Also, add a comment mentioning _PSD - on some systems it's enough to
put one logical CPU into a particular P-state to make other CPUs in
the same domain to enter that P-state.
Also, call sched_unbind() after the loop - sched_bind() automatically
rebinds from previous CPU to a new one, and the new arrangement of code
is safer against early loop exit.
Plus one minor style nit.
MFC after: 10 days
- Register APIC enumerators at SI_SUB_TUNABLES - 1 instead of SI_SUB_CPU - 1.
- Probe CPUs at SI_SUB_TUNABLES - 1. This allows i386 to set a truly
accurate mp_maxid value rather than always setting it to MAXCPU - 1.
local APIC if those LVT entries are valid. This quiets spurious illegal
register local APIC errors during boot on a CPU that doesn't support those
vectors.
MFC after: 1 week
- Use > 2^32 - 1 instead of >= when checking for memory regions above 4G.
- Skip SMAP entries > 4G on i386 rather than breaking out of the loop
since SMAP entries are not guaranteed to be in order.
- Remove 'i' and loop over 'rid' directly in the dump_avail[] case.
- Only check for 4G regions in the dump_avail[] case on i386 if PAE is
enabled since vm_paddr_t is 32-bit in the !PAE case.
Submitted by: alc
- Rename RES_BUS_SPACE_* into BUS_SPACE_* for consistency
- Trim out an unnecessary checking condition
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Requested and reviewed by: jhb
Old scrolls tell that once upon a time IBM AT BIOS was known to put some
useful system diagnostic information into RTC NVRAM. It is not really
known if and for how long PC BIOSes followed that convention, but I
believe that many, if not all, modern BIOSes do not do that any more
(not mentioning other types of x86 firmware).
Some diagnostic bits don't even make any sense any longer.
The check results in confusing messages upon boot on some systems.
So I am removing it.
Discussed with: bde, jhb, mav
MFC after: 3 weeks
not neccessary. It allows to avoid time counter jump of up to 1/18s, when
base frequency slightly tuned via machdep.i8254_freq sysctl.
Fix few style things.
Suggested by: bde
Unluckily, using one-shot mode is impossible, when same hardware used for
time counting. Introduce new tunable hint.attimer.0.timecounter, setting
which to 0 disables i8254 time counter and allows one-shot mode. Note,
that on some systems there may be no other reliable enough time counters,
so this tunable should be used with understanding.
The main goal of this is to generate timer interrupts only when there is
some work to do. When CPU is busy interrupts are generating at full rate
of hz + stathz to fullfill scheduler and timekeeping requirements. But
when CPU is idle, only minimum set of interrupts (down to 8 interrupts per
second per CPU now), needed to handle scheduled callouts is executed.
This allows significantly increase idle CPU sleep time, increasing effect
of static power-saving technologies. Also it should reduce host CPU load
on virtualized systems, when guest system is idle.
There is set of tunables, also available as writable sysctls, allowing to
control wanted event timer subsystem behavior:
kern.eventtimer.timer - allows to choose event timer hardware to use.
On x86 there is up to 4 different kinds of timers. Depending on whether
chosen timer is per-CPU, behavior of other options slightly differs.
kern.eventtimer.periodic - allows to choose periodic and one-shot
operation mode. In periodic mode, current timer hardware taken as the only
source of time for time events. This mode is quite alike to previous kernel
behavior. One-shot mode instead uses currently selected time counter
hardware to schedule all needed events one by one and program timer to
generate interrupt exactly in specified time. Default value depends of
chosen timer capabilities, but one-shot mode is preferred, until other is
forced by user or hardware.
kern.eventtimer.singlemul - in periodic mode specifies how much times
higher timer frequency should be, to not strictly alias hardclock() and
statclock() events. Default values are 2 and 4, but could be reduced to 1
if extra interrupts are unwanted.
kern.eventtimer.idletick - makes each CPU to receive every timer interrupt
independently of whether they busy or not. By default this options is
disabled. If chosen timer is per-CPU and runs in periodic mode, this option
has no effect - all interrupts are generating.
As soon as this patch modifies cpu_idle() on some platforms, I have also
refactored one on x86. Now it makes use of MONITOR/MWAIT instrunctions
(if supported) under high sleep/wakeup rate, as fast alternative to other
methods. It allows SMP scheduler to wake up sleeping CPUs much faster
without using IPI, significantly increasing performance on some highly
task-switching loads.
Tested by: many (on i386, amd64, sparc64 and powerc)
H/W donated by: Gheorghe Ardelean
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
"uncore" devices (such as the memory controller) in that socket. Stop
hardcoding support for two busses, but instead start probing buses at
domain 0, bus 255 and walk down until a bus probe fails. Also, do not probe
a bus if it has already been enumerated elsewhere (e.g. if ACPI ever
enumerates these buses in the future).
provide PCI devices for various hardware such as memory controllers, etc.
These PCI buses are not enumerated via ACPI however. Add qpi(4) psuedo
bus and Host-PCI bridge drivers to enumerate these buses. Currently the
driver uses the CPU ID to determine the bridges' presence.
In collaboration with: Joseph Golio @ Isilon Systems
MFC after: 2 weeks
lengths. Make MI wrapper code to validate periods in request. Make kernel
clock management code to honor these hardware limitations while choosing hz,
stathz and profhz values.
HPET to steal IRQ0 from i8254 and IRQ8 from RTC timers. It can be suitable
for HPETs without FSB interrupts support, as it gives them two unshared
IRQs. It allows them to provide one per-CPU event timer on dual-CPU system,
that should be suitable for further tickless kernels.
To enable it, such lines may be added to /boot/loader.conf:
hint.atrtc.0.clock=0
hint.attimer.0.clock=0
hint.hpet.0.legacy_route=1
