am now able to run 32 cores ok.. but I still will hang
on buildworld with a NFS problem. I suspect I am missing
a patch for the netlogic rge driver.
JC check and see if I am missing anything except your
core-mask changes
Obtained from: JC
In the case of the thread being on a sleepqueue or a turnstile, the
sched_lock was acquired (without the aid of the td_lock interface) and
the td_lock was dropped. This was going to break locking rules on other
threads willing to access to the thread (via the td_lock interface) and
modify his flags (allowed as long as the container lock was different
by the one used in sched_switch).
In order to prevent this situation, while sched_lock is acquired there
the td_lock gets blocked. [0]
- Merge the ULE's internal function thread_block_switch() into the global
thread_lock_block() and make the former semantic as the default for
thread_lock_block(). This means that thread_lock_block() will not
disable interrupts when called (and consequently thread_unlock_block()
will not re-enabled them when called). This should be done manually
when necessary.
Note, however, that ULE's thread_unblock_switch() is not reaped
because it does reflect a difference in semantic due in ULE (the
td_lock may not be necessarilly still blocked_lock when calling this).
While asymmetric, it does describe a remarkable difference in semantic
that is good to keep in mind.
[0] Reported by: Kohji Okuno
<okuno dot kohji at jp dot panasonic dot com>
Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra
<giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>
MFC: 2 weeks
or equial then PSOCK, not less or equial. Higher priority has lesser
numerical value.
Existing test does not allow for swapout of the thread waiting for
advisory lock, for exiting child or sleeping for timeout. On the other
hand, high-priority waiters of VFS/VM events can be swapped out.
Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
of the last tick we incremented on.
Submitted by: matthew.fleming/at/isilon.com, is/at/rambler-co.ru
Reviewed by: jeff (who thinks there should be a better way in the future)
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
MFC after: 3 weeks
This improvements aims for avoiding further cache-misses in scheduler
specific functions which need to keep track of average thread running
time and further locking in places setting for this flag.
Reported by: jeff (originally), kris (currently)
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: Giuseppe Cocomazzi <sbudella at email dot it>
- In 8.x and above the run-queue locks are nomore shared even in the
HTT case, so remove the special case.
- The deadlock explained in the removed comment here is still possible
even with different locks, with the contribution of tdq_lock_pair().
An explanation is here:
(hypotesis: a thread needs to migrate on another CPU, thread1 is doing
sched_switch_migrate() and thread2 is the one handling the sched_switch()
request or in other words, thread1 is the thread that needs to migrate
and thread2 is a thread that is going to be preempted, most likely an
idle thread. Also, 'old' is referred to the context (in terms of
run-queue and CPU) thread1 is leaving and 'new' is referred to the
context thread1 is going into. Finally, thread3 is doing tdq_idletd()
or sched_balance() and definitively doing tdq_lock_pair())
* thread1 blocks its td_lock. Now td_lock is 'blocked'
* thread1 drops its old runqueue lock
* thread1 acquires the new runqueue lock
* thread1 adds itself to the new runqueue and sends an IPI_PREEMPT
through tdq_notify() to the new CPU
* thread1 drops the new lock
* thread3, scanning the runqueues, locks the old lock
* thread2 received the IPI_PREEMPT and does thread_lock() with td_lock
pointing to the new runqueue
* thread3 wants to acquire the new runqueue lock, but it can't because
it is held by thread2 so it spins
* thread1 wants to acquire old lock, but as long as it is held by
thread3 it can't
* thread2 going further, at some point wants to switchin in thread1,
but it will wait forever because thread1->td_lock is in blocked state
This deadlock has been manifested mostly on 7.x and reported several time
on mailing lists under the voice 'spinlock held too long'.
Many thanks to des@ for having worked hard on producing suitable textdumps
and Jeff for help on the comment wording.
Reviewed by: jeff
Reported by: des, others
Tested by: des, Giovanni Trematerra
<giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>
(STABLE_7 based version)
and it only optimized out an ipi or mwait in very few cases.
- Skip the adaptive idle code when running on SMT or HTT cores. This
just wastes cpu time that could be used on a busy thread on the same
core.
- Rename CG_FLAG_THREAD to CG_FLAG_SMT to be more descriptive. Re-use
CG_FLAG_THREAD to mean SMT or HTT.
Sponsored by: Nokia
is calculated as 0 which causes errors elsewhere.
Submitted by: KOIE Hidetaka <koie@suri.co.jp>
- When sched_affinity() is called with a thread that is not curthread we
need to handle the ON_RUNQ() case by adding the thread to the correct
run queue.
Submitted by: Justin Teller <justin.teller@gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 Week
sizeof("MAXCPU") being used to calculate a string length rather than
something more reasonable such as sizeof("32"). This shouldn't have
caused any ill effect until we run on machines with 1000000 or more
cpus.
with src/tools/sched/schedgraph.py. This allows developers to quickly
create a graphical view of ktr data for any resource in the system.
- Add sched_tdname() and the pcpu field 'name' for quickly and uniformly
identifying records associated with a thread or cpu.
- Reimplement the KTR_SCHED traces using the new generic facility.
Obtained from: attilio
Discussed with: jhb
Sponsored by: Nokia
usable for newer CPUs. The new value allows 2 x quad core configuration
dumps to fit within the initial buffer without reallocations.
Approved by: gnn (mentor) (older version)
Pointed out by: rdivacky
dump of detected ULE CPU topology. This dump can be used to check the
topology detection and for general system information.
An example of CPU topology dump is:
kern.sched.topology_spec: <groups>
<group level="1" cache-level="0">
<cpu count="8" mask="0xff">0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7</cpu>
<flags></flags>
<children>
<group level="2" cache-level="0">
<cpu count="4" mask="0xf">0, 1, 2, 3</cpu>
<flags></flags>
</group>
<group level="2" cache-level="0">
<cpu count="4" mask="0xf0">4, 5, 6, 7</cpu>
<flags></flags>
</group>
</children>
</group>
</groups>
Reviewed by: jeff
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
sched_tick() to prevent multiple increments for one tick. This pushes
the value out of range and breaks priority calculation.
Reviewed by: kib
Found by: pho/nokia
Sponsored by: Nokia
MFC after: 3 days
from idle over the next tick.
- Add a new MD routine, cpu_wake_idle() to wakeup idle threads who are
suspended in cpu specific states. This function can fail and cause the
scheduler to fall back to another mechanism (ipi).
- Implement support for mwait in cpu_idle() on i386/amd64 machines that
support it. mwait is a higher performance way to synchronize cpus
as compared to hlt & ipis.
