Remove contention from HandleHistogramProfileRand (#81932)

dotnet · Feb 10, 2023 · 0d95bf1 · 0d95bf1
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Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/src/coreclr/vm/jithelpers.cpp b/src/coreclr/vm/jithelpers.cpp
@@ -5407,12 +5407,12 @@ void JIT_PartialCompilationPatchpoint(int* counter, int ilOffset)
 
 static unsigned HandleHistogramProfileRand()
 {
-    // generate a random number (xorshift32)
+    // Generate a random number (xorshift32)
     //
-    // intentionally simple so we can have multithreaded
-    // access w/o tearing state.
+    // Intentionally simple for faster random. It's stored in TLS to avoid
+    // multithread contention.
     //
-    static volatile unsigned s_rng = 100;
+    static thread_local unsigned s_rng = 100;
 
     unsigned x = s_rng;
     x ^= x << 13;