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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-11-21 17:25:51 -0500
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-11-21 17:25:51 -0500
commitf4e053d6dff0b868449a8c225c2062b42083733f (patch)
tree337379ba96b60ab4d4e671821e3ea3eaa207e670
parentb3c988f0d7e18c243074e3e583c10b204521088f (diff)
parent8e388bc39ceb9b1a642359005b320cdc994f8a4e (diff)
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Merge branch 'bug4518' into maint-0.2.2
-rw-r--r--changes/bug45184
-rw-r--r--src/or/cpuworker.c14
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug4518 b/changes/bug4518
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8dcb93bf72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug4518
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ o Minor bugfixes (performance):
+ - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
+ function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
+ busy servers. Fixes bug 4518.
diff --git a/src/or/cpuworker.c b/src/or/cpuworker.c
index c5e4863f7f..9d196d36eb 100644
--- a/src/or/cpuworker.c
+++ b/src/or/cpuworker.c
@@ -446,9 +446,19 @@ assign_onionskin_to_cpuworker(connection_t *cpuworker,
{
char qbuf[1];
char tag[TAG_LEN];
+ time_t now = approx_time();
+ static time_t last_culled_cpuworkers = 0;
- cull_wedged_cpuworkers();
- spawn_enough_cpuworkers();
+ /* Checking for wedged cpuworkers requires a linear search over all
+ * connections, so let's do it only once a minute.
+ */
+#define CULL_CPUWORKERS_INTERVAL 60
+
+ if (last_culled_cpuworkers + CULL_CPUWORKERS_INTERVAL <= now) {
+ cull_wedged_cpuworkers();
+ spawn_enough_cpuworkers();
+ last_culled_cpuworkers = now;
+ }
if (1) {
if (num_cpuworkers_busy == num_cpuworkers) {