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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] Lock the demangled hash table
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 21:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s0fehak.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25f1c05d-c2ef-d229-1eef-1029186070b3@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's	message of "Thu, 30 May 2019 13:58:49 +0100")

>> This introduces a lock that is used when modifying the demangled hash
>> table.

Pedro> There's only a single mutex, and the comment says _THE_ demangled
Pedro> hash table, but AFAICS, each per_bfd has its own table, right?

Yes, that's correct.  I'll fix the comment.

Pedro> A single lock for every table compared to a lock per table might be
Pedro> a good approach, but I'd welcome extended comments to explain
Pedro> that design choice.

I didn't want to put a mutex into the per-bfd object, mostly because it
uses space for the entire lifetime of that, while the mutex is only used
while demangling minsym names; and that can (currently) only be done for
one objfile at a time.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-30 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-29 21:29 [PATCH v3 0/8] Demangle minimal symbol names in worker threads Tom Tromey
2019-05-29 21:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] Defer minimal symbol name-setting Tom Tromey
2019-05-29 21:29 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] Add configure check for std::thread Tom Tromey
2019-05-30 11:34   ` Pedro Alves
2019-05-29 21:29 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] Remove static buffer from ada_decode Tom Tromey
2019-05-30  0:08   ` Pedro Alves
2019-05-29 21:29 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] Lock the demangled hash table Tom Tromey
2019-05-30 12:58   ` Pedro Alves
2019-05-30 14:03     ` Pedro Alves
2019-05-30 21:58     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2019-05-29 21:29 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] Add maint set/show max-worker-threads Tom Tromey
2019-05-30  2:36   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-30 14:20   ` Pedro Alves
2019-05-29 21:29 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] Introduce run_on_main_thread Tom Tromey
2019-05-30 13:12   ` Pedro Alves
2019-05-30 13:20     ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-30 13:57       ` Pedro Alves
2019-05-30 14:01       ` Pedro Alves
2019-05-29 21:29 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] Demangle minsyms in parallel Tom Tromey
2019-05-30 14:19   ` Pedro Alves
2019-05-30 22:22     ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-29 22:03 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] Introduce thread-safe way to handle SIGSEGV Tom Tromey
2019-05-30 13:40   ` Pedro Alves
2019-06-09 15:43     ` Tom Tromey

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