tech-kern last year. Instead of modifying callout_stop, add a new
routine (callout_halt) which will sleep if the callout is already in
flight. Note that if a callout can take locks, the caller of callout_halt
must not hold any of those locks - otherwise the two could deadlock.
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.
initialized. Update the txp(4) to compensate.
- Statically initialize the TCP timer callout handles in the tcpcb
template. We still use callout_setfunc(), but that call is now much
less expensive. Add a comment that the compiler is likely to unroll
the loop (so don't sweat that it's there).
to make users of the callout facility able to cooperate to work around the
race caused by the callout code lowering interrupt priority level when
invoking callout handlers, something which allows other code to run before
the callout handler gets to it's spl*() call.
This is to enable the workaround for the TCP code found in PR#20390 to be
applied.
This should be backed out once a more comprehensive fix can be put in
place.
done by Artur Grabowski and Thomas Nordin for OpenBSD, which is more
efficient in several ways than the callwheel implementation that it is
replacing. It has been adapted to our pre-existing callout API, and
also provides the slightly more efficient (and much more intuitive)
API (adapted to the callout_*() naming scheme) that the OpenBSD version
provides.
Among other things, this shaves a bunch of cycles off rescheduling-in-
the-future a callout which is already scheduled, which the common case
for TCP timers (notably REXMT and KEEP).
The API has been simplified a bit, as well. The (very confusing to
a good many people) "ACTIVE" state for callouts has gone away. There
is now only "PENDING" (scheduled to fire in the future) and "EXPIRED"
(has fired, and the function called).
Kernel version bump not done; we'll ride the 1.6N bump that happened
with the malloc(9) change.
matt