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Author SHA1 Message Date
Luigi Rizzo
2dbd9d5bc3 Make the DEVICE_POLLING code compile with -Werror and in LINT 2002-03-09 08:02:52 +00:00
Luigi Rizzo
e522304423 Make this compile after changes to kse structures.
This escaped because DEVICE_POLLING is disabled in LINT being
not compatible with SMP. In fact, it is only a runtime problem,
so if we could recognize that we are building a LINT kernel
we could as well disable the check for SMP being defined.

Reported-by: Joe Clarke
2002-02-15 02:50:07 +00:00
Luigi Rizzo
daccb6386b MFS: synchronize the code with the version in -stable, specifically:
+ SYSCTL_ULONG -> SYSCTL_UINT
 + some procedure renaming and variable rearrangement
 + fix the 'interface going deaf' problem same as in -stable.
2002-02-11 23:56:18 +00:00
Julian Elischer
2c1007663f In a threaded world, differnt priorirites become properties of
different entities.  Make it so.

Reviewed by:	jhb@freebsd.org (john baldwin)
2002-02-11 20:37:54 +00:00
Luigi Rizzo
d105c784d5 Complete the device polling support by adding a thread in charge
of polling interfaces at the lowest possible priority
(this might result in softnetisr being scheduled, but there is
no risk of livelock because they have a higher priority than
this thread).
2001-12-19 00:53:24 +00:00
Luigi Rizzo
e4fc250c15 Device Polling code for -current.
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
2001-12-14 17:56:12 +00:00