device: use a waiting sync.Pool instead of a channel

Channels are FIFO which means we have guaranteed cache misses.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/device/pools_test.go b/device/pools_test.go
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+++ b/device/pools_test.go
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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2019-2021 WireGuard LLC. All Rights Reserved.
+ */
+
+package device
+
+import (
+	"math/rand"
+	"runtime"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestWaitPool(t *testing.T) {
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	trials := int32(100000)
+	workers := runtime.NumCPU() + 2
+	if workers-4 <= 0 {
+		t.Skip("Not enough cores")
+	}
+	p := NewWaitPool(uint32(workers-4), func() interface{} { return make([]byte, 16) })
+	wg.Add(workers)
+	max := uint32(0)
+	updateMax := func() {
+		count := atomic.LoadUint32(&p.count)
+		if count > p.max {
+			t.Errorf("count (%d) > max (%d)", count, p.max)
+		}
+		for {
+			old := atomic.LoadUint32(&max)
+			if count <= old {
+				break
+			}
+			if atomic.CompareAndSwapUint32(&max, old, count) {
+				break
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for i := 0; i < workers; i++ {
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			for atomic.AddInt32(&trials, -1) > 0 {
+				updateMax()
+				x := p.Get()
+				updateMax()
+				time.Sleep(time.Duration(rand.Intn(100)) * time.Microsecond)
+				updateMax()
+				p.Put(x)
+				updateMax()
+			}
+		}()
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+	if max != p.max {
+		t.Errorf("Actual maximum count (%d) != ideal maximum count (%d)", max, p.max)
+	}
+}