Instead of on read. Once it's in the inline cache we never have to make
one again. We want to eventually put the value into the cache, and the
best opportunity to do that is when you write the value.
This change implements a cache for class variables. Previously there was
no cache for cvars. Cvar access is slow due to needing to travel all the
way up th ancestor tree before returning the cvar value. The deeper the
ancestor tree the slower cvar access will be.
The benefits of the cache are more visible with a higher number of
included modules due to the way Ruby looks up class variables. The
benchmark here includes 26 modules and shows with the cache, this branch
is 6.5x faster when accessing class variables.
```
compare-ruby: ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-03-15T06:22:34Z master 9e5105ca45) [x86_64-darwin19]
built-ruby: ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-03-15T12:12:44Z add-cache-for-clas.. c6be0093ae) [x86_64-darwin19]
| |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:--------|-----------:|---------:|
|vm_cvar | 5.681M| 36.980M|
| | -| 6.51x|
```
Benchmark.ips calling `ActiveRecord::Base.logger` from within a Rails
application. ActiveRecord::Base.logger has 71 ancestors. The more
ancestors a tree has, the more clear the speed increase. IE if Base had
only one ancestor we'd see no improvement. This benchmark is run on a
vanilla Rails application.
Benchmark code:
```ruby
require "benchmark/ips"
require_relative "config/environment"
Benchmark.ips do |x|
x.report "logger" do
ActiveRecord::Base.logger
end
end
```
Ruby 3.0 master / Rails 6.1:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
logger 155.251k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
```
Ruby 3.0 with cvar cache / Rails 6.1:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
logger 1.546M i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
logger 14.857M (± 4.8%) i/s - 74.198M in 5.006202s
```
Lastly we ran a benchmark to demonstate the difference between master
and our cache when the number of modules increases. This benchmark
measures 1 ancestor, 30 ancestors, and 100 ancestors.
Ruby 3.0 master:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
1 module 1.231M i/100ms
30 modules 432.020k i/100ms
100 modules 145.399k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
1 module 12.210M (± 2.1%) i/s - 61.553M in 5.043400s
30 modules 4.354M (± 2.7%) i/s - 22.033M in 5.063839s
100 modules 1.434M (± 2.9%) i/s - 7.270M in 5.072531s
Comparison:
1 module: 12209958.3 i/s
30 modules: 4354217.8 i/s - 2.80x (± 0.00) slower
100 modules: 1434447.3 i/s - 8.51x (± 0.00) slower
```
Ruby 3.0 with cvar cache:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
1 module 1.641M i/100ms
30 modules 1.655M i/100ms
100 modules 1.620M i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
1 module 16.279M (± 3.8%) i/s - 82.038M in 5.046923s
30 modules 15.891M (± 3.9%) i/s - 79.459M in 5.007958s
100 modules 16.087M (± 3.6%) i/s - 81.005M in 5.041931s
Comparison:
1 module: 16279458.0 i/s
100 modules: 16087484.6 i/s - same-ish: difference falls within error
30 modules: 15891406.2 i/s - same-ish: difference falls within error
```
Co-authored-by: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
In every caller of `rb_class_ivar_set` it checks for the `RCLASS_IV_TBL`
and then creates it if it doesn't exist. Instead of repeating this in
every caller, this can be done once in `rb_class_ivar_set`.
iff means if and only if, but readers without that knowledge might
assume this to be a spelling mistake. To me, this seems like
exclusionary language that is unnecessary. Simply using "if and only if"
instead should suffice.
Ractor has several restrictions to keep each ractor being isolated
and some operation such as `CONST="foo"` in non-main ractor raises
an exception. This kind of operation raises an error but there is
confusion (some code raises RuntimeError and some code raises
NameError).
To make clear we introduce Ractor::IsolationError which is raised
when the isolation between ractors is violated.
Also document that both :deprecated and :experimental are supported
:category option values.
The locations where warnings were marked as deprecation warnings
was previously reviewed by shyouhei.
Comment a couple locations where deprecation warnings should probably
be used but are not currently used because deprecation warning
enablement has not occurred at the time they are called
(RUBY_FREE_MIN, RUBY_HEAP_MIN_SLOTS, -K).
Add assert_deprecated_warn to test assertions. Use this to simplify
some tests, and fix failing tests after marking some warnings with
deprecated category.
This speeds up all instance variable access, even when not in
verbose mode. Uninitialized instance variable warnings were
rarely helpful, and resulted in slower code if you wanted to
avoid warnings when run in verbose mode.
Implements [Feature #17055]
To make some kind of Ractor related extensions, some functions
should be exposed.
* include/ruby/thread_native.h
* rb_native_mutex_*
* rb_native_cond_*
* include/ruby/ractor.h
* RB_OBJ_SHAREABLE_P(obj)
* rb_ractor_shareable_p(obj)
* rb_ractor_std*()
* rb_cRactor
and rm ractor_pub.h
and rename srcdir/ractor.h to srcdir/ractor_core.h
(to avoid conflict with include/ruby/ractor.h)
When the inline cache is written, the iv table will contain an entry for
the instance variable. If we get an inline cache hit, then we know the
iv table must contain a value for the index written to the inline cache.
