ID:               50238
 Updated by:       ras...@php.net
 Reported By:      yoarvi at gmail dot com
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Analyzed
 Bug Type:         Performance problem
 Operating System: Solaris 5.10 (SPARC)
 PHP Version:      6SVN-2009-11-20 (SVN)
 New Comment:

It seems silly that this would make a difference.  I guess make the
change in trunk.  Can't do it in the branches because it would break
binary compatibility.


Previous Comments:
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[2009-11-20 10:29:03] yoarvi at gmail dot com

Description:
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When compiled for multi-threaded (#ifdef ZTS ) operation, the various
subsystems in PHP use dynamically allocated (ts_allocate_id)
identifiers to index into the thread-local storage for each subsystem.
These dynamically allocated ids are used by macros such as CG, EG, PG,
AG.

The TSRMG macro is defined as:
#define TSRMG(id, type, element)        (((type) (*((void ***)
tsrm_ls))[TSRM_UNSHUFFLE_RSRC_ID(id)])->element)

The PG macro is defined as:
# define PG(v) TSRMG(core_globals_id, php_core_globals *, v)

where core_globals_id is
extern PHPAPI int core_globals_id;

cc -E of
        PG(connection_status) = PHP_CONNECTION_ABORTED;
translates to:
 (((php_core_globals *) (*((void ***)
tsrm_ls))[((core_globals_id)-1)])->connection_status) = 1;

and cc -S of the same code results in:
        .loc 1 108 0
        movl    %ebx, %eax
        subl    core_globals_id, %eax
        movl    (%esi), %edx
        sall    $2, %eax
        negl    %eax
        movl    (%edx,%eax), %eax
        movw    $1, 144(%eax)

I used fixed IDs instead of dynamically allocated ones and noticed a
decent improvement in performance (few percentage points) when
running a web-based ecommerce-site workload on SPARC CMT hardware.

With my changes the PG macro is defined as:
# define PG(v) TSRMG(CORE_GLOBALS_ID, php_core_globals *, v)

#define CORE_GLOBALS_ID                                 10

and core_globals_id is
extern PHPAPI const ts_rsrc_id core_globals_id;

cc -E of the same line of code translates to:
 (((php_core_globals *) (*((void ***)
tsrm_ls))[((10)-1)])->connection_status) = 1;

cc -S (my version):
        .loc 1 108 0
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        movl    36(%eax), %eax
        movw    $1, 144(%eax)

The relevant discussion can be found here:
http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=125742200330841&w=2

Reproduce code:
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The following patch implements this and incorporates the feedback
received on internals: 

http://bitbucket.org/arvi/arviq/src/tip/arvi-16-ts_allocate_reserved_id

Expected result:
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Improved performance when PHP is compiled with support for
multi-threading.



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