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Golang sync.Map原理

原生map的“先天不足”

对于已经初始化了的原生map,我们可以尽情地对其进行并发读:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "math/rand"
    "sync"
)

func main() {
    var wg sync.WaitGroup
    var m = make(map[int]int, 100)

    for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
        m[i] = i
    }

    wg.Add(10)
    for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
        // 并发读
        go func(i int) {
            for j := 0; j < 100; j++ {
                n := rand.Intn(100)
                fmt.Printf("goroutine[%d] read m[%d]: %d\n", i, n, m[n])
            }
            wg.Done()
        }(i)
    }
    wg.Wait()
}

但原生map一个最大的问题就是不支持多goroutine并发写。Go runtime内置对原生map并发写的检测,一旦检测到就会以panic的形式阻止程序继续运行,比如下面这个例子:

package main

import (
        "math/rand"
        "sync"
)

func main() {
        var wg sync.WaitGroup
        var m = make(map[int]int, 100)

        for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
                m[i] = i
        }

        wg.Add(10)
        for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
                // 并发写
                go func(i int) {
                        for n := 0; n < 100; n++ {
                                n := rand.Intn(100)
                                m[n] = n
                        }
                        wg.Done()
                }(i)
        }
        wg.Wait()
}

运行上面这个并发写的例子,我们很大可能会得到下面panic:

$go run concurrent_builtin_map_write.go
fatal error: concurrent map writes

... ...

原生map的“先天不足”让其无法直接胜任某些场合的要求,于是gopher们便寻求其他路径。一种路径无非是基于原生map包装出一个支持并发读写的自定义map类型,比如,最简单的方式就是用一把互斥锁(sync.Mutex)同步各个goroutine对map内数据的访问;如果读多写少,还可以利用读写锁(sync.RWMutex)来保护map内数据,减少锁竞争,提高并发读的性能。很多第三方map的实现原理也大体如此。

另外一种路径就是使用sync.Map。

sync.Map逻辑

写:直写。
读:先读read,没有再读dirty。
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sync.Map底层使用了两个原生map,一个叫read,仅用于读;一个叫dirty,用于在特定情况下存储最新写入的key-value数据:
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read(这个map)好比整个sync.Map的一个“高速缓存”,当goroutine从sync.Map中读取数据时,sync.Map会首先查看read这个缓存层是否有用户需要的数据(key是否命中),如果有(命中),则通过原子操作将数据读取并返回,这是sync.Map推荐的快路径(fast path),也是为何上面基准测试结果中读操作性能极高的原因。

基础结构

sync.Map的核心数据结构:

type Map struct {
	mu Mutex
	read atomic.Value // readOnly
	dirty map[interface{}]*entry
	misses int
}

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这里有必要简单描述一下,大概的逻辑,

readOnly的数据结构:

type readOnly struct {
    m  map[interface{}]*entry
    amended bool 
}

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entry的数据结构:

type entry struct {
    //可见value是个指针类型,虽然read和dirty存在冗余情况(amended=false),但是由于是指针类型,存储的空间应该不是问题
    p unsafe.Pointer // *interface{}
}

这个结构体主要是想说明。虽然前文read和dirty存在冗余的情况,但是由于value都是指针类型,其实存储的空间其实没增加多少。

原理

接下来,我们给位于~/go/src/github.com/bigwhite/experiments/inside-syncmap/syncmap/sync下面的map.go中(sync.Map包的副本)添加一个Map类型的新方法Dump:

func (m *Map) Dump() {
        fmt.Printf("=====> sync.Map:\n")
        // dump read
        read, ok := m.read.Load().(readOnly)
        fmt.Printf("\t read(amended=%v):\n", read.amended)
        if ok {
                // dump readOnly's map
                for k, v := range read.m {
                        fmt.Printf("\t\t %#v:%#v\n", k, v)
                }
        }

        // dump dirty
        fmt.Printf("\t dirty:\n")
        for k, v := range m.dirty {
                fmt.Printf("\t\t %#v:%#v\n", k, v)
        }

