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Author SHA1 Message Date
Attilio Rao
e68ccbe85e Add a comment on why inlining critical_enter() may not be a good idea
for the general case.

Reviewed by:	bde
MFC after:	1 week
2012-12-09 04:54:22 +00:00
Andriy Gapon
5e27a60372 critical_exit: ignore td_owepreempt if kdb_active is set
calling mi_switch in such a context results in a recursion via
kdb_switch

Suggested by:	jhb
Reviewed by:	jhb
MFC after:	5 weeks
2011-12-04 21:27:41 +00:00
John Baldwin
3aa6d94e0c Update several places that iterate over CPUs to use CPU_FOREACH(). 2010-06-11 18:46:34 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
791d9a6e5d - Use DPCPU for SCHED_STATS. This is somewhat awkward because the
offset of the stat is not known until link time so we must emit a
   function to call SYSCTL_ADD_PROC rather than using SYSCTL_PROC
   directly.
 - Eliminate the atomic from SCHED_STAT_INC now that it's using per-cpu
   variables.  Sched stats are always incremented while we're holding
   a spinlock so no further protection is required.

Reviewed by:	sam
2009-06-25 01:33:51 +00:00
Julian Elischer
681e40627d fix typo in runz_fuzz
noticed by:Elijah Buck
2008-05-12 06:42:06 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
8df78c41d6 - Make SCHED_STATS more generic by adding a wrapper to create the
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
2008-04-17 04:20:10 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
9727e63745 - Restore runq to manipulating threads directly by putting runq links and
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
2008-03-20 05:51:16 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
52e95411f8 - Remove the unused and redundant sched_newproc() function.
- Remove the unused and redundant sched_newthread() which peaks into scheduler
   private structures.
2008-03-20 03:09:15 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
a90f3f2547 - Move maybe_preempt() from kern_switch.c to sched_4bsd.c. This is function
is only used by 4bsd.
 - Create a new runq_choose_fuzz() function rather than polluting runq_choose()
   with 4BSD specific code.
 - Move the fuzz sysctl into sched_4bsd.c
 - Remove some dead code from kern_switch.c
2008-03-20 02:14:02 +00:00
Robert Watson
237fdd787b In keeping with style(9)'s recommendations on macros, use a ';'
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
2008-03-16 10:58:09 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
6617724c5f Remove kernel support for M:N threading.
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.
2008-03-12 10:12:01 +00:00
Julian Elischer
431f890614 generally we are interested in what thread did something as
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.
2007-11-14 06:21:24 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
5bce4ae3be - Fix ULE in kernels without PREEMPTION compiled in by always enabling the
critical_exit() owepreempt check.  ULE will always use owepreempt to
   preempt the idle thread.  This change does not effect 4BSD since it will
   never set owepreempt without PREEMPTION enabled.
 - Remove some unused code from choosethread().

Discussed with:	jhb
Approved by:	re
2007-10-08 23:37:28 +00:00
Attilio Rao
c8790f5d09 Fix some entries in the locks static table of witness.
In particular:
- smp_tlb_mtx is no longer used, so it is axed.
- smp rendezvous lock isn't really a leaf spin-mutex. Its bad placement in
  the table, however, has been the source of a false positive LOR reporting
  with the dt_lock.  However, smp rendezvous lock would have had sched_lock
  there for older lock, so it wasn't still a leaf lock.
- allpmaps is only used in ia32 architecture, so it is inserted in the
  appropriate stub.

Addictionally:
- kse_zombie_lock is no longer present, so its definition is axed out.
- zombie_lock doesn't need to have an exported symbol, so just let's it be
  declared as static.

Tested by: kris
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Approved by: re
2007-09-20 20:38:43 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
b61ce5b0e6 - Move all of the PS_ flags into either p_flag or td_flags.
- 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)
2007-09-17 05:31:39 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
67e20930bd - Improve runq_findbit_from() which is used by ULE's circular queue. Mask
of the bits we want to ignore on the first pass rather than doing a
   linear scan.  This puts us within a few instructions of the cost of
   runq_findbit() and removes this function from the top of profiling output
   for context switch heavy workloads.