- Allow selecting the idle routine by name via sysctl machdep.idle. This
replaces machdep.cpu_idle_hlt. Only idle routines supported by the
current machine are permitted.
Sponsored by: Nokia
two ticks by counting the number of switches and the load when
sched_clock() is called.
- If the busy metric exceeds a threshold allow the idle thread to spin
waiting for new work for a brief period to avoid using IPIs. This
reduces the cost on the sender and receiver as well as reducing wakeup
latency considerably when it works.
Sponsored by: Nokia
variables and sysctl nodes.
- In reset walk the children of kern_sched_stats and reset the counters
via the oid_arg1 pointer. This allows us to add arbitrary counters to
the tree and still reset them properly.
- Define a set of switch types to be passed with flags to mi_switch().
These types are named SWT_*. These types correspond to SCHED_STATS
counters and are automatically handled in this way.
- Make the new SWT_ types more specific than the older switch stats.
There are now stats for idle switches, remote idle wakeups, remote
preemption ithreads idling, etc.
- Add switch statistics for ULE's pickcpu algorithm. These stats include
how much migration there is, how often affinity was successful, how
often threads were migrated to the local cpu on wakeup, etc.
Sponsored by: Nokia
o Implement IPI_PREEMPT,
o Set td_lock for the thread being switched out,
o For ULE & SMP, loop while td_lock points to blocked_lock for
the thread being switched in,
o Enable ULE by default in GENERIC and SKI,
fixed pri boost with '1' or any priority less than the current thread's
priority with a value greater than two. Default the boost to
PRI_MIN_TIMESHARE to prevent regular user-space threads from starving
threads in the kernel. This prevents these user-threads from also
being scheduled as if they are high fixed-priority kernel threads.
- Restore the setting of lowpri in tdq_choose(). It has to be either here
or in sched_switch(). I accidentally removed it from both places.
Tested by: kris
do this either. Simply check P_NOLOAD. It'd be nice if this was
in a thread flag so we didn't have an extra cache miss every time we
add and remove a thread from the run-queue.
rqindex back in struct thread.
- Compile kern_switch.c independently again and stop #include'ing it from
schedulers.
- Remove the ts_thread backpointers and convert most code to go from
struct thread to struct td_sched.
- Cleanup the ts_flags #define garbage that was causing us to sometimes
do things that expanded to td->td_sched->ts_thread->td_flags in 4BSD.
- Export the kern.sched sysctl node in sysctl.h
requiring the per-process spinlock to only requiring the process lock.
- Reflect these changes in the proc.h documentation and consumers throughout
the kernel. This is a substantial reduction in locking cost for these
fields and was made possible by recent changes to threading support.
after each SYSINIT() macro invocation. This makes a number of
lightweight C parsers much happier with the FreeBSD kernel
source, including cflow's prcc and lxr.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: imp, rink
While the KSE project was quite successful in bringing threading to
FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the kse library was never developed
to its full potential. Backwards compatibility will be provided via
libmap.conf for dynamically linked binaries and static binaries will
be broken.
sched_sleep(). This removes extra thread_lock() acquisition and
allows the scheduler to decide what to do with the static boost.
- Change the priority arguments to cv_* to match sleepq/msleep/etc.
where 0 means no priority change. Catch -1 in cv_broadcastpri() and
convert it to 0 for now.
- Set a flag when sleeping in a way that is compatible with swapping
since direct priority comparisons are meaningless now.
- Add a sysctl to ule, kern.sched.static_boost, that defaults to on which
controls the boost behavior. Turning it off gives better performance
in some workloads but needs more investigation.
- While we're modifying sleepq, change signal and broadcast to both
return with the lock held as the lock was held on enter.
Reviewed by: jhb, peter
tdq_runq_add to select the runq rather than hoping we set it properly
when we adjusted the priority. This involves the same number of
branches as before so should perform identically without the extra
fragility.
Tested by: bz
Reviewed by: bz
- Only calculate timeshare priorities once per tick or when a thread is woken
from sleeping.
- Keep the ts_runq pointer valid after all priority changes.
- Call tdq_runq_add() directly from sched_switch() without passing in via
tdq_add(). We don't need to adjust loads or runqs anymore.
- Sort tdq and ts_sched according to utilization to improve cache behavior.
Sponsored by: Nokia
- Normalize the preemption/ipi setting code by introducing sched_shouldpreempt()
so the logical is identical and not repeated between tdq_notify() and
sched_setpreempt().
- In tdq_notify() don't set NEEDRESCHED as we may not actually own the thread lock
this could have caused us to lose td_flags settings.
- Garbage collect some tunables that are no longer relevant.
- When searching for affinity search backwards in the tree from the last
cpu we ran on while the thread still has affinity for the group. This
can take advantage of knowledge of shared L2 or L3 caches among a
group of cores.
- When searching for the least loaded cpu find the least loaded cpu via
the least loaded path through the tree. This load balances system bus
links, individual cache levels, and hyper-threaded/SMT cores.
- Make the periodic balancer recursively balance the highest and lowest
loaded cpu across each link.
Add support for cpusets:
- Convert the cpuset to a simple native cpumask_t while the kernel still
only supports cpumask.
- Pass the derived cpumask down through the cpu_search functions to
restrict the result cpus.
- Make the various steal functions resilient to failure since all threads
can not run on all cpus any longer.
General improvements:
- Precisely track the lowest priority thread on every runq with
tdq_setlowpri(). Before it was more advisory but this ended up having
pathological behaviors.
- Remove many #ifdef SMP conditions to simplify the code.
- Get rid of the old cumbersome tdq_group. This is more naturally
expressed via the cpu_group tree.
Sponsored by: Nokia
Testing by: kris
tree structure that encodes the level of cache sharing and other
properties.
- Provide several convenience functions for creating one and two level
cpu trees as well as a default flat topology. The system now always
has some topology.
- On i386 and amd64 create a seperate level in the hierarchy for HTT
and multi-core cpus. This will allow the scheduler to intelligently
load balance non-uniform cores. Presently we don't detect what level
of the cache hierarchy is shared at each level in the topology.
- Add a mechanism for testing common topologies that have more information
than the MD code is able to provide via the kern.smp.topology tunable.
This should be considered a debugging tool only and not a stable api.
Sponsored by: Nokia
a run-queue. If the priority is numerically raised only change lowpri
if we're certain it will be correct. Some slop is allowed however
previously we could erroneously raise lowpri for an idle cpu that a
thread had recently run on which lead to errors in load balancing
decisions.
lowest priority on the queue for the current cpu vs curthread's
priority. In the case that curthread is waking up many threads of a
lower priority as would happen with a turnstile_broadcast() or wakeup()
of many threads this prevents them from all ending up on the current cpu.