        // dump miss
        fmt.Printf("\t misses:%d\n", m.misses)

        // dump expunged
        fmt.Printf("\t expunged:%#v\n", expunged)
        fmt.Printf("<===== sync.Map\n")
}

这个方法将打印Map的内部状态以及read、dirty两个原生map中的所有key-value对,这样我们在初始状态、store key-value后、load key以及delete key后通过Dump方法输出sync.Map状态便可以看到不同操作后sync.Map内部的状态变化,从而间接了解sync.Map的工作原理。下面我们就分情况剖析sync.Map的行为特征。

1. 初始状态

sync.Map是零值可用的,我们可以像下面这样定义一个sync.Map类型变量,并无需做显式初始化。

var m sync.Map

我们通过Dump输出初始状态下的sync.Map的内部状态:

func main() {
        var m sync.Map
        fmt.Println("sync.Map init status:")
        m.Dump()

        ... ...

}

运行后,输出如下:

sync.Map init status:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=false):
     dirty:
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001101e0)
<===== sync.Map

在初始状态下,dirty和read两个内置map内都无数据。expunged是一个哨兵变量(也是一个包内的非导出变量),它在sync.Map包初始化时就有了一个固定的值。该变量在后续用于元素删除场景(删除的key并不立即从map中删除,而是将其value置为expunged)以及load场景。如果哪个key值对应的value值与explunged一致,说明该key已经被map删除了(即便该key所占用的内存资源尚未释放)。

var expunged = unsafe.Pointer(new(interface{}))

2. 写入数据(store)

下面,我们向Map写入一条数据:

type val struct {
        s string
}

func main() {
        ... ...
        val1 := &val{"val1"}
        m.Store("key1", val1)
        fmt.Println("\nafter store key1:")
        m.Dump()

        ... ...

}

我们看一下存入新数据后,Map内部的状态:

after store key1:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
     dirty:
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000108080)}
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000108040)
<===== sync.Map

我们看到写入(key1,value1)后,Map中有两处变化,一处是dirty map,新写入的数据存储在dirty map中;第二处是read中的amended值由false变为了true,表示dirty map中存在某些read map还没有的key

3. dirty提升(promoted)为read

此时,如果我们调用一次sync.Map的Load方法,无论传给Load的key值是否为”key1″还是其他,sync.Map内部都会发生较大变化,我们来看一下:

m.Load("key2") //这里我们尝试load key="key2"
fmt.Println("\nafter load key2:")
m.Dump()

下面是Load方法调用后Dump方法输出的内容:

after load key2:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=false):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
     dirty:
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

我们看到:原dirty map中的数据被提升(promoted)到read map中了,提升后amended值重新变回false。

结合sync.Map中Load方法的源码,我们得出如下sync.Map的工作原理:当Load方法在read map中没有命中(miss)传入的key时,该方法会再次尝试在dirty中继续匹配key;无论是否匹配到,Load方法都会在锁保护下调用missLocked方法增加misses的计数(+1);如果增加完计数的misses值大于等于dirty map中的元素个数,则会将dirty中的元素整体提升到read:

func (m *Map) missLocked() {
        m.misses++  //计数+1
        if m.misses < len(m.dirty) {
                return
        }
        m.read.Store(readOnly{m: m.dirty})  // dirty提升到read
        m.dirty = nil  // dirty置为nil
        m.misses = 0 // misses计数器清零
}

为了验证上述promoted的条件,我们再来做一组实验:

 val2 := &val{"val2"}
 m.Store("key2", val2)
 fmt.Println("\nafter store key2:")
 m.Dump()

 val3 := &val{"val3"}
 m.Store("key3", val3)
 fmt.Println("\nafter store key3:")
 m.Dump()

 m.Load("key1")
 fmt.Println("\nafter load key1:")
 m.Dump()

 m.Load("key2")
 fmt.Println("\nafter load key2:")
 m.Dump()

 m.Load("key2")
 fmt.Println("\nafter load key2 2nd:")
 m.Dump()

 m.Load("key2")
 fmt.Println("\nafter load key2 3rd:")
 m.Dump()

