- Signal names can be symbols, as stated above.
- Supported signals and those values are platform dependent.
- Key sequences to send signal are configurable.
- Fix description of signal 0.
Co-authored-by: Peter Zhu <peter@peterzhu.ca>
This commit adds `free_empty_pages` which frees all empty heap pages and
moves the number of pages freed to the allocatable pages counter. This
is used in Process.warmup to improve performance because page
invalidation from copy-on-write is slower than allocating a new page.
This both save time for when it will be eventually needed,
and avoid mutating heap pages after a potential fork.
Instrumenting some large Rails app, I've witnessed up to
58% of String instances having their coderange still unknown.
[Feature #18885]
For now, the optimizations performed are:
- Run a major GC
- Compact the heap
- Promote all surviving objects to oldgen
Other optimizations may follow.
This reverts commit 18e55fc1e1ec20e8f3166e3059e76c885fc9f8f2.
fix [Bug #19704]
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19704
This breaks compatibility for extension libraries. Such changes
need a discussion.
* Add rb_io_path and rb_io_open_descriptor.
* Use rb_io_open_descriptor to create PTY objects
* Rename FMODE_PREP -> FMODE_EXTERNAL and expose it
FMODE_PREP I believe refers to the concept of a "pre-prepared" file, but
FMODE_EXTERNAL is clearer about what the file descriptor represents and
aligns with language in the IO::Buffer module.
* Ensure that rb_io_open_descriptor closes the FD if it fails
If FMODE_EXTERNAL is not set, then it's guaranteed that Ruby will be
responsible for closing your file, eventually, if you pass it to
rb_io_open_descriptor, even if it raises an exception.
* Rename IS_EXTERNAL_FD -> RUBY_IO_EXTERNAL_P
* Expose `rb_io_closed_p`.
* Add `rb_io_mode` to get IO mode.
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Co-authored-by: KJ Tsanaktsidis <ktsanaktsidis@zendesk.com>
[Feature #18885]
For now, the optimizations performed are:
- Run a major GC
- Compact the heap
- Promote all surviving objects to oldgen
Other optimizations may follow.
[Feature #19443]
Until recently most libc would cache `getpid()` so this was a cheap check to make.
However as of glibc version 2.25 the PID cache is removed and calls to getpid() always
invoke the actual system call which significantly degrades the performance of existing applications.
The reason glibc removed the cache is that some libraries were bypassing fork(2)
by issuing system calls themselves, causing stale cache issues.
That isn't a concern for Ruby as bypassing MRI's primitive for forking would
render the VM unusable, so we can safely cache the PID.
rb_pid_t is 32 bits on some platforms, which will cause a warning on GCC
due to POSFIXABLE always returning true.
include/ruby/internal/arithmetic/fixnum.h:43:31: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
[Feature #19443]
It's not uncommon for database client and similar network libraries
to protect themselves from Process.fork by regularly checking Process.pid
Until recently most libc would cache `getpid()` so this was a cheap
check to make.
However as of glibc version 2.25 the PID cache is removed and calls to
`getpid()` always invoke the actual system call which significantly degrades
the performance of existing applications.
The reason glibc removed the cache is that some libraries were bypassing
`fork(2)` by issuing system calls themselves, causing stale cache issues.
That isn't a concern for Ruby as bypassing MRI's primitive for forking
would render the VM unusable, so we can safely cache the PID.
* Revert "Remove special handling of `SIGCHLD`. (#7482)"
This reverts commit 44a0711eab7fbc71ac2c8ff489d8c53e97a8fe75.
* Revert "Remove prototypes for functions that are no longer used. (#7497)"
This reverts commit 4dce12bead3bfd91fd80b5e7195f7f540ffffacb.
* Revert "Remove SIGCHLD `waidpid`. (#7476)"
This reverts commit 1658e7d96696a656d9bd0a0c84c82cde86914ba2.
* Fix change to rjit variable name.