- In sched_add() make the relationship between a scheduled ithread and
the current cpu advisory rather than strict. Only give the ithread
affinity for the current cpu if it's actually being scheduled from
a hardware interrupt. This prevents it from migrating when it simply
blocks on a lock.
Sponsored by: Nokia
the ABI when enabled. There is no longer an embedded lock_profile_object
in each lock. Instead a list of lock_profile_objects is kept per-thread
for each lock it may own. The cnt_hold statistic is now always 0 to
facilitate this.
- Support shared locking by tracking individual lock instances and
statistics in the per-thread per-instance lock_profile_object.
- Make the lock profiling hash table a per-cpu singly linked list with a
per-cpu static lock_prof allocator. This removes the need for an array
of spinlocks and reduces cache contention between cores.
- Use a seperate hash for spinlocks and other locks so that only a
critical_enter() is required and not a spinlock_enter() to modify the
per-cpu tables.
- Count time spent spinning in the lock statistics.
- Remove the LOCK_PROFILE_SHARED option as it is always supported now.
- Specifically drop and release the scheduler locks in both schedulers
since we track owners now.
In collaboration with: Kip Macy
Sponsored by: Nokia
opposed to what process. Since threads by default have teh name of the
process unless over-written with more useful information, just print the
thread name instead.
kern/sched_ule.c - Add __powerpc__ to the list of supported architectures
powerpc/conf/GENERIC - Swap SCHED_4BSD with SCHED_ULE
powerpc/powerpc/genassym.c - Export TD_LOCK field of thread struct
powerpc/powerpc/swtch.S - Handle new 3rd parameter to cpu_switch() by
updating the old thread's lock. Note: uniprocessor-only, will require
modification for MP support.
powerpc/powerpc/vm_machdep.c - Set 3rd param of cpu_switch to mutex of
old thread's lock, making the call a no-op.
Reviewed by: marcel, jeffr (slightly older version)
fixes a bug on UP machines with SMP kernels where the idle thread
constantly switches after trying to steal work from the local cpu.
- Make the idle stealing code more robust against self selection.
- Prefer to steal from the cpu with the highest load that has at least one
transferable thread. Before we selected the cpu with the highest
transferable count which excludes bound threads.
Collaborated with: csjp
Approved by: re
to simply switch rather than lowering priority and switching. This allows
threads of equal priority to run but not lesser priority.
Discussed with: davidxu
Reported by: NIIMI Satoshi <sa2c@sa2c.net>
Approved by: re
after the switch leads to a race where the outgoing thread still owns
the local queue lock while another cpu may switch it in. This race
is only possible on machines where cpu_switch can take significantly
longer on different cpus which in practice means HTT machines with
unfair thread scheduling algorithms.
Found by: kris (of course)
Approved by: re
starvation caused by unbalanced interrupt loads.
- Change the rebalancer to work on stathz ticks but retain randomization.
- Simplify locking in tdq_idled() to use the tdq_lock_pair() rather than
complex sequences of locks to avoid deadlock.
Reported by: kris
Approved by: re
value for kern.sched.preempt_thresh appropriately. It can still by
adjusted at runtime. ULE will still use IPI_PREEMPT in certain
migration situations.
- Assert that we're not trying to compile ULE on an unsupported
architecture. To date, I believe only i386 and amd64 have implemented
the third cpu switch argument required.
Approved by: re
- Improve load long-term load balancer by always IPIing exactly once.
Previously the delay after rebalancing could cause problems with
uneven workloads.
- Allow nice to have a linear effect on the interactivity score. This
allows negatively niced programs to stay interactive longer. It may be
useful with very expensive Xorg servers under high loads. In general
it should not be necessary to alter the nice level to improve interactive
response. We may also want to consider never allowing positively niced
processes to become interactive at all.
- Initialize ccpu to 0 rather than 0.0. The decimal point was leftover
from when the code was copied from 4bsd. ccpu is 0 in ULE because ULE
only exports weighted cpu values.
Reported by: Steve Kargl (Load balancing problem)
Approved by: re
changes the units from seconds to the value of 'ticks' when swapped
in/out. ULE does not have a periodic timer that scans all threads in
the system and as such maintaining a per-second counter is difficult.
- Change computations requiring the unit in seconds to subtract ticks
and divide by hz. This does make the wraparound condition hz times
more frequent but this is still in the range of several months to
years and the adverse effects are minimal.
Approved by: re
- p_sflag was mostly protected by PROC_LOCK rather than the PROC_SLOCK or
previously the sched_lock. These bugs have existed for some time.
- Allow swapout to try each thread in a process individually and then
swapin the whole process if any of these fail. This allows us to move
most scheduler related swap flags into td_flags.
- Keep ki_sflag for backwards compat but change all in source tools to
use the new and more correct location of P_INMEM.
Reported by: pho
Reviewed by: attilio, kib
Approved by: re (kensmith)
on 2cpu machines by reducing it to 1 by default. This improves loaded
operation on 8cpu machines by increasing it to 3 where the extra idle
time is not as critical.
Approved by: re
tdq_group structure. Hyper-threaded cores won't really benefit from
seperate locks anyway.
- Seperate out the migration case from sched_switch to simplify the main
switch code. We only migrate here if called via sched_bind().
- When preempted place the preempted thread back in the same queue at
the head.
- Improve the cpu group and topology infrastructure.
Tested by: many on current@
Approved by: re
machines.
- Leave the long-term load balancer running by default once per second.
- Enable stealing load from the idle thread only when the remote processor
has more than two transferable tasks. Setting this to one further
improves buildworld. Setting it higher improves mysql.
- Remove the bogus pick_zero option. I had not intended to commit this.
- Entirely disallow migration for threads with SRQ_YIELDING set. This
balances out the extra migration allowed for with the load balancers.
It also makes pick_pri perform better as I had anticipated.
Tested by: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Approved by: re
properly. We have to temporarily unlock the TDQ lock so we can lock
the thread and add it to the run queue. This is used only for KSE.
- When we add a thread from the tdq_move() via sched_balance() we need to
ipi the target if it's sitting in the idle thread or it'll never run.
Reported by: Rene Landan
Approved by: re
been in development for over 6 months as SCHED_SMP.
- Implement one spin lock per thread-queue. Threads assigned to a
run-queue point to this lock via td_lock.
- Improve the facility for assigning threads to CPUs now that sched_lock
contention no longer dominates scheduling decisions on larger SMP
machines.
