Specifically, we used to enable the source after locking sched_lock
and just before we had already decided to do a context switch.
This meant that an ithread could never process more than one interrupt
per context switch. Enabling earlier in the loop before sched_lock is
acquired allows an ithread to handle multiple interrupts per context
switch if interrupts fire very rapidly. For the case of heavy interrupt
load this can reduce the number of context switches (and thus overhead)
as well as reduce interrupt latency.
- Now that we can handle multiple interrupts per context switch, add simple
interrupt storm protection to threaded interrupts. If X number of
consecutive interrupts are triggered before the itherad voluntarily
yields to another thread, then the interrupt thread will sleep with the
associated interrupt source disabled (masked) for 1/10th of a second.
The default value of X is 500, but it can be tweaked via the tunable/
sysctl hw.intr_storm_threshold. If an interrupt storm is detected, then
a message is output to the kernel console on the first occurrence per
interrupt thread. Interrupt storm protection can be disabled completely
by setting this value to 0. There is no scientific reasoning for the
1/10th of a second or 500 interrupts values, so they may require tweaking
at some point in the future.
Tested by: rwatson (an earlier version w/o the storm protection)
Tested by: mux (reportedly made a machine with two PCI interrupts
storming usable rather than hard locked)
Reviewed by: imp
SW_INVOL. Assert that one of these is set in mi_switch() and propery
adjust the rusage statistics. This is to simplify the large number of
users of this interface which were previously all required to adjust the
proper counter prior to calling mi_switch(). This also facilitates more
switch and locking optimizations.
- Change all callers of mi_switch() to pass the appropriate paramter and
remove direct references to the process statistics.
ithread_remove_handler() may fail to remove the interrupt handler if
it decides to let the ithread do the removal. The problem is that during
boot "cold" is set, which causes msleep() to return immediately. This
will cause ithread_remove_handler() to fail to wait for the ithread
to do the removal from the handler TAILQ before freeing the handler
back to the heap. Bad things will happen when some other user of the
TAILQ, such as ithread_add_handler() or the actual ithread attempts to use
the freed handler. Fix the problem by forcing ithread_remove_handler()
to do the actual removal itself if the "cold" flag is set.
Reviewed by: jhb
happen in interrupt context; 1) sleep locks, and 2) malloc/free
calls.
1) is fixed by using spin locks instead.
2) is fixed by preallocating a FIFO (implemented with a STAILQ)
and using elements from this FIFO instead. This turns out
to be rather fast.
OK'ed by: re (scottl)
Thanks to: peter, jhb, rwatson, jake
Apologies to: *
let the MD code choose whether or not to implement such a policy. The new
i386 interrupt code allows multiple FAST handlers for a given source for
example. However, the code does not allow FAST and non-FAST handlers to be
mixed.
- Add a DDB function to dump the contents of an ithread and optionally
details about each handler in that ithread. This function can be used
by MD code to implement DDB commands that display information about
interrupt sources and their registered handlers.
I was in two minds as to where to put them in the first case..
I should have listenned to the other mind.
Submitted by: parts by davidxu@
Reviewed by: jeff@ mini@
To fix scsi, don't wait for ithreads if we're dumping, it makes the
debugger sad.
To fix ata, use what appears to be a polling method if we're dumping,
I stole this from tmm but added code to ensure that this change is
only in effect while dumping.
Tested by: des
(sizeof(destination_buffer) - 1) bytes into the destination buffer.
This was not harmful because they currently both provide space for
(MAXCOMLEN + 1) bytes.
doesn't give them enough stack to do much before blowing away the pcb.
This adds MI and MD code to allow the allocation of an alternate kstack
who's size can be speficied when calling kthread_create. Passing the
value 0 prevents the alternate kstack from being created. Note that the
ia64 MD code is missing for now, and PowerPC was only partially written
due to the pmap.c being incomplete there.
Though this patch does not modify anything to make use of the alternate
kstack, acpi and usb are good candidates.
Reviewed by: jake, peter, jhb
Make idle process state more consistant.
Add an assert on thread state.
Clean up idleproc/mi_switch() interaction.
Use a local instead of referencing curthread 7 times in a row
(I've been told curthread can be expensive on some architectures)
Remove some commented out code.
Add a little commented out code (completion coming soon)
Reviewed by: jhb@freebsd.org
The ability to schedule multiple threads per process
(one one cpu) by making ALL system calls optionally asynchronous.
to come: ia64 and power-pc patches, patches for gdb, test program (in tools)
Reviewed by: Almost everyone who counts
(at various times, peter, jhb, matt, alfred, mini, bernd,
and a cast of thousands)
NOTE: this is still Beta code, and contains lots of debugging stuff.
expect slight instability in signals..
