rust-lightning/lightning/src/util/fairrwlock.rs
2023-01-07 00:52:30 +01:00

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Rust

use std::sync::{LockResult, RwLock, RwLockReadGuard, RwLockWriteGuard, TryLockResult};
use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
/// Rust libstd's RwLock does not provide any fairness guarantees (and, in fact, when used on
/// Linux with pthreads under the hood, readers trivially and completely starve writers).
/// Because we often hold read locks while doing message processing in multiple threads which
/// can use significant CPU time, with write locks being time-sensitive but relatively small in
/// CPU time, we can end up with starvation completely blocking incoming connections or pings,
/// especially during initial graph sync.
///
/// Thus, we need to block readers when a writer is pending, which we do with a trivial RwLock
/// wrapper here. Its not particularly optimized, but provides some reasonable fairness by
/// blocking readers (by taking the write lock) if there are writers pending when we go to take
/// a read lock.
pub struct FairRwLock<T> {
lock: RwLock<T>,
waiting_writers: AtomicUsize,
}
impl<T> FairRwLock<T> {
pub fn new(t: T) -> Self {
Self { lock: RwLock::new(t), waiting_writers: AtomicUsize::new(0) }
}
// Note that all atomic accesses are relaxed, as we do not rely on the atomics here for any
// ordering at all, instead relying on the underlying RwLock to provide ordering of unrelated
// memory.
pub fn write(&self) -> LockResult<RwLockWriteGuard<T>> {
self.waiting_writers.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
let res = self.lock.write();
self.waiting_writers.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
res
}
pub fn read(&self) -> LockResult<RwLockReadGuard<T>> {
if self.waiting_writers.load(Ordering::Relaxed) != 0 {
let _write_queue_lock = self.lock.write();
}
// Note that we don't consider ensuring that an underlying RwLock allowing writers to
// starve readers doesn't exhibit the same behavior here. I'm not aware of any
// libstd-backing RwLock which exhibits this behavior, and as documented in the
// struct-level documentation, it shouldn't pose a significant issue for our current
// codebase.
self.lock.read()
}
pub fn try_write(&self) -> TryLockResult<RwLockWriteGuard<'_, T>> {
self.lock.try_write()
}
}