- Re-write idle time stealing in an attempt to make it less damaging to
general performance. This is still disabled by default. See
kern.sched.steal_idle.
- Call the long-term load balancer from a callout rather than sched_clock()
so there are no locks held. This is disabled by default. See
kern.sched.balance.
- Parameterize many scheduling decisions via sysctls. Try to document
these via sysctl descriptions.
- General structural and naming cleanups.
- Document each function with comments.
Tested by: current@ amd64, x86, UP, SMP.
Approved by: re
- In tdq_choose() only assert that a thread does not have too high a
priority (low value) for the queue we removed it from. This will catch
bugs in priority elevation. It's not a serious error for the thread
to have too low a priority as we don't change queues in this case as
an optimization.
Reported by: kris
- Move all scheduler locking into the schedulers utilizing a technique
similar to solaris's container locking.
- A per-process spinlock is now used to protect the queue of threads,
thread count, suspension count, p_sflags, and other process
related scheduling fields.
- The new thread lock is actually a pointer to a spinlock for the
container that the thread is currently owned by. The container may
be a turnstile, sleepqueue, or run queue.
- thread_lock() is now used to protect access to thread related scheduling
fields. thread_unlock() unlocks the lock and thread_set_lock()
implements the transition from one lock to another.
- A new "blocked_lock" is used in cases where it is not safe to hold the
actual thread's lock yet we must prevent access to the thread.
- sched_throw() and sched_fork_exit() are introduced to allow the
schedulers to fix-up locking at these points.
- Add some minor infrastructure for optionally exporting scheduler
statistics that were invaluable in solving performance problems with
this patch. Generally these statistics allow you to differentiate
between different causes of context switches.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
unsigned char. Weirdly, casting the 1 constant to u_char still produces
a signed integer result that is then used in the % computation. This
avoids that mess all together and causes a 0 pri to turn into 255 % 64
as we expect.
Reported by: kkenn (about 4 times, thanks)
a thread is an idle thread, just see if it has the IDLETD
flag set. That flag will probably move to the pflags word
as it's permenent and never chenges for the life of the
system so it doesn't need locking.
- only collect timestamps when a lock is contested - this reduces the overhead
of collecting profiles from 20x to 5x
- remove unused function from subr_lock.c
- generalize cnt_hold and cnt_lock statistics to be kept for all locks
- NOTE: rwlock profiling generates invalid statistics (and most likely always has)
someone familiar with that should review
- Fix these types in ULE as well. This fixes bugs in priority index
calculations in certain edge cases. (int)-1 % 64 != (uint)-1 % 64.
Reported by: kkenn using pho's stress2.
minimize IPIs and rescheduling when scheduling like tasks while keeping
latency low for important threads.
1) An idle thread is running.
2) The current thread is worse than realtime and the new thread is
better than realtime. Realtime to realtime doesn't preempt.
3) The new thread's priority is less than the threshold.
support sched_4bsd.
- Rename the KTR level for non schedgraph parsed events. They take event
space from things we'd like to graph.
- Reset our slice value after we sleep. The slice is simply there to
prevent starvation among equal priorities. A thread which had almost
exhausted it's slice and then slept doesn't need to be rescheduled a
tick after it wakes up.
- Set the maximum slice value to a more conservative 100ms now that it is
more accurately enforced.
negative. Use unsigned integers for sleep and run time so this doesn't
disturb sched_interact_score(). This should fix the invalid interactive
priority panics reported by several users.
- Define our own maybe_preempt() as sched_preempt(). We want to be able
to preempt idlethread in all cases.
- Define our idlethread to require preemption to exit.
- Get the cpu estimation tick from sched_tick() so we don't have to worry
about errors from a sampling interval that differs from the time
domain. This was the source of sched_priority prints/panics and
inaccurate pctcpu display in top.
a power saving mode otherwise.
- If the thread is already bound in sched_bind() unbind it before
re-binding it to a new cpu. I don't like these semantics but they are
expected by some code in the tree. Patch by jkoshy.
the ipi settings. If NEEDRESCHED is set and an ipi is later delivered
it will clear it rather than cause extra context switches. However, if
we miss setting it we can have terrible latency.
- In sched_bind() correctly implement bind. Also be slightly more
tolerant of code which calls bind multiple times. However, we don't
change binding if another call is made with a different cpu. This
does not presently work with hwpmc which I believe should be changed.
- Switch back to direct modification of remote CPU run queues. This added
a lot of complexity with questionable gain. It's easy enough to
reimplement if it's shown to help on huge machines.
- Re-implement the old tdq_transfer() call as tdq_pickidle(). Change
sched_add() so we have selectable cpu choosers and simplify the logic
a bit here.
- Implement tdq_pickpri() as the new default cpu chooser. This algorithm
is similar to Solaris in that it tries to always run the threads with
the best priorities. It is actually slightly more complex than
solaris's algorithm because we also tend to favor the local cpu over
other cpus which has a boost in latency but also potentially enables
cache sharing between the waking thread and the woken thread.
- Add a bunch of tunables that can be used to measure effects of different
load balancing strategies. Most of these will go away once the
algorithm is more definite.
- Add a new mechanism to steal threads from busy cpus when we idle. This
is enabled with kern.sched.steal_busy and kern.sched.busy_thresh. The
threshold is the required length of a tdq's run queue before another
cpu will be able to steal runnable threads. This prevents most queue
imbalances that contribute the long latencies.
of max() when computing the divisor in SCHED_TICK_PRI(). This prevents
cases where rounding down would allow the quotient to exceed
SCHED_PRI_RANGE.
- Garbage collect some unused flags and fields.
- Replace TDF_HOLD with sched_pin_td()/sched_unpin_td() since it simply
duplicated this functionality.
- Re-enable the rebalancer by default and fix the sysctl so it can be
modified.
marked idle, thus breaking cpu load balancing.
- Change sched_interact_update() to fix cases where the stored history
has expanded significantly rather than handling them in the callers. This
fixes a case where sched_priority() could compute a bad value.
- Add a sysctl to disable the global load balancer for experimentation.
setting ftick = ltick = ticks in schedinit().
- Update the priority when we are pulled off of the run queue and when we
are inserted onto the run queue so that it more accurately reflects our
present status. This is important for efficient priority propagation
functioning.
- Move the frequency test into sched_pctcpu_update() so we don't repeat it
each time we'd like to call it.
- Put some temporary work-around code in sched_priority() in case the tick
mechanism produces a bad priority. Eventually this should revert to an
assert again.
the most recently chosen index. This significantly improves nice
behavior. This allows a lower priority thread to run some multiple of
times before the higher priority thread makes it to the front of
the queue. A nice +20 cpu hog now only gets ~5% of the cpu when running
with a nice 0 cpu hog and about 1.5% with a nice -20 hog. A nice
difference of 1 makes a 4% difference in cpu usage between two hogs.
