rsc:
ken pointed out that there's a race in the new
one-lock-per-channel code. the issue is that
if one goroutine has gone to sleep doing
select {
case <-c1:
case <-c2:
}
and then two more goroutines try to send
on c1 and c2 simultaneously, the way that
the code makes sure only one wins is the
selgen field manipulation in dequeue:
// if sgp is stale, ignore it
if(sgp->selgen != sgp->g->selgen) {
//prints("INVALID PSEUDOG POINTER\n");
freesg(c, sgp);
goto loop;
}
// invalidate any others
sgp->g->selgen++;
but because the global lock is gone both
goroutines will be fiddling with sgp->g->selgen
at the same time.
This results in a 7% slowdown in the single threaded case for a
ping-pong microbenchmark.
Since the cas predominantly succeeds, adding a simple check first
didn't make any difference.