Let's say the timer is waken up when its hook is called. This patch
reduces ~41% wakeups during idle
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@gmail.com>
* Reorganized the kernel locking related to threads and teams.
* We now discriminate correctly between process and thread signals. Signal
handlers have been moved to teams. Fixes#5679.
* Implemented real-time signal support, including signal queuing, SA_SIGINFO
support, sigqueue(), sigwaitinfo(), sigtimedwait(), waitid(), and the addition
of the real-time signal range. Closes#1935 and #2695.
* Gave SIGBUS a separate signal number. Fixes#6704.
* Implemented <time.h> clock and timer support, and fixed/completed alarm() and
[set]itimer(). Closes#5682.
* Implemented support for thread cancellation. Closes#5686.
* Moved send_signal() from <signal.h> to <OS.h>. Fixes#7554.
* Lots over smaller more or less related changes.
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* The team and thread kernel structures have been renamed to Team and Thread
respectively and moved into the new BKernel namespace.
* Several (kernel add-on) sources have been converted from C to C++ since
private kernel headers are included that are no longer C compatible.
Changes after merging:
* Fixed gcc 2 build (warnings mainly in the scary firewire bus manager).
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this (and other checks) should not be necessary in the first place.
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continuing to run. This must not happen since the thread is the boot CPU's
idle thread performing the early kernel initialization (before the scheduler
is started).
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scheduler. This avoids the need to use the send_signal_etc() work-around for
resume_thread() during the early kernel initialization. Might fix#5851.
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* Implemented a tiny bit more sophisticated version of
estimate_max_scheduling_latency() that uses a syscall that lets the scheduler
decide.
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- enqueue_in_run_queue() no longer returns whether rescheduling is supposed
to happen. Instead is sets cpu_ent::invoke_scheduler on the current CPU.
- reschedule() does now handle cpu_ent::invoke_scheduler_if_idle(). No need
to let all callers do that.
* thread_unblock[_locked]() no longer return whether rescheduling is supposed
to happen.
* Got rid of the B_INVOKE_SCHEDULER handling. The interrupt hooks really
can't know, when it makes sense to reschedule or not.
* Introduced scheduler_reschedule_if_necessary[_locked]() functions for
checking+invoking the scheduler.
* Some semaphore functions (e.g. delete_sem()) invoke the scheduler now, if
they wake up anything with greater priority.
I've also tried to add scheduler invocations in the condition variable and
mutex/rw_lock code, but that actually has a negative impact on performance,
probably because it causes too much ping-ponging between threads when
multiple locking primitives are involved.
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* Moved the CPU selection conde into a separate function.
* Re-added the support for disabling CPUs, which I accidentally removed.
* Got rid of idle CPU tracking. We don't need it anymore -- we iterate
through all CPUs and check the priority of the running thread.
* Added a kind of round-robin component to the CPU selection loop, so that
we pick CPUs more evenly. And indeed, the ProcessController display is
less skewed, now. There doesn't seem to be a measurable performance gain,
though.
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* simple_smp scheduler: Rewrote the interesting part of
enqueue_in_run_queue(). It always selects a target CPU for the inserted
thread, now. If no CPU is idle, the CPU running the thread with the lowest
priority is chosen. If the thread running on the target CPU has a lower
priority than the inserted one, it will be asked to reschedule. If that's
the current CPU, we'll return the correct value (wasn't done before at
all).
These changes help reducing latencies. On my machine in an idle system
playing music DebugAnalyzer shows maximum latencies of about 1 us. I still
find that a bit much, but it's several orders of magnitude better than
before. The -j8 Haiku image build time dropped about 10%.
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implemented by means of an additional member in cpu_ent.
* Removed thread::keep_scheduled and the related functions. The feature
wasn't used yet and wouldn't have worked as implemented anyway.
* Resurrected an older, SMP aware version of our simple scheduler and made it
the default instead of the affine scheduler. The latter is in no state to
be used yet. It causes enormous latencies (I've seen up to 0.1s) even when
six or seven CPUs were idle at the same time, totally killing parallelism.
That's also the reason why a -j8 build was slower than a -j2. This is no
longer the case. On my machine the -j2 build takes about 10% less time now
and the -j8 build saves another 20%. The latter is not particularly
impressive (compared with Linux), but that seems to be due to lock
contention.
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as the BeOS scheduler. This makes MediaPlayer playback much better, as high
priority threads could lose their quantum to a worker thread twice in a row
with 4% probability before.
* I did not yet change the simple scheduler as well yet; maybe this isn't the
final one either.
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been removed. That includes CPU disabling and thread pinning, as that becomes
pointless with only one CPU.
* Return a proper reschedule hint on enqueing a thread, based on the priority
of the current thread vs. the enqueued one.
* Enable dynamic scheduler selection. With one CPU the simple scheduler will
be used, otherwise affine is selected.
* Removed the scheduler type define as we now always auto-select it.
* Some cleanup.