- Track a seperate insert and removal index. When the removal index is
empty it is updated to point at the current insert index.
- Don't remove and re-add a thread to the runq when it is being adjusted
down in priority.
- Pull some conditional code out of sched_tick(). It's looking a bit
large now.
- Remove the double queue mechanism for timeshare threads. It was slow
due to excess cache lines in play, caused suboptimal scheduling behavior
with niced and other non-interactive processes, complicated priority
lending, etc.
- Use a circular queue with a floating starting index for timeshare threads.
Enforces fairness by moving the insertion point closer to threads with
worse priorities over time.
- Give interactive timeshare threads real-time user-space priorities and
place them on the realtime/ithd queue.
- Select non-interactive timeshare thread priorities based on their cpu
utilization over the last 10 seconds combined with the nice value. This
gives us more sane priorities and behavior in a loaded system as
compared to the old method of using the interactivity score. The
interactive score quickly hit a ceiling if threads were non-interactive
and penalized new hog threads.
- Use one slice size for all threads. The slice is not currently
dynamically set to adjust scheduling behavior of different threads.
- Add some new sysctls for scheduling parameters.
Bug fixes/Clean up:
- Fix zeroing of td_sched after initialization in sched_fork_thread() caused
by recent ksegrp removal.
- Fix KSE interactivity issues related to frequent forking and exiting of
kse threads. We simply disable the penalty for thread creation and exit
for kse threads.
- Cleanup the cpu estimator by using tickincr here as well. Keep ticks and
ltick/ftick in the same frequency. Previously ticks were stathz and
others were hz.
- Lots of new and updated comments.
- Many many others.
Tested on: up x86/amd64, 8way amd64.
Make part of John Birrell's KSE patch permanent..
Specifically, remove:
Any reference of the ksegrp structure. This feature was
never fully utilised and made things overly complicated.
All code in the scheduler that tried to make threaded programs
fair to unthreaded programs. Libpthread processes will already
do this to some extent and libthr processes already disable it.
Also:
Since this makes such a big change to the scheduler(s), take the opportunity
to rename some structures and elements that had to be moved anyhow.
This makes the code a lot more readable.
The ULE scheduler compiles again but I have no idea if it works.
The 4bsd scheduler still reqires a little cleaning and some functions that now do
ALMOST nothing will go away, but I thought I'd do that as a separate commit.
Tested by David Xu, and Dan Eischen using libthr and libpthread.
yield() and sched_yield() syscalls. Every scheduler has its own way
to relinquish cpu, the ULE and CORE schedulers have two internal run-
queues, a timesharing thread which calls yield() syscall should be
moved to inactive queue.
I picked it up again. The scheduler is forked from ULE, but the
algorithm to detect an interactive process is almost completely
different with ULE, it comes from Linux paper "Understanding the
Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU Scheduler", although I still use same word
"score" as a priority boost in ULE scheduler.
Briefly, the scheduler has following characteristic:
1. Timesharing process's nice value is seriously respected,
timeslice and interaction detecting algorithm are based
on nice value.
2. per-cpu scheduling queue and load balancing.
3. O(1) scheduling.
4. Some cpu affinity code in wakeup path.
5. Support POSIX SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR.
Unlike scheduler 4BSD and ULE which using fuzzy RQ_PPQ, the scheduler
uses 256 priority queues. Unlike ULE which using pull and push, the
scheduelr uses pull method, the main reason is to let relative idle
cpu do the work, but current the whole scheduler is protected by the
big sched_lock, so the benefit is not visible, it really can be worse
than nothing because all other cpu are locked out when we are doing
balancing work, which the 4BSD scheduelr does not have this problem.
The scheduler does not support hyperthreading very well, in fact,
the scheduler does not make the difference between physical CPU and
logical CPU, this should be improved in feature. The scheduler has
priority inversion problem on MP machine, it is not good for
realtime scheduling, it can cause realtime process starving.
As a result, it seems the MySQL super-smack runs better on my
Pentium-D machine when using libthr, despite on UP or SMP kernel.
a thread holding critical resource, e.g mutex or other implicit
synchronous flags. Give thread which exceeds nice threshold a minimum
time slice.
PR: kern/86087
as this happens via thread_switchout(). I don't particularly like the
structure of the code here. We twice call out to thread code when
a thread is voluntarily switching. Once to thread_switchout() and once
to slot_fill(), while sched_4BSD does even more work which is redundant
to select another thread to use our remaining slice. This should be
simplified in the future, but for now I'm only going to fix the bug not
the bad design.
slot for us. Previously, we would take two slots on every preempt, and
setrunqueue() would fix it up for us in the non threaded case. The
threaded case was simply broken.
- Clean up flags, prototypes, comments.
schedulers a bit to ensure more correct handling of priorities and fewer
priority inversions:
- Add two functions to the sched(9) API to handle priority lending:
sched_lend_prio() and sched_unlend_prio(). The turnstile code uses these
functions to ask the scheduler to lend a thread a set priority and to
tell the scheduler when it thinks it is ok for a thread to stop borrowing
priority. The unlend case is slightly complex in that the turnstile code
tells the scheduler what the minimum priority of the thread needs to be
to satisfy the requirements of any other threads blocked on locks owned
by the thread in question. The scheduler then decides where the thread
can go back to normal mode (if it's normal priority is high enough to
satisfy the pending lock requests) or it it should continue to use the
priority specified to the sched_unlend_prio() call. This involves adding
a new per-thread flag TDF_BORROWING that replaces the ULE-only kse flag
for priority elevation.
- Schedulers now refuse to lower the priority of a thread that is currently
borrowing another therad's priority.
- If a scheduler changes the priority of a thread that is currently sitting
on a turnstile, it will call a new function turnstile_adjust() to inform
the turnstile code of the change. This function resorts the thread on
the priority list of the turnstile if needed, and if the thread ends up
at the head of the list (due to having the highest priority) and its
priority was raised, then it will propagate that new priority to the
owner of the lock it is blocked on.
Some additional fixes specific to the 4BSD scheduler include:
- Common code for updating the priority of a thread when the user priority
of its associated kse group has been consolidated in a new static
function resetpriority_thread(). One change to this function is that
it will now only adjust the priority of a thread if it already has a
time sharing priority, thus preserving any boosts from a tsleep() until
the thread returns to userland. Also, resetpriority() no longer calls
maybe_resched() on each thread in the group. Instead, the code calling
resetpriority() is responsible for calling resetpriority_thread() on
any threads that need to be updated.
