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ref: 318a1ff5ecddd6d60fcf87147f1ff741d39b3dc4
parent: 2b1ec65b5d17a833a9f2330afba38ca2ad71c03d
author: Jim Bankoski <[email protected]>
date: Fri Dec 16 03:50:55 EST 2016

vp8 : use threading mutex's for tsan only.

To avoid decode performance hit of 2% when running on hyperthreaded
cores.

This patch only uses the mutex's when we are running tsan.

This is safe because 32 bit operations like read and store are atomic
on all the platforms we care about. Tsan warns about race situations,
but in this case either situation ( read occurs before write or write
before read) the worst case is that we go around one extra time in the
loop.  So the ordering doesn't really matter.

That said a few other things have been tried :

for instance as per here:
webrtc/base/atomicops.h#52

In this patch they use:
__atomic_load_n(i, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
__atomic_store_n(i, value, __ATOMIC_RELEASE);

This code works on gcc, clang ( replacing protected write and read), and
avoids tsan errors. Incurring no penalty in performance.  In C11 its
replaced by straight atomic operands.

However there is no equivalent in the visual studio's we support as
int32 on all windows platforms is already atomic.  To avoid tsan like
warnings on windows we'd need to use interlocked exchange and the
end result doesn't gain us any thing.

Change-Id: I2066e3c7f42641ebb23d53feb1f16f23f85bcf59

--- a/vp8/common/threading.h

+++ b/vp8/common/threading.h

@@ -191,29 +191,24 @@

 #define x86_pause_hint()

 #endif

+#if defined(__has_feature)

+#if __has_feature(thread_sanitizer)

+#define USE_MUTEX_LOCK 1

+#endif

+#endif

+

 #include "vpx_util/vpx_thread.h"

-static INLINE void mutex_lock(pthread_mutex_t *const mutex) {

-  const int kMaxTryLocks = 4000;

-  int locked = 0;

-  int i;

-

-  for (i = 0; i < kMaxTryLocks; ++i) {

-    if (!pthread_mutex_trylock(mutex)) {

-      locked = 1;

-      break;

-    }

-  }

-

-  if (!locked) pthread_mutex_lock(mutex);

-}

-

 static INLINE int protected_read(pthread_mutex_t *const mutex, const int *p) {

+  (void)mutex;

+#if defined(USE_MUTEX_LOCK)

   int ret;

-  mutex_lock(mutex);

+  pthread_mutex_lock(mutex);

   ret = *p;

   pthread_mutex_unlock(mutex);

   return ret;

+#endif

+  return *p;

 }

 static INLINE void sync_read(pthread_mutex_t *const mutex, int mb_col,

@@ -226,11 +221,17 @@

 }

 static INLINE void protected_write(pthread_mutex_t *mutex, int *p, int v) {

-  mutex_lock(mutex);

+  (void)mutex;

+#if defined(USE_MUTEX_LOCK)

+  pthread_mutex_lock(mutex);

   *p = v;

   pthread_mutex_unlock(mutex);

+  return;

+#endif

+  *p = v;

 }

+#undef USE_MUTEX_LOCK

 #endif /* CONFIG_OS_SUPPORT && CONFIG_MULTITHREAD */

 #ifdef __cplusplus