[ros-dev] Re: [ros-diffs] [ion] 14047: Dispatching & Queue Rewrite
II:
Alex Ionescu
ionucu at videotron.ca
Mon Mar 14 14:56:59 CET 2005
Gunnar Dalsnes wrote:
> ion at svn.reactos.com wrote:
>
>> Dispatching & Queue Rewrite II:
>>
>> - Rewrote wait code. It is now cleaner, more optimized and
>> faster. All waiting
>> functions are now clearly differentiated instead of sharing code.
>
>
> Imo, sharing the wait code is cleaner... (I remember the time i merged
> the old wait code into one routine, heh)
I admit it's cleaner, but speed is more important, imo. Debate that can
go on for ages however :)
>
> These functions
>
>> are called up to a dozen times a second, so having dedicated
>> code for each of
>> them is a real boost in speed.
>> - Fixed several queue issues, made a dedicated queue wait/wake
>> function (you are not
>> supposed to use KeWaitFor on a queue,
>
>
> I used KeWaitXxx in the queue impl. because i thought it was good to
> have the wait code in one place only. Thou others find speed more
> important:-D
This introduces hacks into KeWaitXxx (remember != WrQueue?? :P) and
also, if you look inside a checked build of NT, you will find
ASSERT(Header->Type != QueueObject) inside KeWaitXxx so that really made
me unshare the code :)
Now that these changes are in, I have rewritten thread termination
(based on Windows Internals Chapter 11) and thread reaping to use
hypercrtical work queues. The code for the latter is much
simpler/smaller and also quite faster, since the OS manages everything.
Termination also works MUCH better, gets rid of the "terminate type"
hacks that were added, and also flushes/delivers all APCs, timers and
mutants (we only flushed mutants!). Windows Internals described the
process in line-by-line pseudo-code so it was a great help.
I should commit that tonight.
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
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