Approved by:	re
2007-08-20 06:36:12 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
413ea6f543 - Set SW_PREEMPT when we preempt in critical_exit().
Approved by:	re
2007-08-03 23:35:35 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
56696bd1ab - Remove explicit references to sched_lock. A simpler assert will do.
Approved by:	re
2007-07-19 08:58:40 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
671f2709ae - Garbage collect unused concurrency functions. 2007-06-12 19:50:31 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
7b20fb19fb Commit 1/14 of sched_lock decomposition.
- 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)
2007-06-04 23:50:30 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
ed0e8f2fe9 - Change types for necent runq additions to u_char rather than int.
- 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.
2007-02-08 01:52:25 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
f0393f063a - Remove setrunqueue and replace it with direct calls to sched_add().
setrunqueue() was mostly empty.  The few asserts and thread state
   setting were moved to the individual schedulers.  sched_add() was
   chosen to displace it for naming consistency reasons.
 - Remove adjustrunqueue, it was 4 lines of code that was ifdef'd to be
   different on all three schedulers where it was only called in one place
   each.
 - Remove the long ifdef'd out remrunqueue code.
 - Remove the now redundant ts_state.  Inspect the thread state directly.
 - Don't set TSF_* flags from kern_switch.c, we were only doing this to
   support a feature in one scheduler.
 - Change sched_choose() to return a thread rather than a td_sched.  Also,
   rely on the schedulers to return the idlethread.  This simplifies the
   logic in choosethread().  Aside from the run queue links kern_switch.c
   mostly does not care about the contents of td_sched.

Discussed with:	julian

 - Move the idle thread loop into the per scheduler area.  ULE wants to
   do something different from the other schedulers.

Suggested by:	jhb

Tested on:	x86/amd64 sched_{4BSD, ULE, CORE}.
2007-01-23 08:46:51 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
cd49bb7047 - Don't pass a pointer into runq_choose_from(). The caller can adjust the
index if it chooses to.
2007-01-04 12:10:58 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
3fed7d239a - Add three new functions to support circular run queues.
- runq_add_pri allows the caller to position the thread at any rqindex
   regardless of priority.
 - runq_choose_from() chooses the lowest priority thread starting from a given
   index.  The index is updated with the rqindex of the chosen thread.  This
   routine is used to pick the lowest priority relative to a given index.
 - runq_remove_idx() updates the index if the run queue that held the removed
   thread is now empty.
2007-01-04 08:39:58 +00:00
Robert Watson
2da78e3862 Prefer a more traditional spelling of inhibited in comments and panic
messages.
2006-12-31 15:56:04 +00:00
Julian Elischer
ad1e7d285a Threading cleanup.. part 2 of several.
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.
2006-12-06 06:34:57 +00:00
John Birrell
8460a577a4 Make KSE a kernel option, turned on by default in all GENERIC
kernel configs except sun4v (which doesn't process signals properly
with KSE).

Reviewed by:	davidxu@
2006-10-26 21:42:22 +00:00
David Xu
b41f1452d9 Add scheduler CORE, the work I have done half a year ago, recent,
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.
2006-06-13 13:12:56 +00:00
Olivier Houchard
4bb0f51d1d sched_rem() already sets ke->ke_state to KES_THREAD, so there's no need
to redo it.
2006-06-01 22:45:56 +00:00
Alexander Kabaev
3f34977614 Trim trailing whitespace. 2005-12-28 17:13:31 +00:00
Nate Lawson
1335c4df32 Restore KTR_CRITICAL but conditionally compile it in as KTR_SCHED.
Requested by:	scottl, jhb
2005-12-18 18:10:57 +00:00
Nate Lawson
8615fd8696 Clean up unused or poorly utilized KTR values. Remove KTR_FS, KTR_KGDB,
and KTR_IO as they were never used.  Remove KTR_CLK since it was only
used for hardclock firing and use KTR_INTR there instead.  Remove
KTR_CRITICAL since it was only used for crit enter/exit and use
KTR_CONTENTION instead.
2005-12-17 03:57:10 +00:00
David Xu
3c424d1447 In adjustrunqueue(), add code to handle thread migrating case for
ULE scheduler. In original code, local run queue of threaded ksegrp
is corrupted if adjustrunqueue() is called while thread is migrating.
2005-08-03 01:23:45 +00:00
Stephan Uphoff
3ea6bbc59a Restore preemption of idle threads.
Submitted by:	jhb
2005-06-10 03:00:29 +00:00
Stephan Uphoff
a3f2d84279 Lots of whitespace cleanup.
Fix for broken if condition.

Submitted by:	nate@
2005-06-09 19:43:08 +00:00
Stephan Uphoff
f3a0f87396 Fix some race conditions for pinned threads that may cause them to run
on the wrong CPU.

Add IPI support for preempting a thread on another CPU.