If the index in the inline cache is larger than the list on the object,
but *smaller* than the iv index table on the class, then we can just
eagerly allocate the iv list to be the same size as the iv index table.
This avoids duplicate work of checking frozen as well as looking up the
index for the particular instance variable name.
Since T_OBJECT objects come to life as embedded objects, that means that
ROBJECT_NUMIV will always return a _minimum_ of ROBJECT_EMBED_LEN_MAX.
If ivup.index is *greater* than ROBJECT_NUMIV, then we know that the
object *must not* be an embedded object. Thus we can skip the
ROBJECT_EMBED_LEN_MAX check as well as initializing internals of
embedded objects.
Accessing a shareable object is prohibitted because it can cause
race condition, but if the shareable object is frozen, there is no
problem to access ivars.
iv_index_tbl manages instance variable indexes (ID -> index).
This data structure should be synchronized with other ractors
so introduce some VM locks.
This patch also introduced atomic ivar cache used by
set/getinlinecache instructions. To make updating ivar cache (IVC),
we changed iv_index_tbl data structure to manage (ID -> entry)
and an entry points serial and index. IVC points to this entry so
that cache update becomes atomically.
generic_ivtbl is a process global table to maintain instance variables
for non T_OBJECT/T_CLASS/... objects. So we need to protect them
for multi-Ractor exection.
Hint: we can make them Ractor local for unshareable objects, but
now it is premature optimization.
This commit introduces Ractor mechanism to run Ruby program in
parallel. See doc/ractor.md for more details about Ractor.
See ticket [Feature #17100] to see the implementation details
and discussions.
[Feature #17100]
This commit does not complete the implementation. You can find
many bugs on using Ractor. Also the specification will be changed
so that this feature is experimental. You will see a warning when
you make the first Ractor with `Ractor.new`.
I hope this feature can help programmers from thread-safety issues.
Follow up for 5e16857315. Calling a method
in the middle of const_set adds a way that it would fail. It also makes
it inconsistent with declaring a constant using `::`, which doesn't call
`to_s`.
Former ROBJECT_IV_INDEX_TBL macro included RCLASS_IV_INDEX_TBL, which is
not disclosed to extension libraies. The macro was kind of broken. Why
not just deprecate it, and convert the internal use into an inline
function.
Use ID instead of GENTRY for gvars.
Global variables are compiled into GENTRY (a pointer to struct
rb_global_entry). This patch replace this GENTRY to ID and
make the code simple.
We need to search GENTRY from ID every time (st_lookup), so
additional overhead will be introduced.
However, the performance of accessing global variables is not
important now a day and this simplicity helps Ractor development.
Not every compilers understand that rb_raise does not return. When a
function does not end with a return statement, such compilers can issue
warnings. We would better tell them about reachabilities.
900e83b501 changed from a warning
to an error in this case, but the warning was only issued in
verbose mode, and therefore the error was only raised in verbose
mode. That was not intentional, verbose mode should only change
whether warnings are emitted, not other behavior. This issues
the RuntimeError in all cases.
This change broke a couple tests, as the tests actually issued
the warning and therefore now raise an error. This wasn't caught
earlier as test_variable suppressed the warning in this case,
effectively setting $VERBOSE = false around the code that warned.
basictest isn't run in verbose mode and therefore didn't expose
the issue previously. Fix these tests.
Fixes [Bug #14541]
Setting class varibles goes through the ancestor list which can
contain iclasses. Iclasses share a lot of information with the
module they are made from, but not the frozen status.
Check the frozen status of the module instead of the iclass.
This patch allows global variables that have been assigned in Ruby to
move. I added a new function for the GC to call that will update
global references and introduced a new callback in the global variable
struct for updating references.
Only pure Ruby global variables are supported right now, other
references will be pinned.
This changes the following warnings:
* warning: class variable access from toplevel
* warning: class variable @foo of D is overtaken by C
into RuntimeErrors. Handle defined?(@@foo) at toplevel
by returning nil instead of raising an exception (the previous
behavior warned before returning nil when defined? was used).
Refactor the specs to avoid the warnings even in older versions.
The specs were checking for the warnings, but the purpose of
the related specs as evidenced from their description is to
test for behavior, not for warnings.
Fixes [Bug #14541]
Since 9d9aea7fe5, generic instance
variables need `iv_index_tbl` in the object's class. As hidden
objects, however, have no class, access to the variables causes a
segfault. Get rid of that segfault by raising an exception, for
the time being.
I think global references should either be 0 or valid heap pointers.
`rb_gc_mark_maybe` checks to see if the pointer is a valid heap pointer,
but I believe we already know they are valid addresses