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Opening for discussion.

The basic idea is to spawn a parser thread on a global thread-pool (like in Gecko) with an ThreadSafeStylesheetLoader (instead of the previous StylesheetLoader), used when encountering an @import rule to send a task to script thread from the parser thread, which simply instantiates an async fetch on the corresponding document. After the parsing is done, another task is sent to script thread to do the post-parsing steps, like setting the parsed stylesheet on its link element (if applicable), firing the load event, etc.

A problem was that verifying the request generation id before parsing (still on the script thread) introduced a race condition, so I moved that to the post-parse task run on the script thread. This (seems to have) solved the race condition, but it differs in semantics from the sync parsing in that it's now no longer checked before doing the parsing, but after, which incurs an unnecessary parse overhead if the sheet is not applicable (I think).

Also, there seems to be an occasional time-out in one of the CSS tests, and the code needs some cleaning up.


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Heads up! This PR modifies the following files:

  • @asajeffrey: components/script/dom/htmllinkelement.rs, components/script/stylesheet_loader.rs
  • @KiChjang: components/script/dom/htmllinkelement.rs, components/script/stylesheet_loader.rs
  • @emilio: components/style/Cargo.toml, components/style/lib.rs, components/style/servo/global_thread_pool.rs, components/style/servo/mod.rs

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So, it looks generally pretty good! I haven't gone through it entirely (it's been only a quick skim), but I have a few comments, specially regarding the code duplication with the thread-pool.

In any case this is looking great, nice work!

enum ThreadSafeStylesheetSource {
// Same as with `StylesheetSource`, we put the media list in an
// option so we can take it out without having to clone it.
// TODO(mandreyel): Is there a better way to make this `Send`?
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Why is MediaList not send? Looks to me it should be.

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You're right, it is send... I must have been confused by an unrelated error message. I'm glad I don't need to add another heap allocation.


lazy_static! {
/// The global style thread pool instance.
pub static ref STYLE_THREAD_POOL: StyleThreadPool = {
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Hmm, servo already has a thread-pool for layout-related tasks, we should avoid having a new one. That one is created in layout_thread/lib.rs (see LayoutThread::new). Though looks to me that a thread-pool per document is way overkill.

@jdm would you be fine to move to a model where we have a layout thread-pool per process, defined in style? I'm moderately sure that a threadpool per process is not going to fly on pages with 10+ iframes or such.

That way we could share the code with Gecko, and it'd certainly make this kind of patch way easier, since these loads are triggered from script, and right now the thread-pool owner is the layout thread, which doesn't necessarily have the same lifetime as the script thread.

We could still keep the run layout in parallel only if it's worth it logic in the layout thread of course.

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Yes, that sounds sensible.

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Hmm, I think this might be better as a separate PR to isolate changes. What do you think?

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Yeah, that'd be great.

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Alright, I'll open an issue for it once this is merged.

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Actually I meant doing it the other way around, first ensuring that we have a single thread-pool, instead of duplicating all this code. I just did that in #22487, I needed to stop debugging graphics stuff for an hour or so :)

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Oh, just saw this. Yeah, that sounds reasonable, I'll rebase once that's merged :)

// We also need to invalidate a document's stylesheets if this was an
// import rule load, not just in the case of top-level sheet loads.
if self.invalidate_stylesheets {
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So, this is a pre-existing problem, but I don't think we can get away with just invalidating stylesheets if the request succeeds. Doesn't that mean that doing something like:

<link href="valid-sheet.css" onload="this.href = 'invalid-sheet.css';">

Will keep applying valid-sheet.css? We should do the set_stylesheet call and such unconditionally. Anyhow this is pre-existing so instead of fixing it here we should file an issue and address that in a followup patch.

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Unless this is the issue you're running into with that test, in which case we'll need to fix it probably! Or we could mark it as failing for now pointing to this bug.

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I haven't run into issues since doing the changes described earlier, but I won't lie I might be a little too tired right now to understand what the pre-existing problem is, so I may be misunderstanding what you meant :) Why invalidate previous sheets and set the new stylesheet if there was no stylesheet that could be parsed?

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No, it's alright, let's not add behavior changes, and fix that in a followup if it's a problem.

/// here. This function sets up the load context, channels to communicate fetch
/// responses, the request object, and issues an async fetch on the element's
/// document.
fn start_stylesheet_load<'a>(
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nit: No need for <'a>, can just use &HTMLElement below.

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Oh, accidentally left that in!

let document = document_from_node(elem);
let gen = elem
.downcast::<HTMLLinkElement>()
.map(HTMLLinkElement::get_request_generation_id);
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Hmm.... This is really suspicious, <style> elements should also have a generation id, otherwise we could get import loads wrong, right?

