This flag determines whether the thread should currently
process the work in the thread->todo worklist.
The prime usecase for this is improving the performance
of synchronous transactions: all synchronous transactions
post a BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE to the calling thread,
but there's no reason to return that command to userspace
right away - userspace anyway needs to wait for the reply.
Likewise, a synchronous transaction that contains a binder
object can cause a BC_ACQUIRE/BC_INCREFS to be returned to
userspace; since the caller must anyway hold a strong/weak
ref for the duration of the call, postponing these commands
until the reply comes in is not a problem.
Note that this flag is not used to determine whether a
thread can handle process work; a thread should never pick
up process work when thread work is still pending.
Before patch:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
------------------------------------------------------------------
BM_sendVec_binderize/4 45959 ns 20288 ns 34351
BM_sendVec_binderize/8 45603 ns 20080 ns 34909
BM_sendVec_binderize/16 45528 ns 20113 ns 34863
BM_sendVec_binderize/32 45551 ns 20122 ns 34881
BM_sendVec_binderize/64 45701 ns 20183 ns 34864
BM_sendVec_binderize/128 45824 ns 20250 ns 34576
BM_sendVec_binderize/256 45695 ns 20171 ns 34759
BM_sendVec_binderize/512 45743 ns 20211 ns 34489
BM_sendVec_binderize/1024 46169 ns 20430 ns 34081
After patch:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
------------------------------------------------------------------
BM_sendVec_binderize/4 42939 ns 17262 ns 40653
BM_sendVec_binderize/8 42823 ns 17243 ns 40671
BM_sendVec_binderize/16 42898 ns 17243 ns 40594
BM_sendVec_binderize/32 42838 ns 17267 ns 40527
BM_sendVec_binderize/64 42854 ns 17249 ns 40379
BM_sendVec_binderize/128 42881 ns 17288 ns 40427
BM_sendVec_binderize/256 42917 ns 17297 ns 40429
BM_sendVec_binderize/512 43184 ns 17395 ns 40411
BM_sendVec_binderize/1024 43119 ns 17357 ns 40432
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Change-Id: Ia70287066d62aba64e98ac44ff1214e37ca75693
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