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Mateusz Guzik
6fed89b179 kern: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files 2020-09-01 22:12:32 +00:00
Alexander Motin
aba10e131f Allow swi_sched() to be called from NMI context.
For purposes of handling hardware error reported via NMIs I need a way to
escape NMI context, being too restrictive to do something significant.

To do it this change introduces new swi_sched() flag SWI_FROMNMI, making
it careful about used KPIs.  On platforms allowing IPI sending from NMI
context (x86 for now) it immediately wakes clk_intr_event via new IPI_SWI,
otherwise it works just like SWI_DELAY.  To handle the delayed SWIs this
patch calls clk_intr_event on every hardclock() tick.

MFC after:	2 weeks
Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25754
2020-07-25 15:19:38 +00:00
Jason A. Harmening
8abaf6a7c8 deadlkres: include thread name in panic messages
Reviewed by:	markj
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24235
2020-04-01 04:51:39 +00:00
Pawel Biernacki
7029da5c36 Mark more nodes as CTLFLAG_MPSAFE or CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT (17 of many)
r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.

This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.

Mark all obvious cases as MPSAFE.  All entries that haven't been marked
as MPSAFE before are by default marked as NEEDGIANT

Approved by:	kib (mentor, blanket)
Commented by:	kib, gallatin, melifaro
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23718
2020-02-26 14:26:36 +00:00
Conrad Meyer
fea73412a0 sleep(9), sleepqueue(9): const'ify wchan pointers
_sleep(9), wakeup(9), sleepqueue(9), et al do not dereference or modify the
channel pointers provided in any way; they are merely used as intptrs into a
dictionary structure to match waiters with wakers.  Correctly annotate this
such that _sleep() and wakeup() may be used on const pointers without
invoking ugly patterns like __DECONST().  Plumb const through all of the
underlying sleepqueue bits.

No functional change.

Reviewed by:	rlibby
Discussed with:	kib, markj
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22914
2019-12-24 16:19:33 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
61a74c5ccd schedlock 1/4
Eliminate recursion from most thread_lock consumers.  Return from
sched_add() without the thread_lock held.  This eliminates unnecessary
atomics and lock word loads as well as reducing the hold time for
scheduler locks.  This will eventually allow for lockless remote adds.

Discussed with:	kib
Reviewed by:	jhb
Tested by:	pho
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22626
2019-12-15 21:11:15 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
c3cccf95bf Handle multiple clock interrupts simultaneously in sched_clock().
Reviewed by:	kib, markj, mav
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22625
2019-12-08 01:17:38 +00:00
Alexander Motin
c80038a0a7 Update td_runtime of running thread on each statclock().
Normally td_runtime is updated on context switch, but there are some kernel
threads that due to high absolute priority may run for many seconds without
context switches (yes, that is bad, but that is true), which means their
td_runtime was not updated all that time, that made them invisible for top
other then as some general CPU usage.

MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.
2019-06-14 01:09:10 +00:00
Conrad Meyer
e2e050c8ef Extract eventfilter declarations to sys/_eventfilter.h
This allows replacing "sys/eventfilter.h" includes with "sys/_eventfilter.h"
in other header files (e.g., sys/{bus,conf,cpu}.h) and reduces header
pollution substantially.

EVENTHANDLER_DECLARE and EVENTHANDLER_LIST_DECLAREs were moved out of .c
files into appropriate headers (e.g., sys/proc.h, powernv/opal.h).

As a side effect of reduced header pollution, many .c files and headers no
longer contain needed definitions.  The remainder of the patch addresses
adding appropriate includes to fix those files.

LOCK_DEBUG and LOCK_FILE_LINE_ARG are moved to sys/_lock.h, as required by
sys/mutex.h since r326106 (but silently protected by header pollution prior
to this change).

