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tokio:
merge rt-core and rt-util as rt
rename rt-threaded to rt-multi-thread
tokio-util:
rename rt-core to rt
Closes #2942
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Co-authored-by: Alice Ryhl <alice@ryhl.io>
Co-authored-by: Carl Lerche <me@carllerche.com>
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This patch updates the coop logic so that the budget is only decremented
if a future makes progress (that is, if it returns `Ready`). This is
realized by restoring the budget to its former value after
`poll_proceed` _unless_ the caller indicates that it made progress.
The thinking here is that we always want tasks to make progress when we
poll them. With the way things were, if a task polled 128 resources that
could make no progress, and just returned `Pending`, then a 129th
resource that _could_ make progress would not be polled. Worse yet, this
could manifest as a deadlock, if the first 128 resources were all
_waiting_ for the 129th resource, since it would _never_ be polled.
The downside of this change is that `Pending` resources now do not take
up any part of the budget, even though they _do_ take up time on the
executor. If a task is particularly aggressive (or unoptimized), and
polls a large number of resources that cannot make progress whenever it
is polled, then coop will allow it to run potentially much longer before
yielding than it could before. The impact of this should be relatively
contained though, because tasks that behaved in this way in the past
probably ignored `Pending` _anyway_, so whether a resource returned
`Pending` due to coop or due to lack of progress may not make a
difference to it.
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In some cases, when a call to `block_in_place` completes, the runtime is
reinstated on the thread. In this case, the task budget must also be set
in order to avoid starving other tasks on the worker.
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Simplifies coop implementation. Prunes unused code, create a `Budget`
type to track the current budget.
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## Motivation
Currently, an issue exists where a `LocalSet` has a single cooperative
task budget that's shared across all futures spawned on the `LocalSet`
_and_ by any future passed to `LocalSet::run_until` or
`LocalSet::block_on`. Because these methods will poll the `run_until`
future before polling spawned tasks, it is possible for that task to
_always_ deterministically starve the entire `LocalSet` so that no local
tasks can proceed. When the completion of that future _itself_ depends
on other tasks on the `LocalSet`, this will then result in a deadlock,
as in issue #2460.
A detailed description of why this is the case, taken from [this
comment][1]:
`LocalSet` wraps each time a local task is run in `budget`:
https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/947045b9445f15fb9314ba0892efa2251076ae73/tokio/src/task/local.rs#L406
This is identical to what tokio's other schedulers do when running
tasks, and in theory should give each task its own budget every time
it's polled.
_However_, `LocalSet` is different from other schedulers. Unlike the
runtime schedulers, a `LocalSet` is itself a future that's run on
another scheduler, in `block_on`. `block_on` _also_ sets a budget:
https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/947045b9445f15fb9314ba0892efa2251076ae73/tokio/src/runtime/basic_scheduler.rs#L131
The docs for `budget` state that:
https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/947045b9445f15fb9314ba0892efa2251076ae73/tokio/src/coop.rs#L73
This means that inside of a `LocalSet`, the calls to `budget` are
no-ops. Instead, each future polled by the `LocalSet` is subtracting
from a single global budget.
`LocalSet`'s `RunUntil` future polls the provided future before polling
any other tasks spawned on the local set:
https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/947045b9445f15fb9314ba0892efa2251076ae73/tokio/src/task/local.rs#L525-L535
In this case, the provided future is `JoinAll`. Unfortunately, every
time a `JoinAll` is polled, it polls _every_ joined future that has not
yet completed. When the number of futures in the `JoinAll` is >= 128,
this means that the `JoinAll` immediately exhausts the task budget. This
would, in theory, be a _good_ thing --- if the `JoinAll` had a huge
number of `JoinHandle`s in it and none of them are ready, it would limit
the time we spend polling those join handles.