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Ditch this, the comment above is wrong.

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vimpunk commented Dec 17, 2018

@emilio Impressive response time :D Thanks for the review, I'll address your points today if I get home in time!

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The basic idea is to spawn a parser thread on a global thread-pool (like in Gecko) with an `AsyncStylesheetLoader` (instead of the previous `StylesheetLoader`), used when encountering an `@import` rule to send a task to script thread from the parser thread, which simply instantiates an async fetch on the corresponding document. After the parsing is done, another task is sent to script thread to do the post-parsing steps, like setting the parsed stylesheet on its link element (if applicable), firing the load event, etc.

A problem was that verifying the request generation id before parsing (still on the script thread) introduced a race condition, so I moved that to the post-parse task run on the script thread. This (seems to have) solved the race condition, but it differs in semantics from the sync parsing in that it's now no longer checked before doing the parsing, but after, which incurs an unnecessary parse overhead if the sheet is not applicable (I think).

Also, there seems to be an occasional time-out in one of the CSS tests, and the code needs some cleaning up.

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Oh damn, forgot to run tidy again...

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@bors-servo try

@jdm is there a bors feature-request somewhere to add some sort of delegate-try=foo syntax, so that @mandreyel can run try runs, but not commit (yet at least :P)?

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The basic idea is to spawn a parser thread on a global thread-pool (like in Gecko) with an `ThreadSafeStylesheetLoader` (instead of the previous `StylesheetLoader`), used when encountering an `@import` rule to send a task to script thread from the parser thread, which simply instantiates an async fetch on the corresponding document. After the parsing is done, another task is sent to script thread to do the post-parsing steps, like setting the parsed stylesheet on its link element (if applicable), firing the load event, etc.

A problem was that verifying the request generation id before parsing (still on the script thread) introduced a race condition, so I moved that to the post-parse task run on the script thread. This (seems to have) solved the race condition, but it differs in semantics from the sync parsing in that it's now no longer checked before doing the parsing, but after, which incurs an unnecessary parse overhead if the sheet is not applicable (I think).

Also, there seems to be an occasional time-out in one of the CSS tests, and the code needs some cleaning up.

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I do not believe that has been requested before. We should give mandreyel try access, though.

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…r-process.

Instead of per-document. This also allows to reuse this thread-pool if needed
for other stuff, like parallel CSS parsing (servo#22478), and to share more code with
Gecko, which is always nice.
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Instead of per-document. This also allows to reuse this thread-pool if needed
for other stuff, like parallel CSS parsing (servo#22478), and to share more code with
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There are a few tests timing out with these patches that look relevant:

https://taskcluster-artifacts.net/Zp_9dkhbSpitqpzNKAYJEA/0/public/filtered-wpt-errorsummary.log

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for other stuff, like parallel CSS parsing (#22478), and to share more code with
Gecko, which is always nice.

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vimpunk commented Dec 24, 2018

The two tests that timed out locally were both related to mismatched origins. I didn't fully understand the wpt tests themselves, but I suspected it was the error path timing out.
For some reason I was going on the parser thread unconditionally--even when the fetch status reported errors--which resulted in immediately enqueuing a "finish async sheet parse" task on script, even though it could have been done without going on the thread in the first place. I moved that bit out of the thread and it seems to have fixed it.

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vimpunk commented Dec 24, 2018

@bors-servo try

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@mandreyel: 🔑 Insufficient privileges: not in try users

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vimpunk commented Dec 24, 2018

Well, damn. @CYBAI Would you be willing to lend a try-hand again? :D Or anyone currently available, really curious if this fixed it.

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atom!("load")
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Since this branch is only executed on fetch failure, can we unconditionally fire an error event here, @emilio?

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Yes, though then you should assert!(any_failed), probably.

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  • Sure :)

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The basic idea is to spawn a parser thread on a global thread-pool (like in Gecko) with an `ThreadSafeStylesheetLoader` (instead of the previous `StylesheetLoader`), used when encountering an `@import` rule to send a task to script thread from the parser thread, which simply instantiates an async fetch on the corresponding document. After the parsing is done, another task is sent to script thread to do the post-parsing steps, like setting the parsed stylesheet on its link element (if applicable), firing the load event, etc.

A problem was that verifying the request generation id before parsing (still on the script thread) introduced a race condition, so I moved that to the post-parse task run on the script thread. This (seems to have) solved the race condition, but it differs in semantics from the sync parsing in that it's now no longer checked before doing the parsing, but after, which incurs an unnecessary parse overhead if the sheet is not applicable (I think).

