/* * Fork/Join Framework * * Test that tasks are actually processed concurrently when more than 2 worker threads * are forked. This test would fail if the framework inadvertently held a global * lock during task processing. * * This is part of the minimum requirements because such a flaw would be considered * disastrous, completely negating the point of a thread pool execution framework. * * Written by G. Back for CS3214 Spring 2016. */ #include <pthread.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include <time.h> #include "threadpool.h" #include "threadpool_lib.h" #define DEFAULT_THREADS 2 #define DEFAULT_TASKS 40 struct time_range { uintptr_t taskno; struct timeval start; struct timeval end; }; static void * test_task(struct thread_pool *pool, struct time_range * data) { struct timespec sleep_time = { .tv_sec = 0, .tv_nsec = 50*1000*1000 // 50 ms should be plenty to allow for overlap }; gettimeofday(&data->start, NULL); nanosleep(&sleep_time, NULL); gettimeofday(&data->end, NULL); return (void *)data->taskno; } static int run_test(int nthreads, int ntasks) { struct benchmark_data * bdata = start_benchmark(); struct thread_pool * threadpool = thread_pool_new(nthreads); struct time_range start_end[ntasks]; struct future * futures[ntasks]; printf("starting %d tasks...\n", ntasks); for (int i = 0; i < ntasks; i++) { start_end[i].taskno = i; futures[i] = thread_pool_submit(threadpool, (fork_join_task_t) test_task, start_end + i); } for (int i = 0; i < ntasks; i++) { uintptr_t r = (uintptr_t) future_get(futures[i]); // consistency check if (r != i) { fprintf(stderr, "Wrong result, expected %d, got %lu\n", i, r); abort(); } future_free(futures[i]); } thread_pool_shutdown_and_destroy(threadpool); stop_benchmark(bdata); // now analyze the data. We expect that at least nthreads different // tasks were running concurrently. In other words, there exists a // task t that was started while nthreads-1 other tasks had been started, // but before each of these tasks finished. // Try to find it. int best = 0; for (int i = 0; i < ntasks; i++) { int conc_with_i = 0; for (int j = 0; j < ntasks; j++) if (i != j) { if (timercmp(&start_end[j].start, &start_end[i].start, <) && timercmp(&start_end[i].start, &start_end[j].end, <)) { // j was running while when i was started. conc_with_i++; } } if (conc_with_i > best) best = conc_with_i; } if (best < nthreads - 1) { fprintf(stderr, "Wrong result, expected that %d tasks execute concurrently when " "forked from the main thread, but I could only find a parallelism level of %d\n", nthreads - 1, best); abort(); } report_benchmark_results(bdata); printf("Test successful.\n"); free(bdata); return 0; } /**********************************************************************************/ static void usage(char *av0, int exvalue) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s [-n <n>] [-t <t>]\n" " -n number of threads in pool, default %d\n" " -t number of tasks, default %d\n" , av0, DEFAULT_THREADS, DEFAULT_TASKS); exit(exvalue); } int main(int ac, char *av[]) { int c, nthreads = DEFAULT_THREADS, ntasks = DEFAULT_TASKS; while ((c = getopt(ac, av, "hn:t:")) != EOF) { switch (c) { case 'n': nthreads = atoi(optarg); if (nthreads == 1) { fprintf(stderr, "Cannot test for concurrency with only 1 thread\n"); abort(); } break; case 't': ntasks = atoi(optarg); break; case 'h': usage(av[0], EXIT_SUCCESS); } } return run_test(nthreads, ntasks); }