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    I think this should be configurable.


- Joshua Colp


On Nov. 18, 2014, 6:40 p.m., Matt Jordan wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 18, 2014, 6:40 p.m.)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
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> Bugs: ASTERISK-24533
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-24533
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> Repository: Asterisk
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> Description
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> Note: don't be fooled by the size of this review. Most of the changes are 
> small and are in stasis.c/stasis_message_router.c.
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> Rob (and CDR on the asterisk-users list, although he never followed up when 
> we asked for more information) discovered that we were creating two 
> additional threads per SIP peer in chan_sip. This actually would occur for a 
> large variety of 'endpoints' in Asterisk, regardless of the channel driver. 
> The two threads were stasis subscriptions, specifically for MWI and for 
> endpoints detecting the destruction of related channels.
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> Stasis subscriptions currently get a dedicated thread. In contrast, prior to 
> r400178 (see review https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2881/), the 
> subscriptions shared a thread pool. It was discovered that for a low 
> subscription count with high message throughput, the threadpool was not as 
> performant as simply having a dedicated thread per subscriber.
> 
> Since then, our subscription pattern has changed slightly. While we still 
> have plenty of subscriptions that would follow the model just described (AMI, 
> CDRs, CEL, etc.) - there are plenty that also fall into the following two 
> categories:
> * Large number of subscriptions, specifically those tied to endpoints/peers.
> * Low number of messages. Some subscriptions exist specifically to coordinate 
> a single message - the subscription is created, a message is published, the 
> delivery is synchronized, and the subscription is destroyed.
> In both of the latter two cases, creating a dedicated thread is wasteful (and 
> in the case of a large number of peers/endpoints, harmful).
> 
> This patch adds the ability of a subscriber to Stasis to choose whether or 
> not their messages are dispatched on a dedicated thread or on a threadpool. 
> The threadpool is currently hard coded in this patch; if configuration is 
> necessary, we could re-add the configuration options in r2881. Pre-mature 
> optimization and all that led me to simply go with a simpler model for now.
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> Note that the approach taken here was to add additional API calls rather than 
> modify existing ones. If we'd rather the thread dispatch model be dictated by 
> a parameter, the new API calls can be removed in trunk and the old API calls 
> modified appropriately.
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> 
> Diffs
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>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/tests/test_stasis.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/res/res_xmpp.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/res/res_stasis_device_state.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/res/res_pjsip_refer.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/res/res_pjsip_pubsub.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/res/res_pjsip_mwi.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/res/res_jabber.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/res/parking/parking_bridge_features.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/res/parking/parking_applications.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/main/stasis_message_router.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/main/stasis_channels.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/main/stasis_cache.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/main/stasis.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/main/endpoints.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/include/asterisk/stasis_message_router.h 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/include/asterisk/stasis_internal.h 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/include/asterisk/stasis.h 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/channels/sig_pri.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/channels/chan_skinny.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/channels/chan_sip.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/channels/chan_mgcp.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/channels/chan_iax2.c 428167 
>   /team/mjordan/12-threadpool/channels/chan_dahdi.c 428167 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/4193/diff/
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> Testing
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> New unit tests were written to cover the new subscription types. This tests 
> receiving messages sent using the threadpool.
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> The MWI tests and channel driver tests in the Test Suite were run and passed.
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> Thanks,
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> Matt Jordan
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