No functional change (intended).  Of course, any out of tree modules that
relied on header pollution for sys/eventhandler.h, sys/lock.h, or
sys/mutex.h inclusion need to be fixed.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
2019-05-20 00:38:23 +00:00
Mateusz Guzik
3277792bde Tidy up hardclock.
- use fcmpset for updating ticks
- move (rarely used) itimer handling to a dedicated function

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2018-11-29 03:44:02 +00:00
Mark Johnston
cc4f3d0ae2 Rename hardclock_cnt() to hardclock() and remove the old implementation.
Also remove some related and unused subroutines.  They have long been
replaced by variants that handle multiple coalesced events with a single
call.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed by:	cem, kib
Approved by:	re (gjb)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17029
2018-09-06 02:10:59 +00:00
Andrew Turner
2bf9501287 Create a new macro for static DPCPU data.
On arm64 (and possible other architectures) we are unable to use static
DPCPU data in kernel modules. This is because the compiler will generate
PC-relative accesses, however the runtime-linker expects to be able to
relocate these.

In preparation to fix this create two macros depending on if the data is
global or static.

Reviewed by:	bz, emaste, markj
Sponsored by:	ABT Systems Ltd
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16140
2018-07-05 17:13:37 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
1534cd19b5 Split up deadlkres() to make it more readable in anticipation of
further changes adding another level of indentation.

Some of the logic got simplified with the break out functions.
There should be no functional changes.

Reviewed by:	kib
Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.
Differential Revision:		https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15914
2018-07-05 17:06:54 +00:00
Matt Macy
a5f1042498 epoch: skip poll function call in hardclock unless there are callbacks pending
Reported by:	mjg
Approved by:	sbruno
2018-05-17 21:39:15 +00:00
Matt Macy
c4d901e9bd epoch(9): schedule pcpu callback task in hardclock if there are callbacks pending
Approved by:	sbruno
2018-05-17 19:57:07 +00:00
Mike Karels
d626b50b9d make SW_WATCHDOG dynamic
Enable the hardclock-based watchdog previously conditional on the
SW_WATCHDOG option whenever hardware watchdogs are not found, and
watchdogd attempts to enable the watchdog. The SW_WATCHDOG option
still causes the sofware watchdog to be enabled even if there is a
hardware watchdog. This does not change the other software-based
watchdog enabled by the --softtimeout option to watchdogd.

Note that the code to reprime the watchdog during kernel core dumps is
no longer conditional on SW_WATCHDOG. I think this was previously a bug.

Reviewed by:	imp alfred bjk
MFC after:	1 week
Relnotes:	yes
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13713
2018-01-03 00:56:30 +00:00
Nathan Whitehorn
efe67753cc Remove some, but not all, assumptions that the BSP is CPU 0 and that CPUs
are numbered densely from there to n_cpus.

MFC after:	1 month
2017-11-25 23:41:05 +00:00
Pedro F. Giffuni
51369649b0 sys: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
2017-11-20 19:43:44 +00:00
Ed Maste
3e85b721d6 Remove register keyword from sys/ and ANSIfy prototypes
A long long time ago the register keyword told the compiler to store
the corresponding variable in a CPU register, but it is not relevant
for any compiler used in the FreeBSD world today.

ANSIfy related prototypes while here.

Reviewed by:	cem, jhb
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10193
2017-05-17 00:34:34 +00:00
John Baldwin
5d8cce1764 Initialize 'ticks' earlier in boot after 'hz' is set.
This avoids the time-warp after kthreads have started running and the
required fixup to td_slptick and td_blktick in the EARLY_AP_STARTUP
case.  Now, 'ticks' is initialized before any kthreads are created or
any context switches are performed.

Tested by:	gavin
MFC after:	2 weeks
Sponsored by:	Netflix
2016-11-22 01:02:59 +00:00
Ed Maste
69a2875821 Renumber license clauses in sys/kern to avoid skipping #3 2016-09-15 13:16:20 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
5760b029ee Prevent parallel tc_windup() calls, both parallel top-level calls from
setclock() and from simultaneous top-level and interrupt.  For this,
tc_windup() is protected with a tc_setclock_mtx spinlock, in the try
mode when called from hardclock interrupt.  If spinlock cannot be
obtained without spinning from the interrupt context, this means that
top-level executes tc_windup() on other core and our try may be
avoided.

The boottimebin and boottime variables should be adjusted from
tc_windup().  To be correct, they must be part of the timehands and
read using lockless protocol.  Remove the globals and reimplement the
getboottime(9)/getboottimebin(9) KPI using the timehands read
protocol.

