render: keep lock while pushing dirty rows to worker queue

Instead of locking the queue for each dirty row we append, and
signaling a condition variable, just keep the lock while going through
the visible rows.

Release the lock once done.

Since we take the lock *before* posting the 'start' semaphore, all
workers will be waiting for the lock to be released.

Then, one at a time they'll get the lock and pick a row to
render. The queue will never get empty - when all rows have been
rendered, each worker will pick a 'frame done' "job" from the queue,
and break the rendering loop.
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Daniel Eklöf 2020-07-13 13:27:23 +02:00
parent 669d36afa8
commit 09bdf20aa0
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3 changed files with 3 additions and 19 deletions

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@ -858,7 +858,6 @@ render_worker_thread(void *_ctx)
sem_t *start = &term->render.workers.start;
sem_t *done = &term->render.workers.done;
mtx_t *lock = &term->render.workers.lock;
cnd_t *cond = &term->render.workers.cond;
while (true) {
sem_wait(start);
@ -868,8 +867,7 @@ render_worker_thread(void *_ctx)
while (!frame_done) {
mtx_lock(lock);
while (tll_length(term->render.workers.queue) == 0)
cnd_wait(cond, lock);
assert(tll_length(term->render.workers.queue) > 0);
int row_no = tll_pop_front(term->render.workers.queue);
mtx_unlock(lock);
@ -1416,6 +1414,8 @@ grid_render(struct terminal *term)
if (term->render.workers.count > 0) {
mtx_lock(&term->render.workers.lock);
term->render.workers.buf = buf;
for (size_t i = 0; i < term->render.workers.count; i++)
sem_post(&term->render.workers.start);
@ -1428,11 +1428,7 @@ grid_render(struct terminal *term)
if (!row->dirty)
continue;
mtx_lock(&term->render.workers.lock);
tll_push_back(term->render.workers.queue, r);
cnd_signal(&term->render.workers.cond);
mtx_unlock(&term->render.workers.lock);
row->dirty = false;
wl_surface_damage_buffer(
@ -1441,10 +1437,8 @@ grid_render(struct terminal *term)
term->width - term->margins.left - term->margins.right, term->cell_height);
}
mtx_lock(&term->render.workers.lock);
for (size_t i = 0; i < term->render.workers.count; i++)
tll_push_back(term->render.workers.queue, -1);
cnd_broadcast(&term->render.workers.cond);
mtx_unlock(&term->render.workers.lock);
for (size_t i = 0; i < term->render.workers.count; i++)

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@ -507,13 +507,6 @@ initialize_render_workers(struct terminal *term)
goto err_sem_destroy;
}
if ((err = cnd_init(&term->render.workers.cond)) != thrd_success) {
LOG_ERR(
"failed to instantiate render worker condition variable: %s (%d)",
thrd_err_as_string(err), err);
goto err_sem_destroy;
}
term->render.workers.threads = calloc(
term->render.workers.count, sizeof(term->render.workers.threads[0]));
@ -1165,7 +1158,6 @@ term_destroy(struct terminal *term)
sem_post(&term->render.workers.start);
tll_push_back(term->render.workers.queue, -2);
}
cnd_broadcast(&term->render.workers.cond);
}
mtx_unlock(&term->render.workers.lock);
@ -1198,7 +1190,6 @@ term_destroy(struct terminal *term)
}
}
free(term->render.workers.threads);
cnd_destroy(&term->render.workers.cond);
mtx_destroy(&term->render.workers.lock);
sem_destroy(&term->render.workers.start);
sem_destroy(&term->render.workers.done);

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@ -369,7 +369,6 @@ struct terminal {
size_t count;
sem_t start;
sem_t done;
cnd_t cond;
mtx_t lock;
tll(int) queue;
thrd_t *threads;