This reverts commit 328bd24443d2a345a5832ee48ebba0208f8036ea. As it turns out, this is not portable and very Linux & glibc specific. Worse, this may lead to not starving writers on Linux but everywhere else. Revert this and if the starvation occurs resolve it. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> --- src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 - src/util/virobject.c | 2 +- src/util/virthread.c | 35 ----------------------------------- src/util/virthread.h | 1 - 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms index 3cc6f4c6e..d98417678 100644 --- a/src/libvirt_private.syms +++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms @@ -2733,7 +2733,6 @@ virMutexUnlock; virOnce; virRWLockDestroy; virRWLockInit; -virRWLockInitPreferWriter; virRWLockRead; virRWLockUnlock; virRWLockWrite; diff --git a/src/util/virobject.c b/src/util/virobject.c index 4236abfef..b1bb378b4 100644 --- a/src/util/virobject.c +++ b/src/util/virobject.c @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ virObjectRWLockableNew(virClassPtr klass) if (!(obj = virObjectNew(klass))) return NULL; - if (virRWLockInitPreferWriter(&obj->lock) < 0) { + if (virRWLockInit(&obj->lock) < 0) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", _("Unable to initialize RW lock")); virObjectUnref(obj); diff --git a/src/util/virthread.c b/src/util/virthread.c index a8dd72f8b..6c495158f 100644 --- a/src/util/virthread.c +++ b/src/util/virthread.c @@ -95,15 +95,6 @@ void virMutexUnlock(virMutexPtr m) } -/** - * virRWLockInit: - * @m: rwlock to init - * - * Initializes RW lock using pthread default attributes (which - * is PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_READER_NP). - * - * Returns 0 on success, -1 otherwise. - */ int virRWLockInit(virRWLockPtr m) { int ret; @@ -115,32 +106,6 @@ int virRWLockInit(virRWLockPtr m) return 0; } - -/** - * virRWLockInitPreferWriter: - * @m: rwlock to init - * - * Initializes RW lock which prefers writers over readers. - * - * Returns 0 on success, -1 otherwise. - */ -int virRWLockInitPreferWriter(virRWLockPtr m) -{ - int ret; - pthread_rwlockattr_t attr; - - pthread_rwlockattr_init(&attr); - pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np(&attr, PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_NP); - ret = pthread_rwlock_init(&m->lock, &attr); - pthread_rwlockattr_destroy(&attr); - if (ret != 0) { - errno = ret; - return -1; - } - return 0; -} - - void virRWLockDestroy(virRWLockPtr m) { pthread_rwlock_destroy(&m->lock); diff --git a/src/util/virthread.h b/src/util/virthread.h index 18b785af2..e466d9bf0 100644 --- a/src/util/virthread.h +++ b/src/util/virthread.h @@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ void virMutexUnlock(virMutexPtr m); int virRWLockInit(virRWLockPtr m) ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK; -int virRWLockInitPreferWriter(virRWLockPtr m) ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK; void virRWLockDestroy(virRWLockPtr m); void virRWLockRead(virRWLockPtr m); -- 2.13.0