I've been playing with collections and threading and came across the nifty extension methods people have created to ease the use of ReaderWriterLockSlim by allowing the IDisposable pattern.
However, I believe I have come to realize that something in the implementation is a performance killer. I realize that extension methods are not supposed to really impact performance, so I am left assuming that something in the implementation is the cause... the amount of Disposable structs created/collected?
Here's some test code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace LockPlay {
static class RWLSExtension {
struct Disposable : IDisposable {
readonly Action _action;
public Disposable(Action action) {
_action = action;
}
public void Dispose() {
_action();
}
} // end struct
public static IDisposable ReadLock(this ReaderWriterLockSlim rwls) {
rwls.EnterReadLock();
return new Disposable(rwls.ExitReadLock);
}
public static IDisposable UpgradableReadLock(this ReaderWriterLockSlim rwls) {
rwls.EnterUpgradeableReadLock();
return new Disposable(rwls.ExitUpgradeableReadLock);
}
public static IDisposable WriteLock(this ReaderWriterLockSlim rwls) {
rwls.EnterWriteLock();
return new Disposable(rwls.ExitWriteLock);
}
} // end class
class Program {
class MonitorList<T> : List<T>, IList<T> {
object _syncLock = new object();
public MonitorList(IEnumerable<T> collection) : base(collection) { }
T IList<T>.this[int index] {
get {
lock(_syncLock)
return base[index];
}
set {
lock(_syncLock)
base[index] = value;
}
}
} // end class
class RWLSList<T> : List<T>, IList<T> {
ReaderWriterLockSlim _rwls = new ReaderWriterLockSlim();
public RWLSList(IEnumerable<T> collection) : base(collection) { }
T IList<T>.this[int index] {
get {
try {
_rwls.EnterReadLock();
return base[index];
} finally {
_rwls.ExitReadLock();
}
}
set {
try {
_rwls.EnterWriteLock();
base[index] = value;
} finally {
_rwls.ExitWriteLock();
}
}
}
} // end class
class RWLSExtList<T> : List<T>, IList<T> {
ReaderWriterLockSlim _rwls = new ReaderWriterLockSlim();
public RWLSExtList(IEnumerable<T> collection) : base(collection) { }
T IList<T>.this[int index] {
get {
using(_rwls.ReadLock())
return base[index];
}
set {
using(_rwls.WriteLock())
base[index] = value;
}
}
} // end class
static void Main(string[] args) {
const int ITERATIONS = 100;
const int WORK = 10000;
const int WRITE_THREADS = 4;
const int READ_THREADS = WRITE_THREADS * 3;
// create data - first List is for comparison only... not thread safe
int[] copy = new int[WORK];
IList<int>[] l = { new List<int>(copy), new MonitorList<int>(copy), new RWLSList<int>(copy), new RWLSExtList<int>(copy) };
// test each list
Thread[] writeThreads = new Thread[WRITE_THREADS];
Thread[] readThreads = new Thread[READ_THREADS];
foreach(var list in l) {
Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
for(int k=0; k < ITERATIONS; k++) {
for(int i = 0; i < writeThreads.Length; i++) {
writeThreads[i] = new Thread(p => {
IList<int> il = p as IList<int>;
int c = il.Count;
for(int j = 0; j < c; j++) {
il[j] = j;
}
});
writeThreads[i].Start(list);
}
for(int i = 0; i < readThreads.Length; i++) {
readThreads[i] = new Thread(p => {
IList<int> il = p as IList<int>;
int c = il.Count;
for(int j = 0; j < c; j++) {
int temp = il[j];
}
});
readThreads[i].Start(list);
}
for(int i = 0; i < readThreads.Length; i++)
readThreads[i].Join();
for(int i = 0; i < writeThreads.Length; i++)
writeThreads[i].Join();
};
sw.Stop();
Console.WriteLine("time: {0} class: {1}", sw.Elapsed, list.GetType());
}
Console.WriteLine("DONE");
Console.ReadLine();
}
} // end class
} // end namespace
Here's a typical result:
time: 00:00:03.0965242 class: System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Int32] time: 00:00:11.9194573 class: LockPlay.Program+MonitorList`1[System.Int32] time: 00:00:08.9510258 class: LockPlay.Program+RWLSList`1[System.Int32] time: 00:00:16.9888435 class: LockPlay.Program+RWLSExtList`1[System.Int32] DONE
As you can see, using the extensions actually makes the performance WORSE than just using lock (monitor).