Tested by:	pho (as part of the whole patch)
Reviewed by:	jhb (same)
Discussed wit:	bde
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	1 month
X-Differential revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7302
2016-07-27 11:49:41 +00:00
Mark Johnston
ef89d843d9 Do not acquire the thread lock in hardclock_cnt() unless needed.
This function only sets thread flags if a SIGPROF or SIGVTALRM timer
has fired, which is almost never the case.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2016-05-18 03:55:54 +00:00
John Baldwin
fdce57a042 Add an EARLY_AP_STARTUP option to start APs earlier during boot.
Currently, Application Processors (non-boot CPUs) are started by
MD code at SI_SUB_CPU, but they are kept waiting in a "pen" until
SI_SUB_SMP at which point they are released to run kernel threads.
SI_SUB_SMP is one of the last SYSINIT levels, so APs don't enter
the scheduler and start running threads until fairly late in the
boot.

This change moves SI_SUB_SMP up to just before software interrupt
threads are created allowing the APs to start executing kernel
threads much sooner (before any devices are probed).  This allows
several initialization routines that need to perform initialization
on all CPUs to now perform that initialization in one step rather
than having to defer the AP initialization to a second SYSINIT run
at SI_SUB_SMP.  It also permits all CPUs to be available for
handling interrupts before any devices are probed.

This last feature fixes a problem on with interrupt vector exhaustion.
Specifically, in the old model all device interrupts were routed
onto the boot CPU during boot.  Later after the APs were released at
SI_SUB_SMP, interrupts were redistributed across all CPUs.

However, several drivers for multiqueue hardware allocate N interrupts
per CPU in the system.  In a system with many CPUs, just a few drivers
doing this could exhaust the available pool of interrupt vectors on
the boot CPU as each driver was allocating N * mp_ncpu vectors on the
boot CPU.  Now, drivers will allocate interrupts on their desired CPUs
during boot meaning that only N interrupts are allocated from the boot
CPU instead of N * mp_ncpu.

Some other bits of code can also be simplified as smp_started is
now true much earlier and will now always be true for these bits of
code.  This removes the need to treat the single-CPU boot environment
as a special case.

As a transition aid, the new behavior is available under a new kernel
option (EARLY_AP_STARTUP).  This will allow the option to be turned off
if need be during initial testing.  I plan to enable this on x86 by
default in a followup commit in the next few days and to have all
platforms moved over before 11.0.  Once the transition is complete,
the option will be removed along with the !EARLY_AP_STARTUP code.

These changes have only been tested on x86.  Other platform maintainers
are encouraged to port their architectures over as well.  The main
things to check for are any uses of smp_started in MD code that can be
simplified and SI_SUB_SMP SYSINITs in MD code that can be removed in
the EARLY_AP_STARTUP case (e.g. the interrupt shuffling).

PR:		kern/199321
Reviewed by:	markj, gnn, kib
Sponsored by:	Netflix
2016-05-14 18:22:52 +00:00
Pedro F. Giffuni
55e0987aea sys: extend use of the howmany() macro when available.
We have a howmany() macro in the <sys/param.h> header that is
convenient to re-use as it makes things easier to read.
2016-04-26 15:38:17 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
ccd0ec4066 The struct thread td_estcpu member is only used by the 4BSD scheduler.
Move it to the struct td_sched for 4BSD, removing always present
field, otherwise unused for ULE.

New scheduler method sched_estcpu() returns the estimation for
kinfo_proc consumption.  As before, it always returns 0 for ULE.

Remove sched_tick() scheduler method, unused both by 4BSD and ULE.

Update locking comment for the 4BSD struct td_sched, copying it from
the same comment for ULE.

Spell MAXPRI as PRI_MAX_TIMESHARE in the 4BSD comment.

Based on some notes from, and reviewed by:	bde
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2016-04-17 11:04:27 +00:00
Peter Wemm
0c56c4f1ab Initialize ticks so that it wraps 10 minutes after boot to increase the
chances of finding problems related to wraparound sooner.

This comes from P4 change 167856 on 2009/08/26 around when we had problems
with the TCP stack with ticks after 24 days of uptime.
2015-02-05 01:43:21 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
5c7bebf961 The process spin lock currently has the following distinct uses:
- Threads lifetime cycle, in particular, counting of the threads in
  the process, and interlocking with process mutex and thread lock.
  The main reason of this is that turnstile locks are after thread
  locks, so you e.g. cannot unlock blockable mutex (think process
  mutex) while owning thread lock.