However, because the `LocalSet` _actually_ has a single shared task
budget, this means polling the `JoinAll` _always_ exhausts the entire
budget. There is now no budget remaining to poll any other tasks spawned
on the `LocalSet`, and they are never able to complete.
[1]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/issues/2460#issuecomment-621403122
## Solution
This branch solves this issue by resetting the task budget when polling
a `LocalSet`. I've added a new function to `coop` for resetting the task
budget to `UNCONSTRAINED` for the duration of a closure, and thus
allowing the `budget` calls in `LocalSet` to _actually_ create a new
budget for each spawned local task. Additionally, I've changed
`LocalSet` to _also_ ensure that a separate task budget is applied to
any future passed to `block_on`/`run_until`.
Additionally, I've added a test reproducing the issue described in
#2460. This test fails prior to this change, and passes after it.
Fixes #2460
Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
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Included changes
- all simple references like `<type>.<name>.html` for these types
- enum
- fn
- struct
- trait
- type
- simple references for methods, like struct.DelayQueue.html#method.poll
Refs: #1473
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The work-stealing scheduler includes an optimization where each worker
includes a single slot to store the **last** scheduled task. Tasks in
scheduler's LIFO slot are executed next. This speeds up and reduces
latency with message passing patterns.
Previously, this optimization was susceptible to starving other tasks in
certain cases. If two tasks ping-ping between each other without ever
yielding, the worker would never execute other tasks.
An early PR (#2160) introduced a form of pre-emption. Each task is
allocated a per-poll operation budget. Tokio resources will return ready
until the budget is depleted, at which point, Tokio resources will
always return `Pending`.
This patch leverages the operation budget to limit the LIFO scheduler
optimization. When executing tasks from the LIFO slot, the budget is
**not** reset. Once the budget goes to zero, the task in the LIFO slot
is pushed to the back of the queue.
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## Motivation
Many of Tokio's synchronization primitives (`RwLock`, `Mutex`,
`Semaphore`, and the bounded MPSC channel) are based on the internal
semaphore implementation, called `semaphore_ll`. This semaphore type
provides a lower-level internal API for the semaphore implementation
than the public `Semaphore` type, and supports "batch" operations, where
waiters may acquire more than one permit at a time, and batches of
permits may be released back to the semaphore.
Currently, `semaphore_ll` uses an atomic singly-linked list for the
waiter queue. The linked list implementation is specific to the
semaphore. This implementation therefore requires a heap allocation for
every waiter in the queue. These allocations are owned by the semaphore,
rather than by the task awaiting permits from the semaphore. Critically,
they are only _deallocated_ when permits are released back to the
semaphore, at which point it dequeues as many waiters from the front of
the queue as can be satisfied with the released permits. If a task
attempts to acquire permits from the semaphore and is cancelled (such as
by timing out), their waiter nodes remain in the list until they are
dequeued while releasing permits. In cases where large numbers of tasks
are cancelled while waiting for permits, this results in extremely high
memory use for the semaphore (see #2237).
## Solution
@Matthias247 has proposed that Tokio adopt the approach used in his
`futures-intrusive` crate: using an _intrusive_ linked list to store the
wakers of tasks waiting on a synchronization primitive. In an intrusive
list, each list node is stored as part of the entry that node
represents, rather than in a heap allocation that owns the entry.
Because futures must be pinned in order to be polled, the necessary
invariant of such a list --- that entries may not move while in the list
--- may be upheld by making the waiter node `!Unpin`. In this approach,
the waiter node can be stored inline in the future, rather than
requiring separate heap allocation, and cancelled futures may remove
their nodes from the list.
This branch adds a new semaphore implementation that uses the intrusive
list added to Tokio in #2210. The implementation is essentially a hybrid
of the old `semaphore_ll` and the semaphore used in `futures-intrusive`:
while a `Mutex` around the wait list is necessary, since the intrusive
list is not thread-safe, the permit state is stored outside of the mutex
and updated atomically.