- schedcpu() now uses resetpriority_thread() instead of just calling
sched_prio() directly after it updates a kse group's user priority.
- sched_clock() now uses resetpriority_thread() rather than writing
directly to td_priority.
- sched_nice() now updates all the priorities of the threads after the
group priority has been adjusted.
Discussed with: bde
Reviewed by: ups, jeffr
Tested on: 4bsd, ule
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
- Remove the sched_add wrapper that used sched_add_internal() as a backend.
Its only purpose was to interpret one flag and turn it into an int. Do
the right thing and interpret the flag in sched_add() instead.
- Pass the flag argument to sched_add() to kseq_runq_add() so that we can
get the SRQ_PREEMPT optimization too.
- Add a KEF_INTERNAL flag. If KEF_INTERNAL is set we don't adjust the SLOT
counts, otherwise the slot counts are adjusted as soon as we enter
sched_add() or sched_rem() rather than when the thread is actually placed
on the run queue. This greatly simplifies the handling of slots.
- Remove the explicit prevention of migration for ithreads on non-x86
platforms. This was never shown to have any real benefit.
- Remove the unused class argument to KSE_CAN_MIGRATE().
- Add ktr points for thread migration events.
- Fix a long standing bug on platforms which don't initialize the cpu
topology. The ksg_maxid variable was never correctly set on these
platforms which caused the long term load balancer to never inspect
more than the first group or processor.
- Fix another bug which prevented the long term load balancer from working
properly. If stathz != hz we can't expect sched_clock() to be called
on the exact tick count that we're anticipating.
- Rearrange sched_switch() a bit to reduce indentation levels.
nice of 0. Doing so can cause an infinite loop because they should be
running, but a nice -20 process could prevent them from doing so.
- Add a new flag KEF_PRIOELEV to flag a thread that has had its priority
elevated due to priority propagation. If a thread has had its priority
elevated, we assume that it must go on the current queue and it must
get a slice.
- In sched_userret() if our priority was elevated and we shouldn't have
a timeslice, yield here until we should.
Found/Tested by: glebius
outside of the nice threshold due to a recently awoken thread with a
lower nice value. This further reduces the amount of time a positively
niced thread gets while running in conjunction with a workload that has
many short sleeps (ie buildworld).
check for TD_ON_RUNQ() no longer means the thread is really on a run-
queue. I suspect this state should be re-evaluated as it must mean
something else now. This fixes ULE+KSE+PREEMPTION on UP x86.
fully initialed when the pmap layer tries to call sched_pini() early in the
boot and results in an quick panic. Use ke_pinned instead as was originally
done with Tor's patch.
Approved by: julian
scheduler specific extension to it. Put it in the extension as
the implimentation details of how the pinning is done needn't be visible
outside the scheduler.
Submitted by: tegge (of course!) (with changes)
MFC after: 3 days
but with slightly cleaned up interfaces.
The KSE structure has become the same as the "per thread scheduler
private data" structure. In order to not make the diffs too great
one is #defined as the other at this time.
The KSE (or td_sched) structure is now allocated per thread and has no
allocation code of its own.
Concurrency for a KSEGRP is now kept track of via a simple pair of counters
rather than using KSE structures as tokens.
Since the KSE structure is different in each scheduler, kern_switch.c
is now included at the end of each scheduler. Nothing outside the
scheduler knows the contents of the KSE (aka td_sched) structure.
The fields in the ksegrp structure that are to do with the scheduler's
queueing mechanisms are now moved to the kg_sched structure.
(per ksegrp scheduler private data structure). In other words how the
scheduler queues and keeps track of threads is no-one's business except
the scheduler's. This should allow people to write experimental
schedulers with completely different internal structuring.
A scheduler call sched_set_concurrency(kg, N) has been added that
notifies teh scheduler that no more than N threads from that ksegrp
should be allowed to be on concurrently scheduled. This is also
used to enforce 'fainess' at this time so that a ksegrp with
10000 threads can not swamp a the run queue and force out a process
with 1 thread, since the current code will not set the concurrency above
NCPU, and both schedulers will not allow more than that many
onto the system run queue at a time. Each scheduler should eventualy develop
their own methods to do this now that they are effectively separated.
Rejig libthr's kernel interface to follow the same code paths as
linkse for scope system threads. This has slightly hurt libthr's performance
but I will work to recover as much of it as I can.
Thread exit code has been cleaned up greatly.
exit and exec code now transitions a process back to
'standard non-threaded mode' before taking the next step.
Reviewed by: scottl, peter
MFC after: 1 week
FULL_PREEMPTION is defined. Add a runtime warning to ULE if PREEMPTION is
enabled (code inspired by the PREEMPTION warning in kern_switch.c). This
is a possible MT5 candidate.
preemption and/or the rev 1.79 kern_switch.c change that was backed out.
The thread was being assigned to a runq without adding in the load, which
would cause the counter to hit -1.
migration. Use this in sched_prio() and sched_switch() to stop us from
migrating threads that are in short term sleeps or are runnable. These
extra migrations were added in the patches to support KSE.
- Only set NEEDRESCHED if the thread we're adding in sched_add() is a
lower priority and is being placed on the current queue.
- Fix some minor whitespace problems.
contributed to the transferable load count. This prevents any potential
problems with sched_pin() being used around calls to setrunqueue().
- Change the sched_add() load balancing algorithm to try to migrate on
wakeup. This attempts to place threads that communicate with each other
on the same CPU.
- Don't clear the idle counts in kseq_transfer(), let the cpus do that when
they call sched_add() from kseq_assign().
- Correct a few out of date comments.
- Make sure the ke_cpu field is correct when we preempt.
- Call kseq_assign() from sched_clock() to catch any assignments that were
done without IPI. Presently all assignments are done with an IPI, but I'm
trying a patch that limits that.
- Don't migrate a thread if it is still runnable in sched_add(). Previously,
this could only happen for KSE threads, but due to changes to
sched_switch() all threads went through this path.
- Remove some code that was added with preemption but is not necessary.
specify "us" as the thread not the process/ksegrp/kse.
You can always find the others from the thread but the converse is not true.
Theorotically this would lead to runtime being allocated to the wrong
entity in some cases though it is not clear how often this actually happenned.
(would only affect threaded processes and would probably be pretty benign,
but it WAS a bug..)
Reviewed by: peter
since they are only accessed by curthread and thus do not need any
locking.
