From: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Date: 2011-11-09T01:06:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40848] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5138][Open] Add nonblocking IO that does not use exceptions for EOF and EWOULDBLOCK


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On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 06:59:38AM +0900, Eric Wong wrote:
> Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Bug #5138: Add nonblocking IO that does not use exceptions for EOF and =
EWOULDBLOCK
>=20
> I don't want this issue to get dropped, so I'm summarizing the
> discussion so far for the benefit of folks who haven't followed
> everything (including discussions in related threads to this one).
>=20
> * readpartial + IO.select can still block indefinitely due to:
>=20
>   - user space layers and buffering (SSL, gzip/zlib)
>=20
>   - spurious wakeup on some socket types/kernels
>=20
> * Exceptions with the current *_nonblock methods are expensive.
>=20
>   - extending with IO::Wait* increments the global VM state version
>=20
>     * This invalidates both the global method cache and inline caches in
>       1.9.3.  Invaliding the caches is itself an inexpensive operation
>       since 1.9.3, but the cost of subsequent cache misses can hurt[1]
>=20
>     * This can overflow VM state version within a couple of hours/days
>       on 32-bit systems if IO::Wait* exceptions are raised constantly.
>       Overflowing state version may trigger very rare bugs with
>       false-positive cache hits; vm_clear_all_inline_method_cache() is
>       currently unimplemented to deal with this situation.
>       Overflow is not likely to ever be a problem on 64-bit.
>=20
>   - backtrace generation cost
>=20
>     * Generating backtrace is more expensive in MRI 1.9/2.x than MRI 1.8,
>       it might be even more expensive in alternative VMs
>=20
>     * Additional garbage overhead from backtrace strings
>=20
> * IO::Wait*/Errno::EAGAIN are very common exceptions.
>=20
>   - Anybody using *_nonblock will need to care for exceptions with a
>     begin/rescue.  Changing begin/rescue into the equivalent
>     case statement requires roughly the same amount of code.
>=20
>   - These exceptions make $DEBUG unnecessarily noisy

I spoke with matz about this issue at RubyConf.  I *think* he said it
was a good feature, but he wanted a different API.  I can't remember
exactly.

Maybe matz can comment?

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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