- Virtual and profiling itimers, since the timers activation is done
  from the clock interrupt context.  Replace the p_slock by p_itimmtx
  and PROC_ITIMLOCK().

- Profiling code (profil(2)), for similar reason.  Replace the p_slock
  by p_profmtx and PROC_PROFLOCK().

- Resource usage accounting.  Need for the spinlock there is subtle,
  my understanding is that spinlock blocks context switching for the
  current thread, which prevents td_runtime and similar fields from
  changing (updates are done at the mi_switch()).  Replace the p_slock
  by p_statmtx and PROC_STATLOCK().

The split is done mostly for code clarity, and should not affect
scalability.

Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	1 week
2014-11-26 14:10:00 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
0436fcb809 When sleeping waiting for the profiling stop, always set P_STOPPROF
before dropping process lock.  Clear P_STOPPROF when doing wakeup.

Both issues caused thread to hang in stopprofclock() "stopprof" sleep.

Reported and tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	1 week
2014-11-10 14:11:17 +00:00
Andriy Gapon
d9fae5ab88 dtrace sdt: remove the ugly sname parameter of SDT_PROBE_DEFINE
In its stead use the Solaris / illumos approach of emulating '-' (dash)
in probe names with '__' (two consecutive underscores).

Reviewed by:	markj
MFC after:	3 weeks
2013-11-26 08:46:27 +00:00
Attilio Rao
54366c0bd7 - For kernel compiled only with KDTRACE_HOOKS and not any lock debugging
option, unbreak the lock tracing release semantic by embedding
  calls to LOCKSTAT_PROFILE_RELEASE_LOCK() direclty in the inlined
  version of the releasing functions for mutex, rwlock and sxlock.
  Failing to do so skips the lockstat_probe_func invokation for
  unlocking.
- As part of the LOCKSTAT support is inlined in mutex operation, for
  kernel compiled without lock debugging options, potentially every
  consumer must be compiled including opt_kdtrace.h.
  Fix this by moving KDTRACE_HOOKS into opt_global.h and remove the
  dependency by opt_kdtrace.h for all files, as now only KDTRACE_FRAMES
  is linked there and it is only used as a compile-time stub [0].

[0] immediately shows some new bug as DTRACE-derived support for debug
in sfxge is broken and it was never really tested.  As it was not
including correctly opt_kdtrace.h before it was never enabled so it
was kept broken for a while.  Fix this by using a protection stub,
leaving sfxge driver authors the responsibility for fixing it
appropriately [1].

Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with:	rstone
[0] Reported by:	rstone
[1] Discussed with:	philip
2013-11-25 07:38:45 +00:00
Ryan Stone
4a7d0bfcaa Correct a bug that prevented deadlkres from (almost) ever firing.
deadlkres was using a reversed test to check whether ticks had rolled over.
This meant that deadlkres could only fire after ticks had rolled over.
This test was actually unnecessary as deadlkres only ever took the
difference of ticks values which is safe even in the presence of ticks
rollover.  Remove the tests entirely.  Now deadlkres will properly fire
after a lock has been held after the timeout period.

MFC after:	1 month
2013-06-28 15:55:30 +00:00
Fabien Thomas
d49302aead Add a generic way to call per event allocate / release function.
Reviewed by:	mav
MFC after:	1 month
2013-03-05 10:18:48 +00:00
Davide Italiano
5b999a6be0 - Make callout(9) tickless, relying on eventtimers(4) as backend for
precise time event generation. This greatly improves granularity of
callouts which are not anymore constrained to wait next tick to be
scheduled.
- Extend the callout KPI introducing a set of callout_reset_sbt* functions,
which take a sbintime_t as timeout argument. The new KPI also offers a
way for consumers to specify precision tolerance they allow, so that
callout can coalesce events and reduce number of interrupts as well as
potentially avoid scheduling a SWI thread.
- Introduce support for dispatching callouts directly from hardware
interrupt context, specifying an additional flag. This feature should be
used carefully, as long as interrupt context has some limitations
(e.g. no sleeping locks can be held).
- Enhance mechanisms to gather informations about callwheel, introducing
a new sysctl to obtain stats.

