to initialize the RW lock. This may lead to
writer starvation. Therefore we need to have the counterpart that
prefers writers. Now, according to the
pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np() man page setting
PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NP attribute is no-op. Therefore we
need to use PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_NP
attribute. So much for good enum value names.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 src/libvirt_private.syms |  1 +
 src/util/virthread.c     | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/util/virthread.h     |  1 +
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
index 187b12b32..a792e00c8 100644
--- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
+++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
@@ -2728,6 +2728,7 @@ virMutexUnlock;
 virOnce;
 virRWLockDestroy;
 virRWLockInit;
+virRWLockInitPreferWriter;
 virRWLockRead;
 virRWLockUnlock;
 virRWLockWrite;
diff --git a/src/util/virthread.c b/src/util/virthread.c
index 6c495158f..a8dd72f8b 100644
--- a/src/util/virthread.c
+++ b/src/util/virthread.c
@@ -95,6 +95,15 @@ void virMutexUnlock(virMutexPtr m)
 }
 
 
+/**
+ * virRWLockInit:
+ * @m: rwlock to init
+ *
+ * Initializes RW lock using pthread default attributes (which
+ * is PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_READER_NP).
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -1 otherwise.
+ */
 int virRWLockInit(virRWLockPtr m)
 {
     int ret;
@@ -106,6 +115,32 @@ int virRWLockInit(virRWLockPtr m)
     return 0;
 }
 
+
+/**
+ * virRWLockInitPreferWriter:
+ * @m: rwlock to init
+ *
+ * Initializes RW lock which prefers writers over readers.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -1 otherwise.
+ */
+int virRWLockInitPreferWriter(virRWLockPtr m)
+{
+    int ret;
+    pthread_rwlockattr_t attr;
+
+    pthread_rwlockattr_init(&attr);
+    pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np(&attr, PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_NP);
+    ret = pthread_rwlock_init(&m->lock, &attr);
+    pthread_rwlockattr_destroy(&attr);
+    if (ret != 0) {
+        errno = ret;
+        return -1;
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+
 void virRWLockDestroy(virRWLockPtr m)
 {
     pthread_rwlock_destroy(&m->lock);
diff --git a/src/util/virthread.h b/src/util/virthread.h
index e466d9bf0..18b785af2 100644
--- a/src/util/virthread.h
+++ b/src/util/virthread.h
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ void virMutexUnlock(virMutexPtr m);
 
 
 int virRWLockInit(virRWLockPtr m) ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK;
+int virRWLockInitPreferWriter(virRWLockPtr m) ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK;
 void virRWLockDestroy(virRWLockPtr m);
 
 void virRWLockRead(virRWLockPtr m);
-- 
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