Re: [PATCH spice-gtk] Remove unnecessary debug check from SPICE_DEBUG

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On 9 Jun 2017, at 17:47, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 05:47 -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:

Calling spice_util_get_debug() from the SPICE_DEBUG() macro is
unnecessary since g_log() will already check whether the message
will
actually be printed. The only benefit to calling this function from
SPICE_DEBUG() is that it ensures that the SPICE_DEBUG environment
variable gets read the very first time we try to log something with
this macro. To solve this problem we instead use a constructor
function
to ensure that the env var is read at startup.

Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 src/spice-util.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
 src/spice-util.h |  7 ++-----
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/spice-util.c b/src/spice-util.c
index 86377b6..848f20a 100644
--- a/src/spice-util.c
+++ b/src/spice-util.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 */
 #include "config.h"
 
+#include <common/macros.h>
 #include <stdbool.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>

I would prefer the include after system includes, like spice-server
rules.

@@ -63,13 +64,6 @@ static void
spice_util_enable_debug_messages(void)
  **/
 void spice_util_set_debug(gboolean enabled)
 {
-    /* Make sure debug_once has been initialised
-     * with the value of SPICE_DEBUG already, otherwise
-     * spice_util_get_debug() may overwrite the value
-     * that was just set using spice_util_set_debug()
-     */
-    spice_util_get_debug();
-
     if (enabled) {
         spice_util_enable_debug_messages();
     }
@@ -88,6 +82,15 @@ static gpointer getenv_debug(gpointer data)
     return GINT_TO_POINTER(debug);
 }
 
+/* Make sure debug_once has been initialised with the value of
SPICE_DEBUG
at
+ * startup, otherwise spice_util_get_debug() may overwrite the
value that is
+ * set using spice_util_set_debug() */
+SPICE_CONSTRUCTOR_FUNC(spice_log_init)
+{
+    /* ensure that we enable debugging if the SPICE_DEBUG variable
is set */
+    spice_util_get_debug();
+}
+
 gboolean spice_util_get_debug(void)
 {
     g_once(&debug_once, getenv_debug, NULL);

the g_once/GOnce is redundant with constructors. Constructors are
called in a single thread environment so don't need any serialization
(note: destructors don't follow this rule).

Right.

You could then use a simpler variable and write all SPICE_DEBUG check
in the constructor.
At this point you could use the new variable instead of
spice_util_get_debug (maybe using a static inline function to keep
API/flexibility).

diff --git a/src/spice-util.h b/src/spice-util.h
index a2a7683..7a95a9e 100644
--- a/src/spice-util.h
+++ b/src/spice-util.h
@@ -32,11 +32,8 @@ gulong spice_g_signal_connect_object(gpointer
instance,
                                      GConnectFlags connect_flags);
 gchar* spice_uuid_to_string(const guint8 uuid[16]);
 
-#define SPICE_DEBUG(fmt, ...)                                   \
-    do {                                                        \
-        if (G_UNLIKELY(spice_util_get_debug()))                 \
-            g_debug(G_STRLOC " " fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__);          \
-    } while (0)
+#define SPICE_DEBUG(fmt, ...) \
+    g_debug(G_STRLOC " " fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__)
 
 #define SPICE_RESERVED_PADDING (10 * sizeof(void*))
 

I think the unlikely here is an optimization we want avoiding the
expensive g_debug call. And would be even better with my variable
proposal.

Hmm. This seems like unnecessary optimization to me. The glib logging
functions already have a check to see whether the message should be
printed. So adding our own (possibly out-of-sync) check around the call
seems unnecessary. Essentially:

if (spice_debug_enabled) {
 // function call to g_logv() which contains pseudo-code like:
 if (glib_debug_enabled) {
   // log the message
 }
}

I think if the debug function call overhead really is expensive enough
that it starts affecting the behavior of the program, then enabling
logging we will *definitely* affect the behavior of the program. I'd
rather to see evidence that it's a problem before we optimize it.

Jonathon


Yes, but you are removing an optimization without evidence too.

The change was introduced by f7daf5a4987af3fc8f8a15d1e1655995ff610009:

commit f7daf5a4987af3fc8f8a15d1e1655995ff610009
Author: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Nov 17 22:14:15 2010 +0100

   gtk: add a flag to turn debug off, SPICE_DEBUG=1 to override


No rationale or explanation precisely if the G_UNLIKELY optimization
was intentional.

About intentional or not, why this:

#define spice_warn_if_fail(x) G_STMT_START {            \
    if G_LIKELY(x) { } else {                           \
        spice_warning("condition `%s' failed", #x);     \
    }                                                   \
} G_STMT_END

instead of G_UNLIKELY(!(x)) ?

I see nothing “bad” in that code, it just looks weird.


Frediano
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