ompi request handling race condition fix (MT-case)

Described in #1813

Author: artpol84

opal/threads/wait_sync.h

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  *                         reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2016      Los Alamos National Security, LLC. All rights
  *                         reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2016      Mellanox Technologies. All rights reserved.
  * $COPYRIGHT$
  *
  * Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@
  */
 #include "opal/sys/atomic.h"
 #include "opal/threads/condition.h"
+#include "opal/constants.h"
+#include "opal/prefetch.h"
 #include <pthread.h>
 
 BEGIN_C_DECLS
@@ -33,17 +36,29 @@ typedef struct ompi_wait_sync_t {
 
 #define WAIT_SYNC_RELEASE(sync)                       \
     if (opal_using_threads()) {                       \
+       pthread_mutex_lock(&(sync)->lock);             \
        pthread_cond_destroy(&(sync)->condition);      \
+       pthread_mutex_unlock(&(sync)->lock);           \
        pthread_mutex_destroy(&(sync)->lock);          \
     }
 
-#define WAIT_SYNC_SIGNAL(sync)                        \
+#define WAIT_SYNC_LOCK(sync)                          \
     if (opal_using_threads()) {                       \
-        pthread_mutex_lock(&(sync->lock));            \
-        pthread_cond_signal(&sync->condition);        \
-        pthread_mutex_unlock(&(sync->lock));          \
+        pthread_mutex_lock(&((sync)->lock));          \
     }
 
+#define WAIT_SYNC_SIGNAL_UNLOCK(sync)                 \
+    if (opal_using_threads()) {                       \
+        pthread_cond_signal(&((sync)->condition));    \
+        pthread_mutex_unlock(&((sync)->lock));        \
+    }
+
+#define WAIT_SYNC_UNLOCK(sync)                        \
+    if (opal_using_threads()) {                       \
+        pthread_mutex_unlock(&((sync)->lock));          \
+    }
+
+
 OPAL_DECLSPEC int sync_wait_mt(ompi_wait_sync_t *sync);
 static inline int sync_wait_st (ompi_wait_sync_t *sync)
 {
@@ -75,16 +90,38 @@ static inline int sync_wait_st (ompi_wait_sync_t *sync)
  */
 static inline void wait_sync_update(ompi_wait_sync_t *sync, int updates, int status)
 {
+    /* Fast path: if we can decrement the sync->count without
+     * dropping it to 0 - just return
+     * Consider that there might be concurrent decrements
+     */
+    if( OPAL_LIKELY(OPAL_SUCCESS == status) ) {
+        /* we know that our contribution is not yet there
+         * so we can safely check if the count will still be above 0
+         * after the change */
+        while( (sync->count - updates > 0) ){
+            if( OPAL_ATOMIC_CMPSET_32(&sync->count, sync->count, sync->count - updates) ){
+                /* fastpath succeeds */
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
+    /* Slow path */
+    WAIT_SYNC_LOCK(sync);
+    
     if( OPAL_LIKELY(OPAL_SUCCESS == status) ) {
         if( 0 != (OPAL_THREAD_ADD32(&sync->count, -updates)) ) {
-            return;
+            goto unlock;
         }
     } else {
         /* this is an error path so just use the atomic */
         opal_atomic_swap_32 (&sync->count, 0);
         sync->status = OPAL_ERROR;
     }
-    WAIT_SYNC_SIGNAL(sync);
+    WAIT_SYNC_SIGNAL_UNLOCK(sync);
+    return;
+unlock:
+    WAIT_SYNC_UNLOCK(sync);
 }
 
 END_C_DECLS