Also, there seems to be an occasional time-out in one of the CSS tests, and the code needs some cleaning up.

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☀️ Test successful - android-mac, arm32, arm64, linux-rel-css, linux-rel-wpt, mac-rel-css1, mac-rel-css2, mac-rel-wpt1, mac-rel-wpt2, mac-rel-wpt3, mac-rel-wpt4, magicleap, status-taskcluster
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Need to take a closer look after Christmas, so only a bit of high-level feedback. Feel free to not take any action yet if you don't want to :)

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Yes, though then you should assert!(any_failed), probably.

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// Unroot document and move that into the thread. TODO(mandreyel):
// Should we move a rooted or an unrooted document into the thread?
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This comment makes no sense. Trusted<> values are "rooted" by definition, and you can't use normal Root<T> objects off-thread, so...

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I think I was a bit tired when I wrote this and got confused. Thanks for the clarification.

StylesheetSource::LinkElement(Some(media.take().unwrap()))
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StylesheetSource::Import(ref mut sheet) => StylesheetSource::Import(sheet.clone()),
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This feels a bit hacky, and clones the Import unnecessarily. Seems like process_response_eof should take self instead of &mut self.

In any case that can be a TODO or a follow-up.

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Agreed, this is a conscious workaround for what you say. I'll add the TODO and open an issue and do the follow-up PR, if you don't mind :)

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We should probably fall back to sync parsing if we want CSS errors... But we don't have a good way of doing that, so this is probably ok for now.

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I was thinking of this too but didn't see or know of any flag that explicitly sets this. I'll open an issue on this once this is merged.

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// https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1142
let successful = metadata.status.map_or(false, |(code, _)| code == 200);
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So, it is a bit weird that we fire the sync error event for status.is_err(), but not for this. It'd be great to do this consistently.

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It used to be consistent, in that error event was fired in the FinishAsyncStylesheetLoadTask in all cases, but it seems (asynchronously) firing this event there, on status.is_err(), caused the timeouts. I haven't had the time to figure out exactly why.
I don't like the inconsistency either, but the difficulty I see is that in the sync version successful is determined after parsing and setting the sheet. So if we wanted consistency, we'd have to go on the parser thread only to send a task to script to fire the error event without parsing anything, which causes timeouts and what my latest commit fixes.
(I tried if only parsing the sheet if status.is_ok() && metadata.status.map_or(false, |(code, _)| code == 200) was true worked, because it would simplify the branching logic, but this also caused timeouts.)

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@emilio What do you think?

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Ahh, sorry for the lag here, mostly christmas vacation. I should try to take a look at those timeouts. Have you ever used rr? It's very useful to diagnose this kind of stuff. There's something really fishy there.

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No worries, I was also afk for the holidays :) Happy new year btw! I haven't used it yet, but I'll try it sometime in the next few days.

[edit] Just letting you know that I haven't forgotten about this but a lot of unexpected things have happened that consumed all my time. I'll foreseeably be able to continue in ~2 weeks.

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It is a bit unfortunate to have this duplicated in two places... :/

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Agreed. This was a quick-and-dirty fix before Christmas descended full force, will refactor in a bit.

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Done.

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This cannot go away.

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Oh, sorry, that was a rebase-merge accident.

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Done.

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☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #22521) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.

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dralley commented Apr 12, 2020

It looks like this was really close to being merged before falling by the wayside, would it be much work to finish it off?

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It's been a while indeed! I'm sorry about that. I'll try to finish this on one of the following weekends, I've just been swamped in this past year and a half and only now am I starting have a breather.

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…e listener

The goal of this change is to prevent having to copy so much data out of
listeners when a fetch completes, which will be particularly important
for off-the-main thread parsing of CSS (see servo#22478). This change has
pros and cons:

Pros:
 - This makes the design of the `FetchResponseListener` a great deal simpler.
   They no longer individually store a dummy `ResourceFetchTiming` that is
   only replaced right before `process_response_eof`.
 - The creation of the `Arc<Mutex<FetchResponseListener>>` in the
   `NetworkListener` is abstracted away from clients and now they just
   pass the `FetchResponseListener` to the fetch methods in the global.

Cons:
 - Now each `FetchResponseListener` must explicitly call `submit_timing`
   instead of having the `NetworkListener` do it. This is arguably a bit
   easier to follow in the code.
 - Since the internal data of the `NetworkListener` is now an
   `Arc<Mutex<Option<FetchResponseListener>>>`, when the fetching code
   needs to share state with the `NetworkListener` it either needs to
   share an `Option` or some sort of internal state. In one case I've
   stored the `Option` and in another case, I've stored a new inner
   shared value.

