Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.
To use this code you must compile a kernel with
options DEVICE_POLLING
and at runtime enable polling with
sysctl kern.polling.enable=1
The percentage of CPU reserved to userland can be set with
sysctl kern.polling.user_frac=NN (default is 50)
while the remainder is used by polling device drivers and netisr's.
These are the only two variables that you should need to touch. There
are a few more parameters in kern.polling but the default values
are adequate for all purposes. See the code in kern_poll.c for
more details on them.
Polling in the idle loop will be implemented shortly by introducing
a kernel thread which does the job. Until then, the amount of CPU
dedicated to polling will never exceed (100-user_frac).
The equivalent (actually, better) code for -stable is at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/
and also supports polling in the idle loop.
NOTE to Alpha developers:
There is really nothing in this code that is i386-specific.
If you move the 2 lines supporting the new option from
sys/conf/{files,options}.i386 to sys/conf/{files,options} I am
pretty sure that this should work on the Alpha as well, just that
I do not have a suitable test box to try it. If someone feels like
trying it, I would appreciate it.
NOTE to other developers:
sure some things could be done better, and as always I am open to
constructive criticism, which a few of you have already given and
I greatly appreciated.
However, before proposing radical architectural changes, please
take some time to possibly try out this code, or at the very least
read the comments in kern_poll.c, especially re. the reason why I
am using a soft netisr and cannot (I believe) replace it with a
simple timeout.
Quick description of files touched by this commit:
sys/conf/files.i386
new file kern/kern_poll.c
sys/conf/options.i386
new option
sys/i386/i386/trap.c
poll in trap (disabled by default)
sys/kern/kern_clock.c
initialization and hardclock hooks.
sys/kern/kern_intr.c
minor swi_net changes
sys/kern/kern_poll.c
the bulk of the code.
sys/net/if.h
new flag
sys/net/if_var.h
declaration for functions used in device drivers.
sys/net/netisr.h
NETISR_POLL
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxpvar.h
sys/pci/if_dc.c
sys/pci/if_dcreg.h
sys/pci/if_sis.c
sys/pci/if_sisreg.h
device driver modifications
for use on machines with untrusted local users, for security as well
as stability reasons.
o Lack of clarity pointed out by: David Rufino <dr@soniq.net> via bugtraq.
Assert that compilation takes place in a freestanding environment. This
implies `-fno-builtin'. A freestanding environment is one in which the
standard library may not exist, and program startup may not necessarily be
at main. The most obvious example is an OS kernel. This is equivalent to
`-fno-hosted'.
cardbus in the kernel, not on all the bridges that implement it.
Note: this is NEWCARD only, so we don't want it for the 'card' case,
unlike card_if.m, which is both NEWCARD and OLDCARD.
NEWCARD. Other patches may be reqiured to sio to prevent a hang on
eject. Also add commented out entries for sio_pccard.c in files.pc98
to match other architectures.
Submitted by: yamamoto shigeru-san
kern.post.mk.
# this should allow us to move kern.post.mk to the last line of the makefiles,
# but I'll do that slowly as I verify that one can do that w/o breaking things.
Submitted by: naddy
Any modifications to SYSTEM_OBJS after including kern.post.mk
will not make it to SYSTEM_DEP and consequently any dependency
rules. This caused __{div|rem}* to not be built...
- Add S4BIOS sleep implementation. This will works well if MIB
hw.acpi.s4bios is set (and of course BIOS supports it and hibernation
is enabled correctly).
- Add DSDT overriding support which is submitted by takawata originally.
If loader tunable acpi_dsdt_load="YES" and DSDT file is set to
acpi_dsdt_name (default DSDT file name is /boot/acpi_dsdt.aml),
ACPI CA core loads DSDT from given file rather than BIOS memory block.
DSDT file can be generated by iasl in ports/devel/acpicatools/.
- Add new files so that we can add our proposed additional code to Intel
ACPI CA into these files temporary. They will be removed when
similar code is added into ACPI CA officially.
"[...] and removes the hostcache code from standard kernels---the
code that depends on it is not going to happen any time soon,
I'm afraid."
Time to clean up.
Fix it by putting back the link of machine to sys/i386/include rather
than ../../include (aka sys/pc98/include). I had a stale machine link
on my first test.
Not sure what the "right" fix is, but this unbreaks things.
new files: kern.pre.mk, which contains most of the definitions, and
kern.post.mk, which contains most of the rules.
I've tested this on i386 and pc98. I have had feedback on the sparc64
port, but no reports from anybody on alpha, ia64 or powerpc. I
appologize in advance if I've broken you.
Reviewed by: jake, jhb, arch@
- Now that apm loadable module can inform its existence to other kernel
components (e.g. i386/isa/clock.c:startrtclock()'s TCS hack).
- Exchange priority of SI_SUB_CPU and SI_SUB_KLD for above purpose.
- Add simple arbitration mechanism for APM vs. ACPI. This prevents
the kernel enables both of them.
- Remove obsolete `#ifdef DEV_APM' related code.
- Add abstracted interface for Powermanagement operations. Public apm(4)
functions, such as apm_suspend(), should be replaced new interfaces.
Currently only power_pm_suspend (successor of apm_suspend) is implemented.
Reviewed by: peter, arch@ and audit@
booted from it when doing an installkernel.
Only change kern.bootfile from ${DESTDIR}${KODIR}/${KERNEL_KO}
to ${DESTDIR}${KODIR}.old/${KERNEL_KO}, and only when we're renaming
a booted ${DESTDIR}${KODIR}/${KERNEL_KO} kernel.
Small tweaks to kldxref may be necessary to avoid the surprising (but harm-
less) behaviour of 'kldload foo' loading foo.ko.debug instead of foo.ko if
it is present in the kernel directory.
Approved by: a week of silence on -arch
MFC after: 2 weeks
