char *cpu_name(struct cpu_info *);
and use it when setting up the runq event counters, avoiding an 8 byte
kmem(4) allocation for each cpu. there are more places the cpuname is
used that can be converted to using this new interface, but that can
and will be done as future work.
as discussed with rmind.
- Add interrupt shielding (direct hardware interrupts away from the
specified CPUs). Not documented just yet but will be soon.
- Redo /dev/cpu time_t compat so no kernel changes are needed.
x86:
- Make intr_establish, intr_disestablish safe to use when !cold.
- Distribute hardware interrupts among the CPUs, instead of directing
everything to the boot CPU.
- Add MD code for interrupt sheilding. This works in most cases but there is
a bug where delivery is not accepted by an LAPIC after redistribution. It
also needs re-balancing to make things fair after interrupts are turned
back on for a CPU.
affinity (cpu_lock protects these operations now).
- Disallow setting of state of CPU to to offline, if there are bound LWPs,
which have no CPU to migrate.
- Disallow setting of affinity for the LWP(s), if all CPUs in the dynamic
CPU-set are offline.
- sched_setaffinity: fix invalid check of kcpuset_isset().
- Rename cpu_setonline() to cpu_setstate().
Should fix PR/39349.
use both types of list.
- Make page coloring and idle zero state per-CPU.
- Maintain per-CPU page freelists. When freeing, put pages onto the local
CPU's lists and the global lists. When allocating, prefer to take pages
from the local CPU. If none are available take from the global list as
done now. Proposed on tech-kern@.
mi_switch(), migration for LSONPROC is now performed via idle loop.
Handles/fixes on-CPU case in lwp_migrate(), misc.
Closes PR/38169, idea of migration via idle loop by Andrew Doran.
proclist_mutex and proclist_lock into a single adaptive mutex (proc_lock).
Implications:
- Inspecting process state requires thread context, so signals can no longer
be sent from a hardware interrupt handler. Signal activity must be
deferred to a soft interrupt or kthread.
- As the proc state locking is simplified, it's now safe to take exit()
and wait() out from under kernel_lock.
- The system spends less time at IPL_SCHED, and there is less lock activity.
mandatory. Remove the 4BSD run queue code. Effects:
- Pluggable scheduler is only responsible for co-ordinating timeshared jobs.
- All systems run with per-CPU run queues.
- 4BSD scheduler gets processor sets / affinity.
- 4BSD scheduler gets a significant peformance boost on some workloads.
Discussed on tech-kern@.
testing by rmind@ and myself.
Which approach to use is still being discussed, but I would like to get
this out of my working tree. If we decide to use a different approach
there is no problem with revisiting this.
cpu_offline. Use this on amd64/i386 to force a FPU save. As this was
triggered by npxsave_cpu/fpusave_cpu not working for a different CPU,
remove the cpu_info argument and adjust npxsave_*/fpusave_* to use bool
for the save.
OK ad@
Add schedctl(8) - a program to control scheduling of processes and threads.
Notes:
- This is supported only by SCHED_M2;
- Migration of LWP mechanism will be revisited;
Proposed on: <tech-kern>. Reviewed by: <ad>.
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.
- Fix inverted logic with r_mcount in M2;
- setrunnable: perform sched_takecpu() when making the LWP runnable;
- setrunnable: l_mutex cannot be spc_mutex here;
This makes cpuctl(8) work with SCHED_M2.
OK by <ad>.
For now these just pass through to the current softintr code.
(The naming is different to allow softint/softintr to co-exist for a while.
I'm hoping that should make it easier to transition.)
- Make structures CPU-cache friendly, as suggested and explained
by Andrew Doran. CACHE_LINE_SIZE definition is invented.
- Use current CPU if NULL is passed to the workqueue_enqueue().
- Implemented MI CPU index, which could be used as an index of array.
Removed linked-lists usage for work queues.
The roundup2() function avoids division, but works only with power of 2.
Reviewed by: <ad>, <yamt>, <tech-kern>
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.
ad