在完成一次promoted动作之后,我们又向sync.Map中写入两个key:key2和key3,并在后续Load一次key1并连续三次Load key2,下面是Dump方法的输出结果:

after store key2:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
     dirty:
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010290)}
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

after store key3:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
     dirty:
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010290)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0000102c0)}
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

after load key1:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
     dirty:
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0000102c0)}
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010290)}
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

after load key2:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
     dirty:
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010290)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0000102c0)}
     misses:1
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

after load key2 2nd:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
     dirty:
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010290)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0000102c0)}
     misses:2
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

after load key2 3rd:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=false):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010290)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0000102c0)}
     dirty:
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

我们看到在写入key2这条数据后,dirty中不仅存储了key2这条数据,原read中的key1数据也被复制了一份存入到dirty中。这个操作是由sync.Map的dirtyLocked方法完成的:

func (m *Map) dirtyLocked() {
        if m.dirty != nil {
                return
        }

        read, _ := m.read.Load().(readOnly)
        m.dirty = make(map[interface{}]*entry, len(read.m))
        for k, e := range read.m {
                if !e.tryExpungeLocked() {
                        m.dirty[k] = e
                }
        }
}

前面我们提到过,promoted(dirty -> read)是一个整体的指针交换操作,promoted时,sync.Map直接将原dirty指针store给read并将自身置为nil,因此sync.Map要保证amended=true时,dirty中拥有整个Map的全量数据,这样在下一次promoted(dirty -> read)时才不会丢失数据。不过dirtyLocked是通过一个迭代实现的元素从read到dirty的复制,如果Map中元素规模很大,这个过程付出的损耗将很大,并且这个过程是在锁保护下的。

在存入key3后,我们调用Load方法先load了key1,由于key1在read中有记录,因此此次load命中了,走的是快路径,对Map状态没有任何影响。

之后,我们又Load了key2,key2不在read中,因此产生了一次miss。misses增加计数后的值为1,而此时dirty中的元素数量为3,不满足promote的条件,于是没有执行promote操作。后续我们又连续进行了两次key2的Load操作,产生了两次miss事件后,misses的计数值等于了dirty中的元素数量,于是promote操作被执行,dirty map整体被置换给read,自己则变成了nil。

4. 更新已存在的key

我们再来看一下更新已存在的key的值的情况。首先是该key仅存在于read中(刚刚promote完毕),而不在dirty中。我们更新这时仅在read中存在的key2的值:

val2_1 := &val{"val2_1"}
m.Store("key2", val2_1)
fmt.Println("\nafter update key2(in read, not in dirty):")
m.Dump()

下面是Dump输出的结果:

after update key2(in read, not in dirty):
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=false):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e220)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2d0)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2a0)}
     dirty:
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e1e0)
<===== sync.Map

我们看到sync.Map直接更新了位于read中的key2的值(entry.storeLocked方法实现的),dirty和其他字段没有受到影响。

第二种情况是该key刚store到dirty中,尚未promote,不在read中。我们新增一个key4,并更新其值:

val4 := &val{"val4"}
m.Store("key4", val4)
fmt.Println("\nafter store key4:")
m.Dump()

val4_1 := &val{"val4_1"}
m.Store("key4", val4_1)
fmt.Println("\nafter update key4(not in read, in dirty):")
m.Dump()

dump方法的输出结果如下:

after store key4:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e220)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2d0)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2a0)}
     dirty:
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e220)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2d0)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2a0)}
         "key4":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e310)}
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e1e0)
<===== sync.Map

after update key4(not in read, in dirty):
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e220)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2d0)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2a0)}
     dirty:
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e220)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2d0)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2a0)}
         "key4":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e330)}
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e1e0)
<===== sync.Map

