went backwards when interrupts were masked for more than one i8254
interrupt period. It sometimes went backwards when the i8254 counter
was reprogrammed. Neither of these should happen in normal operation.
Update the i8254 timecounter support variables atomically. Calling
timecounter functions from fast interrupt handlers may actually work
in all cases now.
and use this when masking/unmasking interrupts.
Maintain a mapping from (iopaic number, int pin) tuple to irq number,
and use this when configuring devices and programming the ioapics.
Previous code assumed that irq number was equal to int pin number, and
that the ioapic number was 0.
Don't let an AP enter _cpu_switch before all local apics are initialized.
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
"time" wasn't a atomic variable, so splfoo() protection were needed
around any access to it, unless you just wanted the seconds part.
Most uses of time.tv_sec now uses the new variable time_second instead.
gettime() changed to getmicrotime(0.
Remove a couple of unneeded splfoo() protections, the new getmicrotime()
is atomic, (until Bruce sets a breakpoint in it).
A couple of places needed random data, so use read_random() instead
of mucking about with time which isn't random.
Add a new nfs_curusec() function.
Mark a couple of bogosities involving the now disappeard time variable.
Update ffs_update() to avoid the weird "== &time" checks, by fixing the
one remaining call that passwd &time as args.
Change profiling in ncr.c to use ticks instead of time. Resolution is
the same.
Add new function "tvtohz()" to avoid the bogus "splfoo(), add time, call
hzto() which subtracts time" sequences.
Reviewed by: bde
on the IOAPIC being connected to the 8254 timer interrupt.
Verify that timer interrupts are delivered. If they aren't, attempt
a fallback to mixed mode (i.e. routing the timer interrupt via the 8259 PIC).
it runs at a constant frequency. This was less of an issue before,
because the TSC only interpolated in the HZ intervals, but now where
the timecounter is used all the way, this becomes much more visible.
Nit: Fix a printf which triggered the bde-filter.
Highlights:
* Simple model for underlying hardware.
* Hardware basis for timekeeping can be changed on the fly.
* Only one hardware clock responsible for TOD keeping.
* Provides a real nanotime() function.
* Time granularity: .232E-18 seconds.
* Frequency granularity: .238E-12 s/s
* Frequency adjustment is continuous in time.
* Less overhead for frequency adjustment.
* Improves xntpd performance.
Reviewed by: bde, bde, bde
is "acquired". This fixes a TSC biasing error of about 10 msec when
pcaudio is active.
Update `time' before calling hardclock() when timer0 is being released.
This is not known to be important.
Added some delays in writertc(). Efficiency is not critical here, unlike
in rtcin(), and we already use conservative delays there.
Don't touch the hardware when machdep.i8254_freq is being changed but
the maximum count wouldn't change. This fixes jitter of up to 10 msec
for most small adjustments to machdep.i8254_freq. When the maximum
count needs to change, the hardware should be adjusted more carefully.
in <machine/cpu.h>. Moved the declarations to <machine/cputypes.h>.
Fixed style bugs in the moved code. Fixed everything that depended on
the nested include. Don't include <machine/cpu.h> (in the changed files)
unless something in it is used directly.
Add a simplelock to deal with disable_intr()/enable_intr() as used in UP kernel.
UP kernel expects that this is enough to guarantee exclusive access to
regions of code bracketed by these 2 functions.
Add a simplelock to bracket clock accesses in clock.c: clock_lock.
Help from: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Made NEW_STRATEGY default.
Removed misc. old cruft.
Centralized simple locks into mp_machdep.c
Centralized simple lock macros into param.h
More cleanup in the direction of making splxx()/cpl MP-safe.
- removed TEST_ALTTIMER.
- removed APIC_PIN0_TIMER.
- removed TIMER_ALL.
apic_vector.s:
- new algorithm where a CPU uses try_mplock instead of get_mplock:
if successful continue as before.
if fail set ipending bit, mask INT (to avoid recursion), cleanup & iret.
This allows the CPU to return to successful work, while the ISR will be run
by the CPU holding the lock as part of the doreti dance.
simplifies some assumptions and stops some code compile problems.
This should fix the compile hiccup in PR#3491, but smp kernel profiling
isn't likely to be fixed by this.
There are various options documented in i386/conf/LINT, there is more to
come over the next few days.
The kernel should run pretty much "as before" without the options to
activate SMP mode.
There are a handful of known "loose ends" that need to be fixed, but
have been put off since the SMP kernel is in a moderately good condition
at the moment.
This commit is the result of the tinkering and testing over the last 14
months by many people. A special thanks to Steve Passe for implementing
the APIC code!