- Move pr_addr and pr_ticks out of struct uprof (which is per-process)
and directly into struct thread as td_profil_addr and td_profil_ticks
as these variables are really per-thread. (They are used to defer an
addupc_intr() that was too "hard" until ast()).
takes an argument to specify if it should preempt or not. Don't preempt
when sched_add_internal() is called from kseq_idled() or kseq_assign()
as in those cases we are about to call mi_switch() anyways. Also, doing
so during the first context switch on an AP leads to a NULL pointer deref
because curthread is NULL.
- Reenable preemption for ULE.
Submitted by: Taku YAMAMOTO taku at tackymt.homeip.net
hangs due to recent preemption changes. This change appears to remove
the panic that I was running into, but at the cost of increasing
ithread scheduling latency, and as such is a temporary band-aid until
jhb has a chance to resolve the ule<->preemption interaction that is
the source of the problem. If it doesn't fix the problem for others--
sorry!
introduced a KSE_CAN_MIGRATE() invocation with one argument
missing (class). Either this is a genuine forget or it crept
in from JHB's repo where he may have modified it. If it's
the latter then it may require more attention. For now fix
the make depend.
than as one-off hacks in various other parts of the kernel:
- Add a function maybe_preempt() that is called from sched_add() to
determine if a thread about to be added to a run queue should be
preempted to directly. If it is not safe to preempt or if the new
thread does not have a high enough priority, then the function returns
false and sched_add() adds the thread to the run queue. If the thread
should be preempted to but the current thread is in a nested critical
section, then the flag TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set and the thread is added
to the run queue. Otherwise, mi_switch() is called immediately and the
thread is never added to the run queue since it is switch to directly.
When exiting an outermost critical section, if TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set,
then clear it and call mi_switch() to perform the deferred preemption.
- Remove explicit preemption from ithread_schedule() as calling
setrunqueue() now does all the correct work. This also removes the
do_switch argument from ithread_schedule().
- Do not use the manual preemption code in mtx_unlock if the architecture
supports native preemption.
- Don't call mi_switch() in a loop during shutdown to give ithreads a
chance to run if the architecture supports native preemption since
the ithreads will just preempt DELAY().
- Don't call mi_switch() from the page zeroing idle thread for
architectures that support native preemption as it is unnecessary.
- Native preemption is enabled on the same archs that supported ithread
preemption, namely alpha, i386, and amd64.
This change should largely be a NOP for the default case as committed
except that we will do fewer context switches in a few cases and will
avoid the run queues completely when preempting.
Approved by: scottl (with his re@ hat)
switch to. If a non-NULL thread pointer is passed in, then the CPU will
switch to that thread directly rather than calling choosethread() to pick
a thread to choose to.
- Make sched_switch() aware of idle threads and know to do
TD_SET_CAN_RUN() instead of sticking them on the run queue rather than
requiring all callers of mi_switch() to know to do this if they can be
called from an idlethread.
- Move constants for arguments to mi_switch() and thread_single() out of
the middle of the function prototypes and up above into their own
section.
sched_clock() rather than using callouts. This means we no longer have to
take the load of the callout thread into consideration while balancing and
should make the balancing decisions simpler and more accurate.
Tested on: x86/UP, amd64/SMP
sched_ule, in January 2004. Looking at this, "pagezero" is (one of) the
culprit(s). We had no provision for processes with P_NOLOAD set. With
pagezero not running at PRI_ITHD, kseq_load_{add,rem} count pagezero as
another-normal-process, thus the "expected-plus-one" load reported in
the above thread.
Submitted by: Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr>
SCHED_INTERACT_MAX was used where SCHED_SLP_RUN_MAX was needed. This was
causing the interactivity scaler to lose history at a more dramatic rate
than intended.
long as there are still explicit uses of int, whether in types or
in function names (such as atomic_set_int() in sched_ule.c), we can
not change cpumask_t to be anything other than u_int. See also the
commit log for sys/sys/types.h, revision 1.84.
activation (i.e., applications are using libpthread). This is because
SCHED_ULE sometimes puts P_SA processes into ksq_next unnecessarily.
Which doesn't give fair amount of CPU time to processes which are
using scheduler-activation-based threads when other (semi-)CPU-intensive,
non-P_SA processes are running.
Further work will no doubt be done by jeffr at a later date.
Submitted by: Taku YAMAMOTO <taku@cent.saitama-u.ac.jp>
Reviewed by: rwatson, freebsd-current@
sleep queue interface:
- Sleep queues attempt to merge some of the benefits of both sleep queues
and condition variables. Having sleep qeueus in a hash table avoids
having to allocate a queue head for each wait channel. Thus, struct cv
has shrunk down to just a single char * pointer now. However, the
hash table does not hold threads directly, but queue heads. This means
that once you have located a queue in the hash bucket, you no longer have
to walk the rest of the hash chain looking for threads. Instead, you have
a list of all the threads sleeping on that wait channel.
- Outside of the sleepq code and the sleep/cv code the kernel no longer
differentiates between cv's and sleep/wakeup. For example, calls to
abortsleep() and cv_abort() are replaced with a call to sleepq_abort().
Thus, the TDF_CVWAITQ flag is removed. Also, calls to unsleep() and
cv_waitq_remove() have been replaced with calls to sleepq_remove().
- The sched_sleep() function no longer accepts a priority argument as
sleep's no longer inherently bump the priority. Instead, this is soley
a propery of msleep() which explicitly calls sched_prio() before
blocking.
- The TDF_ONSLEEPQ flag has been dropped as it was never used. The
associated TDF_SET_ONSLEEPQ and TDF_CLR_ON_SLEEPQ macros have also been
dropped and replaced with a single explicit clearing of td_wchan.
TD_SET_ONSLEEPQ() would really have only made sense if it had taken
the wait channel and message as arguments anyway. Now that that only
happens in one place, a macro would be overkill.
track the load for the sched_load() function. In the SMP case this member
is not defined because it would be redundant with the ksg_load member
which already tracks the non ithd load.
- For sched_load() in the UP case simply return ksq_sysload. In the SMP
case traverse the list of kseq groups and sum up their ksg_load fields.
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.
cpu could have been bogged down with non-transferable load and still not
migrated a new thread to an idle cpu. This required some benchmarking and
tuning to get right as the comment above it suggests.
- In sched_add(), do the idle check prior to the transfer check so that we
don't try to transfer load from an idle cpu. This fixes panics caused by
IPIs on UP machines running SMP kernels.
Reported/Debugged by: seanc
- The new sched_balance_groups() function does intra-group balancing while
sched_balance() balances the available groups.
- Pick a random time between 0 ticks and hz * 2 ticks to restart each
balancing process. Each balancer has its own timeout.