我们看到,sync.Map同样是直接将key4对应的value重新设置为新值(val4_1)。

5. 删除key

为了方便查看,我们将上述Map状态回滚到刚刚promote(dirty -> read)完的时刻,即:

after load key2 3rd:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=false):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e220)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e270)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e2a0)}
     dirty:
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc00008e1e0)
<===== sync.Map

删除key也有几种情况,我们分别来看一下:

删除的key仅存在于read中

我们删除上面Map中仅存在于read中的key2:

m.Delete("key2")
fmt.Println("\nafter delete key2:")
m.Dump()

删除后的Dump结果如下:

after delete key2:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=false):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010240)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(nil)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0000102c0)}
     dirty:
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

我们看到sync.Map并没有删除key2,而是将其value置为nil。

删除的key仅存在于dirty中

为了构造初仅存在于dirty中的key,我们向sync.Map写入新数据key4,然后再立刻删除它

val4 := &val{"val4"}
m.Store("key4", val4)
fmt.Println("\nafter store key4:")
m.Dump()

m.Delete("key4")
fmt.Println("\nafter delete key4:")
m.Dump()

上述代码的Dump结果如下:

after store key4:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000104220)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001041e0)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001042a0)}
     dirty:
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000104220)}
         "key4":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001042f0)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001042a0)}
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001041e0)
<===== sync.Map

after delete key4:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000104220)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001041e0)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001042a0)}
     dirty:
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001042a0)}
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000104220)}
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001041e0)
<===== sync.Map

我们看到:和仅在read中的情况不同(仅将value设置为nil),仅存在于dirty中的key被删除后,该key就不再存在了。这里还有一点值得注意的是:当向dirty写入key4时,dirty会复制read中的未被删除的元素,由于key2已经被删除,因此顺带将read中的key2对应的value设置为哨兵(expunged),并且该key不会被加入到dirty中。直到下一次promote,该key才会被回收(因为read被交换指向新的dirty,原read指向的内存将被GC)。

删除的key既存在于read,也存在于dirty中

目前上述sync.Map实例中既存在于read,也存在于dirty中的key有key1和key3(key2已经被删除),我们这里以删除key1为例:

after delete key1:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001041e0)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001042a0)}
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(nil)}
     dirty:
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001042a0)}
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(nil)}
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0001041e0)
<===== sync.Map

我们看到删除key1后,read和dirty两个map中的key1均没有真正删除,而是将其value设置为nil。

我们再触发一次promote:连续调用两次导致read miss的LOAD:

m.Load("key5")
fmt.Println("\nafter load key5:")
m.Dump()

m.Load("key5")
fmt.Println("\nafter load key5 2nd:")
m.Dump()

调用后的Dump输出如下:

after load key5:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=true):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(nil)}
         "key2":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0000102c0)}
     dirty:
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0000102c0)}
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(nil)}
     misses:1
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

after load key5 2nd:
=====> sync.Map:
     read(amended=false):
         "key1":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(nil)}
         "key3":&smap.entry{p:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc0000102c0)}
     dirty:
     misses:0
     expunged:(unsafe.Pointer)(0xc000010200)
<===== sync.Map

我们看到虽然dirty中的key1已经处于被删除状态,但它仍算作dirty元素的个数,因此第二次miss才会触发promote。promote后,dirty被赋值给read,因此原dirty中的key1元素就顺带进入到read中,只能等下次写入一个不存在的新key时才能被置为哨兵值,并在下一次promote时才能被真正删除释放。

总结

优点:是官方出的,是亲儿子;通过读写分离,降低锁时间来提高效率;

缺点:不适用于大量写的场景,这样会导致read map读不到数据而进一步加锁读取,同时dirty map也会一直晋升为read map,整体性能较差。 适用场景:大量读,少量写

原文链接:

https://tonybai.com/2020/11/10/understand-sync-map-inside-through-examples/
https://juejin.cn/post/6844903895227957262

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