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
this is a low-functionality change that changes the kernel to access the main
thread of a process via the linked list of threads rather than
assuming that it is embedded in the process. It IS still embeded there
but remove all teh code that assumes that in preparation for the next commit
which will actually move it out.
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, benno rice,
mutex releases to not require flags for the cases when preemption is
not allowed:
The purpose of the MTX_NOSWITCH and SWI_NOSWITCH flags is to prevent
switching to a higher priority thread on mutex releease and swi schedule,
respectively when that switch is not safe. Now that the critical section
API maintains a per-thread nesting count, the kernel can easily check
whether or not it should switch without relying on flags from the
programmer. This fixes a few bugs in that all current callers of
swi_sched() used SWI_NOSWITCH, when in fact, only the ones called from
fast interrupt handlers and the swi_sched of softclock needed this flag.
Note that to ensure that swi_sched()'s in clock and fast interrupt
handlers do not switch, these handlers have to be explicitly wrapped
in critical_enter/exit pairs. Presently, just wrapping the handlers is
sufficient, but in the future with the fully preemptive kernel, the
interrupt must be EOI'd before critical_exit() is called. (critical_exit()
can switch due to a deferred preemption in a fully preemptive kernel.)
I've tested the changes to the interrupt code on i386 and alpha. I have
not tested ia64, but the interrupt code is almost identical to the alpha
code, so I expect it will work fine. PowerPC and ARM do not yet have
interrupt code in the tree so they shouldn't be broken. Sparc64 is
broken, but that's been ok'd by jake and tmm who will be fixing the
interrupt code for sparc64 shortly.
Reviewed by: peter
Tested on: i386, alpha
Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.
To use this code you must compile a kernel with
options DEVICE_POLLING
and at runtime enable polling with
sysctl kern.polling.enable=1
The percentage of CPU reserved to userland can be set with
sysctl kern.polling.user_frac=NN (default is 50)
while the remainder is used by polling device drivers and netisr's.
These are the only two variables that you should need to touch. There
are a few more parameters in kern.polling but the default values
are adequate for all purposes. See the code in kern_poll.c for
more details on them.
Polling in the idle loop will be implemented shortly by introducing
a kernel thread which does the job. Until then, the amount of CPU
dedicated to polling will never exceed (100-user_frac).
The equivalent (actually, better) code for -stable is at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/
and also supports polling in the idle loop.
NOTE to Alpha developers:
There is really nothing in this code that is i386-specific.
If you move the 2 lines supporting the new option from
sys/conf/{files,options}.i386 to sys/conf/{files,options} I am
pretty sure that this should work on the Alpha as well, just that
I do not have a suitable test box to try it. If someone feels like
trying it, I would appreciate it.
NOTE to other developers:
sure some things could be done better, and as always I am open to
constructive criticism, which a few of you have already given and
I greatly appreciated.
However, before proposing radical architectural changes, please
take some time to possibly try out this code, or at the very least
read the comments in kern_poll.c, especially re. the reason why I
am using a soft netisr and cannot (I believe) replace it with a
simple timeout.
Quick description of files touched by this commit:
sys/conf/files.i386
new file kern/kern_poll.c
sys/conf/options.i386
new option
sys/i386/i386/trap.c
poll in trap (disabled by default)
sys/kern/kern_clock.c
initialization and hardclock hooks.
sys/kern/kern_intr.c
minor swi_net changes
sys/kern/kern_poll.c
the bulk of the code.
sys/net/if.h
new flag
sys/net/if_var.h
declaration for functions used in device drivers.
sys/net/netisr.h
NETISR_POLL
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxpvar.h
sys/pci/if_dc.c
sys/pci/if_dcreg.h
sys/pci/if_sis.c
sys/pci/if_sisreg.h
device driver modifications
In this case, C99's __func__ is properly defined as:
static const char __func__[] = "function-name";
and GCC 3.1 will not allow it to be used in bogus string concatenation.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
the process of exiting the kernel. The ast() function now loops as long
as the PS_ASTPENDING or PS_NEEDRESCHED flags are set. It returns with
preemption disabled so that any further AST's that arrive via an
interrupt will be delayed until the low-level MD code returns to user
mode.
- Use u_int's to store the tick counts for profiling purposes so that we
do not need sched_lock just to read p_sticks. This also closes a
problem where the call to addupc_task() could screw up the arithmetic
due to non-atomic reads of p_sticks.
- Axe need_proftick(), aston(), astoff(), astpending(), need_resched(),
clear_resched(), and resched_wanted() in favor of direct bit operations
on p_sflag.
- Fix up locking with sched_lock some. In addupc_intr(), use sched_lock
to ensure pr_addr and pr_ticks are updated atomically with setting
PS_OWEUPC. In ast() we clear pr_ticks atomically with clearing
PS_OWEUPC. We also do not grab the lock just to test a flag.
- Simplify the handling of Giant in ast() slightly.
Reviewed by: bde (mostly)
