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 f7daf5a4987af3fc8f8a15d1e1655995ff610009Author: 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 overrideNo rationale or explanation precisely if the G_UNLIKELY optimizationwas 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.
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