This change breaks the KBI. struct callout fields has been changed, in
particular 'int ticks' (4 bytes) has been replaced with 'sbintime_t'
(8 bytes) and another 'sbintime_t' field was added for precision.

Together with:	mav
Reviewed by:	attilio, bde, luigi, phk
Sponsored by:	Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by:	flo (amd64, sparc64), marius (sparc64), ian (arm),
		markj (amd64), mav, Fabian Keil
2013-03-04 11:09:56 +00:00
Alexander Motin
1af19ee4a2 Add support for good old 8192Hz profiling clock to software PMC.
Reviewed by:	fabient
2013-02-26 18:13:42 +00:00
John Baldwin
a8df530ddc Mark 'ticks', 'time_second', and 'time_uptime' as volatile to prevent the
compiler from caching their values in tight loops.

Reviewed by:	bde
MFC after:	1 week
2013-01-28 19:38:13 +00:00
Ryan Stone
b3e9e682cf Implement the DTrace sched provider. This implementation aims to be
compatible with the sched provider implemented by Solaris and its open-
source derivatives.  Full documentation of the sched provider can be found
on Oracle's DTrace wiki pages.

Note that for compatibility with scripts originally written for Solaris,
serveral probes are defined that will never fire.  These probes are defined
to fire when Solaris-specific features perform certain actions.  As these
features are not present in FreeBSD, the probes can never fire.

Also, I have added a two probes that are not defined in Solaris, lend-pri
and load-change.  These probes have been added to make it possible to
collect schedgraph data with DTrace.

Finally, a few probes are defined in Solaris to take a cpuinfo_t *
argument.  As it was not immediately clear to me how to translate that to
FreeBSD, currently those probes are passed NULL in place of a cpuinfo_t *.

Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-05-15 01:30:25 +00:00
Fabien Thomas
f5f9340b98 Add software PMC support.
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).

Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.

Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after:	1 month
2012-03-28 20:58:30 +00:00
Alexander Motin
bcfd016cff Idle ticks optimization:
- Pass number of events to the statclock() and profclock() functions
   same as to hardclock() before to not call them many times in a loop.
 - Rename them into statclock_cnt() and profclock_cnt().
 - Turn statclock() and profclock() into compatibility wrappers,
   still needed for arm.
 - Rename hardclock_anycpu() into hardclock_cnt() for unification.

MFC after:	1 week
2012-03-10 14:57:21 +00:00
Ed Schouten
6472ac3d8a Mark all SYSCTL_NODEs static that have no corresponding SYSCTL_DECLs.
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
2011-11-07 15:43:11 +00:00
Alexander Motin
556a5850fa Fix interrupt counters dumping on SW_WATCHDOG fire. 2011-09-27 09:30:20 +00:00
Attilio Rao
521ea19d1c - Remove the eintrcnt/eintrnames usage and introduce the concept of
sintrcnt/sintrnames which are symbols containing the size of the 2
  tables.
- For amd64/i386 remove the storage of intr* stuff from assembly files.
  This area can be widely improved by applying the same to other
  architectures and likely finding an unified approach among them and
  move the whole code to be MI. More work in this area is expected to
  happen fairly soon.

No MFC is previewed for this patch.

Tested by:	pluknet
Reviewed by:	jhb
Approved by:	re (kib)
2011-07-18 15:19:40 +00:00
John Baldwin
e806d352d2 Fix several places to ignore processes that are not yet fully constructed.
MFC after:	1 week
2011-04-06 17:47:22 +00:00
Dimitry Andric
3e288e6238 After some off-list discussion, revert a number of changes to the
DPCPU_DEFINE and VNET_DEFINE macros, as these cause problems for various
people working on the affected files.  A better long-term solution is
still being considered.  This reversal may give some modules empty
set_pcpu or set_vnet sections, but these are harmless.

Changes reverted:

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r215318 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:40:55 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 4 lines

Instead of unconditionally emitting .globl's for the __start_set_xxx and
__stop_set_xxx symbols, only emit them when the set_vnet or set_pcpu
sections are actually defined.

