On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:17 PM Jason E. Aten <j.e.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, March 15, 2021 at 12:58:38 PM UTC-5 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>
>> I think it is too strong to say that the scheduler is the "bottleneck"
>> in calling C code, but I believe that the operations required to tell
>> the scheduler what is happening to the goroutine are the most costly
>> parts of a call into C code.
>
>
> Thanks Ian! I looked through 
> https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/cmd/cgo but couldn't
> locate where the CGO communication with the scheduler happens. Could you 
> point out the code?

It is in runtime.cgocall, notably the calls to entersyscall and
exitsyscall.  Also pay attention to runtime.cgocallbackg, which is
invoked when calling back from C to Go.  Both functions are in
src/runtime/cgocall.go.  It will help to review the long comment at
the start of that file.

Ian

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