include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
the caller to specify a function to be guarded between an entry and exit
barrier, as well as pre- and post-barrier functions.
The primary use for this function is synchronised update of per-cpu private
data. The implementation is almost (but not quite) MI; with a better
mechanism for masking per-CPU interrupts it could probably be hoisted.
Reviewed by: peter (partially)
Interrupts under the new scheme are managed by the i386 nexus with the
awareness of the resource manager. There is further room for optimizing
the interfaces still. All the users of register_intr()/intr_create()
should be gone, with the exception of pcic and i386/isa/clock.c.
`void *' arg. Fixed or hid most of the resulting type mismatches.
Handlers can now be updated locally (except for reworking their
global declarations in isa_device.h).
a test of the irq number, and made failure of this test non-fatal.
Removed related unused complications for the APIC_IO case. Removed the
no-test3 flag.
Deverbosified the failure messages for the other tests. Removed the
per-port verbose flag - just use the general verbose flag.
interrupts are masked, and EOI is sent iff the corresponding ISR bit
is set in the local apic. If the CPU cannot obtain the interrupt
service lock (currently the global kernel lock) the interrupt is
forwarded to the CPU holding that lock.
Clock interrupts now have higher priority than other slow interrupts.
the signal handling latency for cpu-bound processes that performs very
few system calls.
The IPI for forcing an additional software trap is no longer dependent upon
BETTER_CLOCK being defined.
Wrappered and enabled by the define BETTER_CLOCK (on by default in smpyests.h)
apic_vector.s also contains a small change I (smp) made to eliminate
the double level INT problem. It seems stable, but I haven't the tools
in place to prove it fixes the problem.
Reviewed by: smp@csn.net
Submitted by: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.no>
- added Xcpustop IPI code to support stop_cpus()/restart_cpus().
it is off by default, enable via smptests.h:TEST_CPUSTOP
intr_machdep.h:
- moved +ICULEN to lower level.
- added entry for Xcpustop.