Signed-off-by: Martin Robinson <mrobinson@igalia.com>

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…e listener (#40556)

The goal of this change is to prevent having to copy so much data out of
listeners when a fetch completes, which will be particularly important
for off-the-main thread parsing of CSS (see #22478). This change has
pros and cons:

Pros:
- This makes the design of the `FetchResponseListener` a great deal
simpler.
They no longer individually store a dummy `ResourceFetchTiming` that is
   only replaced right before `process_response_eof`.
 - The creation of the `Arc<Mutex<FetchResponseListener>>` in the
   `NetworkListener` is abstracted away from clients and now they just
   pass the `FetchResponseListener` to the fetch methods in the global.

Cons:
 - Now each `FetchResponseListener` must explicitly call `submit_timing`
   instead of having the `NetworkListener` do it. This is arguably a bit
   easier to follow in the code.
 - Since the internal data of the `NetworkListener` is now an
   `Arc<Mutex<Option<FetchResponseListener>>>`, when the fetching code
   needs to share state with the `NetworkListener` it either needs to
   share an `Option` or some sort of internal state. In one case I've
   stored the `Option` and in another case, I've stored a new inner
   shared value.

Testing: This should not change observable behavior and is thus covered
by existing tests.
Fixes: #22550

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Signed-off-by: Martin Robinson <mrobinson@igalia.com>
mrobinson added a commit to mrobinson/servo that referenced this pull request Nov 14, 2025
This change is a rework of servo#22478, originally authored by @vimpunk.

It adds parsing of CSS in parallel with the main script thread. The
big idea here is that when the transfer of stylesheet bytes is
finished, the actual parsing is pushed to a worker thread from the Stylo
thread pool. This also applies for subsequent loads triggered by
`@import` statements.

The design is quite similar to the previous PR with a few significant
changes:

 - Error handling works properly. The `CSSErrorReporter` is a crossbeam
   `Sender` and a `PipelineId` so it can be trivially cloned and sent to
   the worker thread.
 - Generation checking is done both before and after parsing, in order
   to both remove the race condition and avoid extra work when the
   generations do not match.
 - The design is reworked a bit to avoid code duplication, dropping added
   lines from 345 to 160.
 - Now that `process_response_eof` gives up ownership to the
   `FetchResponseListener`, this change avoids all extra copies.

Co-authored-by: mandreyel <mandreyel@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Robinson <mrobinson@igalia.com>
mrobinson added a commit to mrobinson/servo that referenced this pull request Nov 14, 2025
This change is a rework of servo#22478, originally authored by @vimpunk.

It adds parsing of CSS in parallel with the main script thread. The
big idea here is that when the transfer of stylesheet bytes is
finished, the actual parsing is pushed to a worker thread from the Stylo
thread pool. This also applies for subsequent loads triggered by
`@import` statements.

The design is quite similar to the previous PR with a few significant
changes:

 - Error handling works properly. The `CSSErrorReporter` is a crossbeam
   `Sender` and a `PipelineId` so it can be trivially cloned and sent to
   the worker thread.
 - Generation checking is done both before and after parsing, in order
   to both remove the race condition and avoid extra work when the
   generations do not match.
 - The design is reworked a bit to avoid code duplication, dropping added
   lines from 345 to 160.
 - Now that `process_response_eof` gives up ownership to the
   `FetchResponseListener`, this change avoids all extra copies.

Co-authored-by: mandreyel <mandreyel@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Robinson <mrobinson@igalia.com>
github-merge-queue bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 15, 2025
This change is a rework of #22478, originally authored by @vimpunk.

It adds parsing of CSS in parallel with the main script thread. The
big idea here is that when the transfer of stylesheet bytes is
finished, the actual parsing is pushed to a worker thread from the Stylo
thread pool. This also applies for subsequent loads triggered by
`@import` statements.

The design is quite similar to the previous PR with a few significant
changes:

 - Error handling works properly. The `CSSErrorReporter` is a crossbeam
   `Sender` and a `PipelineId` so it can be trivially cloned and sent to
   the worker thread.
 - Generation checking is done both before and after parsing, in order
   to both remove the race condition and avoid extra work when the
   generations do not match.
- The design is reworked a bit to avoid code duplication, dropping added
   lines from 345 to 160.
 - Now that `process_response_eof` gives up ownership to the
   `FetchResponseListener`, this change avoids all extra copies.

Testing: This shouldn't change observable behavior, so is covered
by existing tests.
Fixes: #20721
Closes: #22478

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Signed-off-by: Martin Robinson <mrobinson@igalia.com>
Co-authored-by: mandreyel <mandreyel@protonmail.com>
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