tech-kern:
- Invert priority space so that zero is the lowest priority. Rearrange
number and type of priority levels into bands. Add new bands like
'kernel real time'.
- Ignore the priority level passed to tsleep. Compute priority for
sleep dynamically.
- For SCHED_4BSD, make priority adjustment per-LWP, not per-process.
on the original approach of SVR4 with some inspirations about balancing
and migration from Solaris. It implements per-CPU runqueues, provides a
real-time (RT) and time-sharing (TS) queues, ready to support a POSIX
real-time extensions, and also prepared for the support of CPU affinity.
The following lines in the kernel config enables the SCHED_M2:
no options SCHED_4BSD
options SCHED_M2
The scheduler seems to be stable. Further work will come soon.
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Thanks <ad> for the benchmarks!
by yamt@.
- Introduce SOBJ_SLEEPQ_LIFO, and use for LWPs sleeping via _lwp_park.
libpthread enqueues most waiters in LIFO order to try and wake LWPs that
ran recently, since their working set is more likely to be in cache.
Matching the order of insertion reduces the time spent searching queues
in the kernel.
- Do not boost the priority of LWPs sleeping in _lwp_park, just let them
sleep at their user priority level. LWPs waiting for some I/O event in
the kernel still wait with kernel priority and get woken more quickly.
This needs more evaluation and is to be revisited, but the effect on a
variety of benchmarks is positive.
- When waking LWPs, do not send an IPI to remote CPUs or arrange for the
current LWP to be preempted unless (a) the thread being awoken has kernel
priority and has higher priority than the currently running thread or (b)
the remote CPU is idle.
from doc/BRANCHES:
idle lwp, and some changes depending on it.
1. separate context switching and thread scheduling.
(cf. gmcgarry_ctxsw)
2. implement idle lwp.
3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces.
4. make scheduler(s) modular.
- cv_wait and friends: after resuming execution, check to see if we have
been restarted as a result of cv_signal. If we have, but cannot take
the wakeup (because of eg a pending Unix signal or timeout) then try to
ensure that another LWP sees it. This is necessary because there may
be multiple waiters, and at least one should take the wakeup if possible.
Prompted by a discussion with pooka@.
- typedef struct lwp lwp_t;
- int -> bool, struct lwp -> lwp_t in a few places.
P_*/L_* naming convention, and rename the in-kernel flags to avoid
conflict. (P_ -> PK_, L_ -> LW_ ). Add back the (now unused) LSDEAD
constant.
Restores source compatibility with pre-newlock2 tools like ps or top.
Reviewed by Andrew Doran.
