Bug 39836

Summary: add a regression test/stress-test for thread-safe reference counting
Product: dbus Reporter: Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component: coreAssignee: Simon McVittie <smcv>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: John (J5) Palmieri <johnp>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: cosimo.alfarano, hp, will
Version: 1.4.xKeywords: patch
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~smcv/dbus/log/?h=atomic-refs-test-39836
Whiteboard: review+
i915 platform: i915 features:
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Bug Blocks: 36164    
Attachments: [PATCH 1/2] relay test: don't leak the server's address
[PATCH 2/2] Add a regression test for fd.o #38005
patch 2/2 adapted for dbus-1.4

Description Simon McVittie 2011-08-04 09:05:30 UTC
I've written a test for Bug #38005, which I'll attach in a moment. It basically refs and unrefs an object 4 million times in 200 threads, and checks that the refcount hits 0 at the right time.

(Perhaps those numbers are a bit enthusiastic, but on my dual-core laptop it takes 4 seconds and peaks at 15 MB resident, and even on a single-core ARM device it only takes 10 seconds.)
Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2011-08-04 09:09:04 UTC
Created attachment 49922 [details] [review]
[PATCH 1/2] relay test: don't leak the server's address

Not entirely related, but I noticed this while writing the new test.
Comment 2 Simon McVittie 2011-08-04 09:10:27 UTC
Created attachment 49923 [details] [review]
[PATCH 2/2] Add a regression test for fd.o #38005

This uses internal API so it can exercise (for instance) both the ref and ref_unlocked code paths, and also so it can create pending call objects.
Comment 3 Simon McVittie 2011-08-04 09:19:08 UTC
Created attachment 49924 [details] [review]
patch 2/2 adapted for dbus-1.4

The code is the same, only the Makefile.am differs.
Comment 4 Will Thompson 2011-08-05 04:32:37 UTC
Review of attachment 49922 [details] [review]:

++
Comment 5 Will Thompson 2011-08-05 04:56:52 UTC
Well, I was about to complain that 4 seconds seems like a lot, but it's dwarfed by the rest of the test suite. (Which is in itself not a good thing, but silences my vague objection. ☺) ++
Comment 6 Simon McVittie 2011-08-11 03:59:54 UTC
Thanks, fixed in 1.4.16, 1.5.8

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