in a SMP system. Unexpected things could happen if each cpu
has a different ldt setting and one cpu tries to use value
of currentldt set by another cpu.
The fix is to move currentldt to the per-cpu area. It includes
patches I filed in PR i386/6219 which are also user ldt related.
PR: i386/7591, i386/6219
Submitted by: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
Clean up (or if antipodic: down) some of the msgbuf stuff.
Use an inline function rather than a macro for timecounter delta.
Maintain process "on-cpu" time as 64 bits of microseconds to avoid
needless second rollover overhead.
Avoid calling microuptime the second time in mi_switch() if we do
not pass through _idle in cpu_switch()
This should reduce our context-switch overhead a bit, in particular
on pre-P5 and SMP systems.
WARNING: Programs which muck about with struct proc in userland
will have to be fixed.
Reviewed, but found imperfect by: bde
available. The per-cpu variable ss_tpr has been replaced by ss_eflags.
This reduced the number of interrupts sent to the wrong CPU, due to
the cpu having the global lock being inside a critical region.
Remove some unneeded manipulation of tpr register in mplock.s.
Adjust code in mplock.s to be aware of variables on the stack being
destroyed by MPgetlock if GRAB_LOPRIO is defined.
Mike Smith
Poul-Henning Kamp
Tor Egge
Peter Wemm