netty5/common/src/main
nitsanw 32aab3b0b3 Fix false sharing between head and tail reference in MpscLinkedQueue
Motivation:

The tail node reference writes (by producer threads) are very likely to
invalidate the cache line holding the headRef which is read by the
consumer threads in order to access the padded reference to the head
node. This is because the resulting layout for the object is:

- header
- Object AtomicReference.value -> Tail node
- Object MpscLinkedQueue.headRef -> PaddedRef -> Head node

This is 'passive' false sharing where one thread reads and the other
writes.  The current implementation suffers from further passive false
sharing potential from any and all neighbours to the queue object as no
pre/post padding is provided for the class fields.

Modifications:

Fix the memory layout by adding pre-post padding for the head node and
putting the tail node reference in the same object.

Result:

Fixed false sharing
2014-06-21 17:57:06 +09:00
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java/io/netty/util Fix false sharing between head and tail reference in MpscLinkedQueue 2014-06-21 17:57:06 +09:00