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r215317 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:38:11 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 3 lines

Apply the STATIC_VNET_DEFINE and STATIC_DPCPU_DEFINE macros throughout
the tree.

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r215316 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:23:02 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 2 lines

Add macros to define static instances of VNET_DEFINE and DPCPU_DEFINE.
2010-11-22 19:32:54 +00:00
Dimitry Andric
31c6a0037e Apply the STATIC_VNET_DEFINE and STATIC_DPCPU_DEFINE macros throughout
the tree.
2010-11-14 20:38:11 +00:00
John Baldwin
b58508045b Tweak the waitchannel messages for the dead lock detection kthread. Use
a shorter message (userland generally only sees the first 6 to 8
characters) when waiting for the allproc lock.  Use "-" when idle to math
the behavior of other kthreads.

Reviewed by:	attilio
MFC after:	1 week
2010-11-02 18:34:31 +00:00
Alexander Motin
0e18987383 Make kern_tc.c provide minimum frequency of tc_ticktock() calls, required
to handle current timecounter wraps. Make kern_clocksource.c to honor that
requirement, scheduling sleeps on first CPU for no more then specified
period. Allow other CPUs to sleep up to 1/4 second (for any case).
2010-09-14 08:48:06 +00:00
Alexander Motin
4763a8b8c1 Replace spin lock with the set of atomics. It is impractical for one
tc_ticktock() call to wait for another's completion -- just skip it.
2010-09-14 04:57:30 +00:00
Alexander Motin
a157e42516 Refactor timer management code with priority to one-shot operation mode.
The main goal of this is to generate timer interrupts only when there is
some work to do. When CPU is busy interrupts are generating at full rate
of hz + stathz to fullfill scheduler and timekeeping requirements. But
when CPU is idle, only minimum set of interrupts (down to 8 interrupts per
second per CPU now), needed to handle scheduled callouts is executed.
This allows significantly increase idle CPU sleep time, increasing effect
of static power-saving technologies. Also it should reduce host CPU load
on virtualized systems, when guest system is idle.

There is set of tunables, also available as writable sysctls, allowing to
control wanted event timer subsystem behavior:
  kern.eventtimer.timer - allows to choose event timer hardware to use.
On x86 there is up to 4 different kinds of timers. Depending on whether
chosen timer is per-CPU, behavior of other options slightly differs.
  kern.eventtimer.periodic - allows to choose periodic and one-shot
operation mode. In periodic mode, current timer hardware taken as the only
source of time for time events. This mode is quite alike to previous kernel
behavior. One-shot mode instead uses currently selected time counter
hardware to schedule all needed events one by one and program timer to
generate interrupt exactly in specified time. Default value depends of
chosen timer capabilities, but one-shot mode is preferred, until other is
forced by user or hardware.
  kern.eventtimer.singlemul - in periodic mode specifies how much times
higher timer frequency should be, to not strictly alias hardclock() and
statclock() events. Default values are 2 and 4, but could be reduced to 1
if extra interrupts are unwanted.
  kern.eventtimer.idletick - makes each CPU to receive every timer interrupt
independently of whether they busy or not. By default this options is
disabled. If chosen timer is per-CPU and runs in periodic mode, this option
has no effect - all interrupts are generating.

As soon as this patch modifies cpu_idle() on some platforms, I have also
refactored one on x86. Now it makes use of MONITOR/MWAIT instrunctions
(if supported) under high sleep/wakeup rate, as fast alternative to other
methods. It allows SMP scheduler to wake up sleeping CPUs much faster
without using IPI, significantly increasing performance on some highly
task-switching loads.

Tested by:	many (on i386, amd64, sparc64 and powerc)
H/W donated by:	Gheorghe Ardelean
Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.
2010-09-13 07:25:35 +00:00
Attilio Rao
631cb86f11 - Simplify logic in handling ticks wrap-up
- Fix a bug where thread may be in sleeping state but the wchan won't
  be set, leading to an empty container for sleepq_type(). [0]

Sponsored by:		Sandvine Incorporated
[0] Submitted by:	Bryan Venteicher
			<bryanv at daemoninthecloset dot org>
MFC after:		3 days
X-MFC:			209577
2010-07-07 12:00:11 +00:00