MFC after:3 weeks
2005-06-09 18:26:31 +00:00
Stephan Uphoff
d13ec71369 Use low level constructs borrowed from interrupt threads to wait for
work in proc0.
Remove the TDP_WAKEPROC0 workaround.
2005-05-23 23:01:53 +00:00
Stephan Uphoff
503c2ea34d Fix a bug that caused preemption to happen for a thread in the same
ksegrp with the same priority as the currently running thread.
This can cause propagate_priority() to panic.

Pointy hat to: ups
2005-05-19 01:08:30 +00:00
Stephan Uphoff
779186434a Sprinkle some volatile magic and rearrange things a bit to avoid race
conditions in critical_exit now that it no longer blocks interrupts.

Reviewed by:	jhb
2005-04-08 03:37:53 +00:00
John Baldwin
c6a37e8413 Divorce critical sections from spinlocks. Critical sections as denoted by
critical_enter() and critical_exit() are now solely a mechanism for
deferring kernel preemptions.  They no longer have any affect on
interrupts.  This means that standalone critical sections are now very
cheap as they are simply unlocked integer increments and decrements for the
common case.

Spin mutexes now use a separate KPI implemented in MD code: spinlock_enter()
and spinlock_exit().  This KPI is responsible for providing whatever MD
guarantees are needed to ensure that a thread holding a spin lock won't
be preempted by any other code that will try to lock the same lock.  For
now all archs continue to block interrupts in a "spinlock section" as they
did formerly in all critical sections.  Note that I've also taken this
opportunity to push a few things into MD code rather than MI.  For example,
critical_fork_exit() no longer exists.  Instead, MD code ensures that new
threads have the correct state when they are created.  Also, we no longer
try to fixup the idlethreads for APs in MI code.  Instead, each arch sets
the initial curthread and adjusts the state of the idle thread it borrows
in order to perform the initial context switch.

This change is largely a big NOP, but the cleaner separation it provides
will allow for more efficient alternative locking schemes in other parts
of the kernel (bare critical sections rather than per-CPU spin mutexes
for per-CPU data for example).

Reviewed by:	grehan, cognet, arch@, others
Tested on:	i386, alpha, sparc64, powerpc, arm, possibly more
2005-04-04 21:53:56 +00:00
Robert Watson
6220dcba84 Add a read-only kern.sched.preemption sysctl so that user space can tell
if "options PREEMPTION" is compiled into the kernel.
2005-03-20 17:05:12 +00:00
Robert Watson
bc60830675 A further step on the journey of meaking panics and debugging more reliable:
in the window between the beginning of panic() and entering the debugger,
it's possible to receive interrupts.  If we receive an interrupt, don't
preempt if panicstr != NULL, as the system is in the process of failing, and
the preempting thread is likely to stumble over the failure.  The typical
scenario is during the printf() in panic() prior to entering the debugger,
but when running with a slower console type such as serial console.

It could be that the panic string should be passed to the debugger to print,
so that it can run from the debugger's environment rather than a regular
kernel printf.

Glanced at by:	jhb
2005-03-17 15:18:01 +00:00
Warner Losh
9454b2d864 /* -> /*- for copyright notices, minor format tweaks as necessary 2005-01-06 23:35:40 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
85da7a569b - Define KTR points for KTR_SCHED. 2004-12-26 00:14:21 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
7842f65e7f - Garbage collect several unused members of struct kse and struce ksegrp.
As best as I can tell, some of these were never used.
2004-12-14 10:53:55 +00:00
David Schultz
6db36923ad Remove local definitions of RANGEOF() and use __rangeof() instead.
Also remove a few bogus casts.
2004-11-20 23:00:59 +00:00
Robert Watson
f42a43fa2d Add basic critical section tracing to KTR using event type KTR_CRITICAL.
This generates a KTR event for each critical section entered and exited.

It would be desirable to also log the filename and line number of the
source entering or exiting the critical section, but this requires
hacking up the critical section API, so I've not done that yet.
2004-11-07 23:11:32 +00:00
Scott Long
b96741f410 If a process needs to be swapped in, wakeup the swapper from within
critical_exit as the process is getting scheduled to run.  This is subotimal
but for now avoid the LOR between the scheduler and the sleepq systems.
This is a 5.3 candidate.

Submitted by: davidxu
MFC After: 3 days
2004-10-16 06:38:22 +00:00
Stephan Uphoff
7c71b6453a Fix maybe_preempt_in_ksegrp for !SMP.
Tested   by: tegge
Reviewed by: julian
Approved by: sam (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
2004-10-13 22:07:04 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
13e7430fde Make !SMP kernels compile, and as far as I can tell, work again. 2004-10-12 20:57:37 +00:00