sync: internal dynamically sized lock-free queue for sync.Pool

This adds a dynamically sized, lock-free, single-producer,
multi-consumer queue that will be used in the new Pool stealing
implementation. It's built on top of the fixed-size queue added in the
previous CL.

For #22950, #22331.

Change-Id: Ifc0ca3895bec7e7f9289ba9fb7dd0332bf96ba5a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/166958
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Chase <[email protected]>

Author: aclements

src/sync/export_test.go

@@ -34,3 +34,20 @@ func (d *poolDequeue) PopHead() (interface{}, bool) {
 func (d *poolDequeue) PopTail() (interface{}, bool) {
 	return d.popTail()
 }
+
+func NewPoolChain() PoolDequeue {
+	return new(poolChain)
+}
+
+func (c *poolChain) PushHead(val interface{}) bool {
+	c.pushHead(val)
+	return true
+}
+
+func (c *poolChain) PopHead() (interface{}, bool) {
+	return c.popHead()
+}
+
+func (c *poolChain) PopTail() (interface{}, bool) {
+	return c.popTail()
+}

src/sync/pool_test.go

@@ -151,14 +151,21 @@ func TestPoolStress(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestPoolDequeue(t *testing.T) {
+	testPoolDequeue(t, NewPoolDequeue(16))
+}
+
+func TestPoolChain(t *testing.T) {
+	testPoolDequeue(t, NewPoolChain())
+}
+
+func testPoolDequeue(t *testing.T, d PoolDequeue) {
 	const P = 10
 	// In long mode, do enough pushes to wrap around the 21-bit
 	// indexes.
 	N := 1<<21 + 1000
 	if testing.Short() {
 		N = 1e3
 	}
-	d := NewPoolDequeue(16)
 	have := make([]int32, N)
 	var stop int32
 	var wg WaitGroup

src/sync/poolqueue.go

@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ const dequeueBits = 32
 
 // dequeueLimit is the maximum size of a poolDequeue.
 //
-// This is half of 1<<dequeueBits because detecting fullness depends
-// on wrapping around the ring buffer without wrapping around the
-// index.
-const dequeueLimit = (1 << dequeueBits) / 2
+// This must be at most (1<<dequeueBits)/2 because detecting fullness
+// depends on wrapping around the ring buffer without wrapping around
+// the index. We divide by 4 so this fits in an int on 32-bit.
+const dequeueLimit = (1 << dequeueBits) / 4
 
 // dequeueNil is used in poolDeqeue to represent interface{}(nil).
 // Since we use nil to represent empty slots, we need a sentinel value
@@ -183,3 +183,127 @@ func (d *poolDequeue) popTail() (interface{}, bool) {
 
 	return val, true
 }
+
+// poolChain is a dynamically-sized version of poolDequeue.
+//
+// This is implemented as a doubly-linked list queue of poolDequeues
+// where each dequeue is double the size of the previous one. Once a
+// dequeue fills up, this allocates a new one and only ever pushes to
+// the latest dequeue. Pops happen from the other end of the list and
+// once a dequeue is exhausted, it gets removed from the list.
+type poolChain struct {
+	// head is the poolDequeue to push to. This is only accessed
+	// by the producer, so doesn't need to be synchronized.
+	head *poolChainElt
+
+	// tail is the poolDequeue to popTail from. This is accessed
+	// by consumers, so reads and writes must be atomic.
+	tail *poolChainElt
+}
+
+type poolChainElt struct {
+	poolDequeue
+
+	// next and prev link to the adjacent poolChainElts in this
+	// poolChain.
+	//
+	// next is written atomically by the producer and read
+	// atomically by the consumer. It only transitions from nil to
+	// non-nil.
+	//
+	// prev is written atomically by the consumer and read
+	// atomically by the producer. It only transitions from
+	// non-nil to nil.
+	next, prev *poolChainElt
+}
+
+func storePoolChainElt(pp **poolChainElt, v *poolChainElt) {
+	atomic.StorePointer((*unsafe.Pointer)(unsafe.Pointer(pp)), unsafe.Pointer(v))
+}
+
+func loadPoolChainElt(pp **poolChainElt) *poolChainElt {
+	return (*poolChainElt)(atomic.LoadPointer((*unsafe.Pointer)(unsafe.Pointer(pp))))
+}
+
+func (c *poolChain) pushHead(val interface{}) {
+	d := c.head
+	if d == nil {
+		// Initialize the chain.
+		const initSize = 8 // Must be a power of 2
+		d = new(poolChainElt)
+		d.vals = make([]eface, initSize)
+		c.head = d
+		storePoolChainElt(&c.tail, d)
+	}
+
+	if d.pushHead(val) {
+		return
+	}
+
+	// The current dequeue is full. Allocate a new one of twice
+	// the size.
+	newSize := len(d.vals) * 2
+	if newSize >= dequeueLimit {
+		// Can't make it any bigger.
+		newSize = dequeueLimit
+	}
+
+	d2 := &poolChainElt{prev: d}
+	d2.vals = make([]eface, newSize)
+	c.head = d2
+	storePoolChainElt(&d.next, d2)
+	d2.pushHead(val)
+}
+
+func (c *poolChain) popHead() (interface{}, bool) {
+	d := c.head
+	for d != nil {
+		if val, ok := d.popHead(); ok {
+			return val, ok
+		}
+		// There may still be unconsumed elements in the
+		// previous dequeue, so try backing up.
+		d = loadPoolChainElt(&d.prev)
+	}
+	return nil, false
+}
+
+func (c *poolChain) popTail() (interface{}, bool) {
+	d := loadPoolChainElt(&c.tail)
+	if d == nil {
+		return nil, false
+	}
+
+	for {
+		// It's important that we load the next pointer
+		// *before* popping the tail. In general, d may be
+		// transiently empty, but if next is non-nil before
+		// the pop and the pop fails, then d is permanently
+		// empty, which is the only condition under which it's
+		// safe to drop d from the chain.
+		d2 := loadPoolChainElt(&d.next)
+
+		if val, ok := d.popTail(); ok {
+			return val, ok
+		}
+
+		if d2 == nil {
+			// This is the only dequeue. It's empty right
+			// now, but could be pushed to in the future.
+			return nil, false
+		}
+
+		// The tail of the chain has been drained, so move on
+		// to the next dequeue. Try to drop it from the chain
+		// so the next pop doesn't have to look at the empty
+		// dequeue again.
+		if atomic.CompareAndSwapPointer((*unsafe.Pointer)(unsafe.Pointer(&c.tail)), unsafe.Pointer(d), unsafe.Pointer(d2)) {
+			// We won the race. Clear the prev pointer so
+			// the garbage collector can collect the empty
+			// dequeue and so popHead doesn't back up
+			// further than necessary.
+			storePoolChainElt(&d2.prev, nil)
+		}
+		d = d2
+	}
+}