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* scheduler_enqueue_in_runqueue() now allows the scheduler to return a hint as to whether a reschedule is desirable or not. This is used in a few other places in order to relegate scheduling decisions entirely to the scheduler rather than the priority hacks previously used. There are probably other places in the kernel that could now make use of that information to more intelligently call reschedule() though.
* Switch over the default scheduler to scheduler_affine().
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* Keep track of the currently running threads.
* Make use of that info to decide if a thread that becomes ready should preempt
the running thread.
* If we should preempt we send the target CPU a reschedule message.
* This preemption strategy makes keeping track of idle CPUs by means of a bitmap
superflous and it is therefore removed.
* Right now only other CPUs are preempted though, not the current one.
* Add missing initialization of the quantum tracking code.
* Do not extend the quantum of the idle thread based quantum tracking as we want
it to not run longer than necessary. Once the preemption works completely
adding a quantum timer for the idle thread will become unnecessary though.
* Fix thread stealing code, it did missed the last thread in the run queue.
* When stealing, try to steal the highest priority thread that is currently
waiting by taking priorities into account when finding the target run queue.
* Simplify stealing code a bit as well.
* Minor cleanups.
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re-insert it at a new place, but by only setting the priority and not the
next_priority field, the thread would actually be enqueued at the same priority
level as before. Didn't cause any real damage, guess it was just an oversight.
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is a syscall iframe.
* User debugger support: Don't to call BreakpointManager::PrepareToContinue(),
if the thread returns from a syscall. We don't want to skip breakpoints in
that case.
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- Moved scheduler listening interface to <listeners.h> and added more
convenient to use templatized notification functions.
- Added a listener mechanism for the wait objects (semaphores, condition
variables, mutex, rw_lock).
* system profiler:
- Hopefully fixed locking issues related to notifying the profiler thread
for good. We still had an inconsistent locking order, since the scheduler
notification callbacks are invoked with the thread lock held and have to
acquire the object lock then, while the other callbacks acquired the object
lock first and as a side effect of ConditionVariable::NotifyOne() acquired
the thread lock. Now we make sure the object lock is the innermost lock.
- Track the number of dropped events due to a full buffer.
_user_system_profiler_next_buffer() returns this count now.
- When scheduling profiling events are requested also listen to wait objects
and generate the respective profiling events. We send those events lazily
and cache the infos to avoid resending an event for the same wait object.
- When starting profiling we do now generate "thread scheduled" events for
the already running threads.
- _user_system_profiler_start(): Check whether the parameters pointer is a
userland address at all.
- The system_profiler_team_added event does now also contain the team's name.
* Added a sem_get_name_unsafe() returning a semaphore's name. It is "unsafe",
since the caller has to ensure that the semaphore exists and continues to
exist as long as the returned name is used.
* Adjusted the "profile" and "scheduling_recorder" according to the system
profiling changes. The latter prints the number of dropped events, now.
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manipulating the queue is a particularly unsuitable place for calling the
listeners, as they wouldn't be allowed to e.g. unblock threads, since that
would screw the run queue.
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* We started the "main2" thread too late. Since the scheduler was already
started on all CPUs, the idle thread could wait (for a mutex) while
spawing the "main2" thread. This violated the assumption in the scheduler
that all idle threads would always be ready or running. We now create the
thread while the kernel runs still single-threaded.
* scheduler_start() is now invoked with interrupts still disabled. We enable
them after the function returns. This prevents scheduler_reschedule() from
potentially being invoked before scheduler_start().
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1) We now maintain a runqueue per CPU, rather than a single global shared queue. Idle threads are segregated into their own queue for simplicity.
2) Enqueueing threads is now somewhat more intelligent - if the thread is pinned, it is always enqueued onto that core. Otherwise we enqueue it on whichever CPU it previously ran, unless it either hasn't run before, or that core has been disabled via ProcessController. If so, we try to enqueue it on whichever core has been the most idle recently.
3) The above allow various simplifications to thread scheduling. Pinned threads and/or disabled cores are now no longer special cases that need to be dealt with. If a CPU has no threads ready, it looks for another one to steal a thread from, though that part still needs some tuning along with enqueueing for load balancing purposes.
The chief aim here is better load balancing and support for soft affinity. However, at the moment the overall behavior still exhibits some regressions compared to the old scheduler, so it's disabled by default. If you wish to experiment/debug with it, instructions for enabling it can be found in scheduler.cpp. Much thanks to Ingo, Axel and everyone who's helped with either code review/advice or testing so far.
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scheduler_set_thread_priority(). Setting the thread priority was the
only situation in which it was used.
* Renamed scheduler.cpp to scheduler_simple.cpp.
* The scheduler functions are no longer called directly. Instead there's
an operation vector now, which is initialized at kernel init time.
This allows for picking the most suitable scheduler for the machine
(e.g. a non-SMP scheduler on a non-SMP machine).
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scheduler tracing and scheduler analysis code into separate source
files.
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