The mutex is acquired only when accessing the wait list — if a task
can acquire sufficient permits without waiting, it does not need to
acquire the lock. When releasing permits, we iterate over the wait
list from the end of the queue until we run out of permits to release,
and split off all the nodes that received enough permits to wake up
into a separate list. Then, we can drain the new list and notify those
wakers *after* releasing the lock. Because the split operation only
modifies the pointers on the head node of the split-off list and the
new tail node of the old list, it is O(1) and does not require an
allocation to return a variable length number of waiters to notify.
Because of the intrusive list invariants, the API provided by the new
`batch_semaphore` is somewhat different than that of `semaphore_ll`. In
particular, the `Permit` type has been removed. This type was primarily
intended allow the reuse of a wait list node allocated on the heap.
Since the intrusive list means we can avoid heap-allocating waiters,
this is no longer necessary. Instead, acquiring permits is done by
polling an `Acquire` future returned by the `Semaphore` type. The use of
a future here ensures that the waiter node is always pinned while
waiting to acquire permits, and that a reference to the semaphore is
available to remove the waiter if the future is cancelled.
Unfortunately, the current implementation of the bounded MPSC requires a
`poll_acquire` operation, and has methods that call it while outside of
a pinned context. Therefore, I've left the old `semaphore_ll`
implementation in place to be used by the bounded MPSC, and updated the
`Mutex`, `RwLock`, and `Semaphore` APIs to use the new implementation.
Hopefully, a subsequent change can update the bounded MPSC to use the
new semaphore as well.
Fixes #2237
Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
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A single call to `poll` on a top-level task may potentially do a lot of
work before it returns `Poll::Pending`. If a task runs for a long period
of time without yielding back to the executor, it can starve other tasks
waiting on that executor to execute them, or drive underlying resources.
See for example rust-lang/futures-rs#2047, rust-lang/futures-rs#1957,
and rust-lang/futures-rs#869. Since Rust does not have a runtime, it is
difficult to forcibly preempt a long-running task.
Consider a future like this one:
```rust
use tokio::stream::StreamExt;
async fn drop_all<I: Stream>(input: I) {
while let Some(_) = input.next().await {}
}
```
It may look harmless, but consider what happens under heavy load if the
input stream is _always_ ready. If we spawn `drop_all`, the task will
never yield, and will starve other tasks and resources on the same
executor.
This patch adds a `coop` module that provides an opt-in mechanism for
futures to cooperate with the executor to avoid starvation. This
alleviates the problem above:
```
use tokio::stream::StreamExt;
async fn drop_all<I: Stream>(input: I) {
while let Some(_) = input.next().await {
tokio::coop::proceed().await;
}
}
```
The call to [`proceed`] will coordinate with the executor to make sure
that every so often control is yielded back to the executor so it can
run other tasks.
The implementation uses a thread-local counter that simply counts how
many "cooperation points" we have passed since the task was first
polled. Once the "budget" has been spent, any subsequent points will
return `Poll::Pending`, eventually making the top-level task yield. When
it finally does yield, the executor resets the budget before
running the next task.
The budget per task poll is currently hard-coded to 128. Eventually, we
may want to make it dynamic as more cooperation points are added. The
number 128 was chosen more or less arbitrarily to balance the cost of
yielding unnecessarily against the time an executor may be "held up".
At the moment, all the tokio leaf futures ("resources") call into coop,
but external futures have no way of doing so. We probably want to
continue limiting coop points to leaf futures in the future, but may
want to also enable third-party leaf futures to cooperate to benefit the
ecosystem as a whole. This is reflected in the methods marked as `pub`
in `mod coop` (even though the module is only `pub(crate)`). We will
likely also eventually want to expose `coop::limit`, which enables
sub-executors and manual `impl Future` blocks to avoid one sub-task
spending all of their poll budget.
Benchmarks (see tokio-rs/tokio#2160) suggest that the overhead of `coop`
is marginal.
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