freebsd-dev/sys/ia64
John Baldwin 0c0b25ae91 Implement preemption of kernel threads natively in the scheduler rather
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)
2004-07-02 20:21:44 +00:00
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acpica Add machdep quirks functions. On i386, this disables acpi on systems with 2004-06-30 04:42:29 +00:00
compile Don't need the .keep_me files. Obrien and I committed past each other. 2001-07-01 23:35:44 +00:00
conf Fix typo in comment. While here, end the sentence with a period and 2004-05-17 18:36:14 +00:00
disasm Remove two unused fields in the operand structure (o_read & o_write). 2003-10-24 02:05:53 +00:00
ia32 Add missing #include "opt_compat.h" so that the compatability function 2003-12-18 06:59:18 +00:00
ia64 Implement preemption of kernel threads natively in the scheduler rather 2004-07-02 20:21:44 +00:00
include - Remove unused definitions. 2004-06-23 08:06:52 +00:00
isa Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's 2004-04-07 20:46:16 +00:00
pci Delete legacy pcib code - we can't possibly work without acpi on ia64. 2001-10-06 10:09:57 +00:00