- Pick a random place in the list of groups to start the search for lowest
and highest group loads. This prevents us from prefering a group based on
numeric position.
- Use a nasty hack to stop us from preferring cpu 0. The problem is that
softclock always runs on cpu 0, so it always has a little extra load. We
ignore this load in the balancer for now. In the future softclock should
run on a random cpu and these hacks can go away.
cpu are added to a group.
- Don't place a cpu into the kseq_idle bitmask until all cpus in that group
have idled.
- Prefer idle groups over idle group members in the new kseq_transfer()
function. In this way we will prefer to balance load across full cores
rather than add further load a partial core.
- Before a cpu goes idle, check the other group members for threads. Since
SMT cpus may freely share threads, this is cheap.
- SMT cores may be individually pinned and bound to now. This contrasts the
old mechanism where binding or pinning would have allowed a thread to run
on any available cpu.
- Remove some unnecessary logic from sched_switch(). Priority propagation
should be properly taken care of in sched_prio() now.
Be sure to shift (long)1 << 33 and higher, not (int)1. Otherwise bad
things happen(TM). This is why beast.freebsd.org paniced with ULE.
Reviewed by: jeff
1) mp_maxid is a valid FreeBSD CPU ID in the range 0 .. MAXCPU - 1.
2) For all active CPUs in the system, PCPU_GET(cpuid) <= mp_maxid.
Approved by: re (scottl)
Tested on: i386, amd64, alpha
kses from the run queues. Also, on SMP, we track the transferable
count here. Threads are transferable only as long as they are on the
run queue.
- Previously, we adjusted our load balancing based on the transferable count
minus the number of actual cpus. This was done to account for the threads
which were likely to be running. All of this logic is simpler now that
transferable accounts for only those threads which can actually be taken.
Updated various places in sched_add() and kseq_balance() to account for
this.
- Rename kseq_{add,rem} to kseq_load_{add,rem} to reflect what they're
really doing. The load is accounted for seperately from the runq because
the load is accounted for even as the thread is running.
- Fix a bug in sched_class() where we weren't properly using the PRI_BASE()
version of the kg_pri_class.
- Add a large comment that describes the impact of a seemingly simple
conditional in sched_add().
- Also in sched_add() check the transferable count and KSE_CAN_MIGRATE()
prior to checking kseq_idle. This reduces the frequency of access for
kseq_idle which is a shared resource.
idle. They figure out that we're idle fast enough that the cache pollution
introduces by scanning their run queue is more expensive than waiting
a little longer.
- Add kseq_setidle() to mark us as being idle. Use this in place of
kseq_find().
- Remove kseq_load_highest(), kseq_find() was the only consumer of this
interface. kseq_balance() has it's own customized version that finds the
lowest and highest loads simultaneously.
Continuously told that this would be faster by: terry
the total load, the timeshare load, and the number of threads that can
be migrated to another cpu. Account for these seperately.
- Introduce a KSE_CAN_MIGRATE() macro which determines whether or not a KSE
can be migrated to another CPU. Currently, this only checks to see if
we're an interrupt handler. Eventually this will also be used to support
CPU binding.
slice assignment. Add a comment describing what it does.
- Remove a stale XXX comment, the nice should not impact the interactivity,
nice adjustments only effect non-interactive tasks in ULE.
- Don't allow nice -20 tasks to totally starve nice 0 tasks. Give them at
least SCHED_SLICE_MIN ticks. We still allow nice 0 tasks to starve nice
+20 tasks as intended.
- SCHED_PRI_NRESV does not have the off by one error in PRIO_TOTAL so we
do not have to account for it in the few places that we use it.
Requested by: bde
0 and SCHED_SLP_RUN_MAX * 2. This allows us to simplify the algorithm
quite a bit. Before, it dealt with arbitrary values which required us
to do nasty integer division tricks that didn't quite work out correctly.
- Chnage sched_wakeup() to detect conditions where the slp+runtime could
exceed SCHED_SLP_RUN_MAX * 2. This can happen if we go to sleep for
longer than 6 seconds. In this case, we'll just clear the runtime and
set the sleep time to the max.
- Define a new function, sched_interact_fork() which updates the slp+runtime
of a newly forked thread. We want to limit the amount of history retained
from the parent so that we learn the child's behavior quickly. We don't,
however want to decay it to nothing. Previously, we would simply divide
each parameter by 100 whenever we forked. After a few forks the values
would reach 0 and tasks would not be considered interactive.
- Add another KTR entry, cleanup some existing entries.
- Remove a useless sched_interact_update() from sched_priority(). This is
already done by the callers that require it.
- Add an IPI based mechanism for migrating kses. This mechanism is
broken down into several components. This is intended to reduce cache
thrashing by eliminating most cases where one cpu touches another's
run queues.
- kseq_notify() appends a kse to a lockless singly linked list and
conditionally sends an IPI to the target processor. Right now this is
protected by sched_lock but at some point I'd like to get rid of the
global lock. This is why I used something more complicated than a
standard queue.
- kseq_assign() processes our list of kses that have been assigned to us
by other processors. This simply calls sched_add() for each item on the
list after clearing the new KEF_ASSIGNED flag. This flag is used to
indicate that we have been appeneded to the assigned queue but not
added to the run queue yet.
- In sched_add(), instead of adding a KSE to another processor's queue we
use kse_notify() so that we don't touch their queue. Also in sched_add(),
if KEF_ASSIGNED is already set return immediately. This can happen if
a thread is removed and readded so that the priority is recorded properly.
- In sched_rem() return immediately if KEF_ASSIGNED is set. All callers
immediately readd simply to adjust priorites etc.
- In sched_choose(), if we're running an IDLE task or the per cpu idle thread
set our cpumask bit in 'kseq_idle' so that other processors may know that
we are idle. Before this, make a single pass through the run queues of
other processors so that we may find work more immediately if it is
available.
- In sched_runnable(), don't scan each processor's run queue, they will IPI
us if they have work for us to do.
- In sched_add(), if we're adding a thread that can be migrated and we have
plenty of work to do, try to migrate the thread to an idle kseq.
- Simplify the logic in sched_prio() and take the KEF_ASSIGNED flag into
consideration.
- No longer use kseq_choose() to steal threads, it can lose it's last
argument.
- Create a new function runq_steal() which operates like runq_choose() but
skips threads based on some criteria. Currently it will not steal
PRI_ITHD threads. In the future this will be used for CPU binding.
- Create a kseq_steal() that checks each run queue with runq_steal(), use
kseq_steal() in the places where we used kseq_choose() to steal with
before.
