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Rewrite libuv bindings for efficiency and ~fn() removal #10321

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The major impetus for this pull request was to remove all usage of ~fn() in librustuv. This construct is going away as a language feature, and additionally it imposes the requirement that all I/O operations have at least one allocation. This allocation has been seen to have a fairly high performance impact in profiles of I/O benchmarks.

I've migrated librustuv away from all usage of ~fn(), and at the same time it no longer allocates on every I/O operation anywhere. The scheduler is now much more tightly integrated with all of the libuv bindings and most of the uv callbacks are specialized functions for a certain procedure. This is a step backwards in terms of making librustuv usable anywhere else, but I think that the performance gains are a big win here.

In just a simple benchmark of reading/writing 4k of 0s at a time between a tcp client/server in separate processes on the same system, I have witnessed the throughput increase from ~750MB/s to ~1200MB/s with this change applied.

I'm still in the process of testing this change, although all the major bugs (to my knowledge) have been fleshed out and removed. There are still a few spurious segfaults, and that's what I'm currently investigating. In the meantime, I wanted to put this up for review to get some eyes on it other than mine. I'll update this once I've got all the tests passing reliably again.

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brson commented Nov 6, 2013

Stellar effort. 🌞

bors added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 8, 2013
The major impetus for this pull request was to remove all usage of `~fn()` in `librustuv`. This construct is going away as a language feature, and additionally it imposes the requirement that all I/O operations have at least one allocation. This allocation has been seen to have a fairly high performance impact in profiles of I/O benchmarks.

I've migrated `librustuv` away from all usage of `~fn()`, and at the same time it no longer allocates on every I/O operation anywhere. The scheduler is now much more tightly integrated with all of the libuv bindings and most of the uv callbacks are specialized functions for a certain procedure. This is a step backwards in terms of making `librustuv` usable anywhere else, but I think that the performance gains are a big win here.

In just a simple benchmark of reading/writing 4k of 0s at a time between a tcp client/server in separate processes on the same system, I have witnessed the throughput increase from ~750MB/s to ~1200MB/s with this change applied.

I'm still in the process of testing this change, although all the major bugs (to my knowledge) have been fleshed out and removed. There are still a few spurious segfaults, and that's what I'm currently investigating. In the meantime, I wanted to put this up for review to get some eyes on it other than mine. I'll update this once I've got all the tests passing reliably again.
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klutzy commented Nov 8, 2013

From auto-win-32-opt log:

src/win/fs.c:744:3: warning: passing argument 2 of 'swprintf' makes pointer from integer without a cast

This indicates swprintf signature does not match between libuv and mingw. (explanation here)

It turns out that the uv implementation would cause use-after-free if the idle
callback was used after the call to `close`, and additionally nothing would ever
really work that well if `start()` were called twice. To change this, the
`start` and `close` methods were removed in favor of specifying the callback at
creation, and allowing destruction to take care of closing the watcher.
In the ideal world, uv I/O could be canceled safely at any time. In reality,
however, we are unable to do this. Right now linked failure is fairly flaky as
implemented in the runtime, making it very difficult to test whether the linked
failure mechanisms inside of the uv bindings are ready for this kind of
interaction.

Right now, all constructors will execute in a task::unkillable block, and all
homing I/O operations will prevent linked failure in the duration of the homing
operation. What this means is that tasks which perform I/O are still susceptible
to linked failure, but the I/O operations themselves will never get interrupted.
Instead, the linked failure will be received at the edge of the I/O operation.
It appears that uv's support for interacting with a stdio stream as a tty when
it's actually a pipe is pretty problematic. To get around this, promote a check
to see if the stream is a tty to the top of the tty constructor, and bail out
quickly if it's not identified as a tty.

Closes rust-lang#10237
At this time, also point the libuv submodule to the official repo instead of my
own off to the side.

cc rust-lang#10246
Closes rust-lang#10329
When a channel is destroyed, it may attempt scheduler operations which could
move a task off of it's I/O scheduler. This is obviously a bad interaction, and
some finesse is required to make it work (making destructors run at the right
time).

Closes rust-lang#10375
bors added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2013
The major impetus for this pull request was to remove all usage of `~fn()` in `librustuv`. This construct is going away as a language feature, and additionally it imposes the requirement that all I/O operations have at least one allocation. This allocation has been seen to have a fairly high performance impact in profiles of I/O benchmarks.

I've migrated `librustuv` away from all usage of `~fn()`, and at the same time it no longer allocates on every I/O operation anywhere. The scheduler is now much more tightly integrated with all of the libuv bindings and most of the uv callbacks are specialized functions for a certain procedure. This is a step backwards in terms of making `librustuv` usable anywhere else, but I think that the performance gains are a big win here.

In just a simple benchmark of reading/writing 4k of 0s at a time between a tcp client/server in separate processes on the same system, I have witnessed the throughput increase from ~750MB/s to ~1200MB/s with this change applied.

I'm still in the process of testing this change, although all the major bugs (to my knowledge) have been fleshed out and removed. There are still a few spurious segfaults, and that's what I'm currently investigating. In the meantime, I wanted to put this up for review to get some eyes on it other than mine. I'll update this once I've got all the tests passing reliably again.
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@bors bors merged commit e38a89d into rust-lang:master Nov 10, 2013
@alexcrichton alexcrichton deleted the uv-rewrite branch November 10, 2013 21:55
Jarcho pushed a commit to Jarcho/rust that referenced this pull request Feb 26, 2023
Fix false positives for `extra_unused_type_parameters`

Don't lint external macros. Also, if the function body is empty, any type parameters with bounds on them are not linted. Note that only the body needs be empty - this rule still applies if the function takes any arguments.

fixes rust-lang#10318
fixes rust-lang#10319
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Jarcho pushed a commit to Jarcho/rust that referenced this pull request Feb 26, 2023
Fix more false positives for `extra_unused_type_parameters`

Builds on rust-lang#10321. All empty functions are no longer linted, instead of just those that have trait bounds on them. Also, if a trait bound contains a non-public trait (un-exported, but still potentially reachable), then the corresponding type parameter isn't linted.

Finally, added support for the `avoid_breaking_exported_api` config option.

r? `@flip1995`
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