idle. They figure out that we're idle fast enough that the cache pollution
introduces by scanning their run queue is more expensive than waiting
a little longer.
- Add kseq_setidle() to mark us as being idle. Use this in place of
kseq_find().
- Remove kseq_load_highest(), kseq_find() was the only consumer of this
interface. kseq_balance() has it's own customized version that finds the
lowest and highest loads simultaneously.
Continuously told that this would be faster by: terry
the total load, the timeshare load, and the number of threads that can
be migrated to another cpu. Account for these seperately.
- Introduce a KSE_CAN_MIGRATE() macro which determines whether or not a KSE
can be migrated to another CPU. Currently, this only checks to see if
we're an interrupt handler. Eventually this will also be used to support
CPU binding.
slice assignment. Add a comment describing what it does.
- Remove a stale XXX comment, the nice should not impact the interactivity,
nice adjustments only effect non-interactive tasks in ULE.
- Don't allow nice -20 tasks to totally starve nice 0 tasks. Give them at
least SCHED_SLICE_MIN ticks. We still allow nice 0 tasks to starve nice
+20 tasks as intended.
- SCHED_PRI_NRESV does not have the off by one error in PRIO_TOTAL so we
do not have to account for it in the few places that we use it.
Requested by: bde
0 and SCHED_SLP_RUN_MAX * 2. This allows us to simplify the algorithm
quite a bit. Before, it dealt with arbitrary values which required us
to do nasty integer division tricks that didn't quite work out correctly.
- Chnage sched_wakeup() to detect conditions where the slp+runtime could
exceed SCHED_SLP_RUN_MAX * 2. This can happen if we go to sleep for
longer than 6 seconds. In this case, we'll just clear the runtime and
set the sleep time to the max.
- Define a new function, sched_interact_fork() which updates the slp+runtime
of a newly forked thread. We want to limit the amount of history retained
from the parent so that we learn the child's behavior quickly. We don't,
however want to decay it to nothing. Previously, we would simply divide
each parameter by 100 whenever we forked. After a few forks the values
would reach 0 and tasks would not be considered interactive.
- Add another KTR entry, cleanup some existing entries.
- Remove a useless sched_interact_update() from sched_priority(). This is
already done by the callers that require it.
- Add an IPI based mechanism for migrating kses. This mechanism is
broken down into several components. This is intended to reduce cache
thrashing by eliminating most cases where one cpu touches another's
run queues.
- kseq_notify() appends a kse to a lockless singly linked list and
conditionally sends an IPI to the target processor. Right now this is
protected by sched_lock but at some point I'd like to get rid of the
global lock. This is why I used something more complicated than a
standard queue.
- kseq_assign() processes our list of kses that have been assigned to us
by other processors. This simply calls sched_add() for each item on the
list after clearing the new KEF_ASSIGNED flag. This flag is used to
indicate that we have been appeneded to the assigned queue but not
added to the run queue yet.
- In sched_add(), instead of adding a KSE to another processor's queue we
use kse_notify() so that we don't touch their queue. Also in sched_add(),
if KEF_ASSIGNED is already set return immediately. This can happen if
a thread is removed and readded so that the priority is recorded properly.
- In sched_rem() return immediately if KEF_ASSIGNED is set. All callers
immediately readd simply to adjust priorites etc.
- In sched_choose(), if we're running an IDLE task or the per cpu idle thread
set our cpumask bit in 'kseq_idle' so that other processors may know that
we are idle. Before this, make a single pass through the run queues of
other processors so that we may find work more immediately if it is
available.
- In sched_runnable(), don't scan each processor's run queue, they will IPI
us if they have work for us to do.
- In sched_add(), if we're adding a thread that can be migrated and we have
plenty of work to do, try to migrate the thread to an idle kseq.
- Simplify the logic in sched_prio() and take the KEF_ASSIGNED flag into
consideration.
- No longer use kseq_choose() to steal threads, it can lose it's last
argument.
- Create a new function runq_steal() which operates like runq_choose() but
skips threads based on some criteria. Currently it will not steal
PRI_ITHD threads. In the future this will be used for CPU binding.
- Create a kseq_steal() that checks each run queue with runq_steal(), use
kseq_steal() in the places where we used kseq_choose() to steal with
before.
begin with sched_lock held but not recursed, so this variable was
always 0.
Removed fixup of sched_lock.mtx_recurse after context switches in
sched_switch(). Context switches always end with this variable in the
same state that it began in, so there is no need to fix it up. Only
sched_lock.mtx_lock really needs a fixup.
Replaced fixup of sched_lock.mtx_recurse in fork_exit() by an assertion
that sched_lock is owned and not recursed after it is fixed up. This
assertion much match the one in mi_switch(), and if sched_lock were
recursed then a non-null fixup of sched_lock.mtx_recurse would probably
be needed again, unlike in sched_switch(), since fork_exit() doesn't
return to its caller in the normal way.
Contributed by: Thomaswuerfl@gmx.de
- In sched_prio(), adjust the run queue for threads which may need to move
to the current queue due to priority propagation .
- In sched_switch(), fix style bug introduced when the KSE support went in.
Columns are 80 chars wide, not 90.
- In sched_switch(), Fix the comparison in the idle case and explicitly
re-initialize the runq in the not propagated case.
- Remove dead code in sched_clock().
- In sched_clock(), If we're an IDLE class td set NEEDRESCHED so that threads
that have become runnable will get a chance to.
- In sched_runnable(), if we're not the IDLETD, we should not consider
curthread when examining the load. This mimics the 4BSD behavior of
returning 0 when the only runnable thread is running.
- In sched_userret(), remove the code for setting NEEDRESCHED entirely.
This is not necessary and is not implemented in 4BSD.
- Use the correct comparison in sched_add() when checking to see if an idle
prio task has had it's priority temporarily elevated.
rounding errors. This was the source of the majority of the
interactivity problems. Reintroduce the old algorithm and its XXX.
- Up the interactivity threshold to 30. It really could stand to be even
a tiny bit higher.
- Let the sleep and run time accumulate up to 5 seconds of history rather
than two. This helps stop XFree86 from becoming non-interactive during
bursts of activity.
elevated either due to priority propagation or because we're in the
kernel in either case, put us on the current queue so that we dont
stop others from using important resources. At some point the priority
elevations from sleeping in the kernel should go away.
- Remove an optimization in sched_userret(). Before we would only set
NEEDRESCHED if there was something of a higher priority available. This
is a trivial optimization and it breaks priority propagation because it
doesn't take threads which we may be blocking into account. Notice that
the thread which is blocking others gets up to one tick of cpu time before
we honor this NEEDRESCHED in sched_clock().
you on the current queue. In the future, it would be nice if priority
propagation could deterministicly pluck a thread off of the next queue
and put it on the current queue. Until then this hack stops us from
holding up our entire current queue, including interrupt handlers, while
a thread on the next queue is blocked while holding Giant.
- Inherit our pctcpu information from our parent.
- Associate logical CPUs on the same physical core with the same kseq.
- Adjust code that assumed there would only be one running thread in any
kseq.
- Wrap the HTT code with a ULE_HTT_EXPERIMENTAL ifdef. This is a start
towards HyperThreading support but it isn't quite there yet.
nice distribution without significantly impacting interactive response.
As a side effect it should also allow batch processes to run for a
slightly longer period which will positively impact their performance.
causing poor interactive performance while unnice processes were running.
The new scheme still allows nice to have an effect on priority but it is
not as dramatic as the effect of the interactivity score.
because the run time exceeds the largest value a signed int can hold.
The real solution involves calculating how far we are over the limit.
To quickly solve this problem we loop removing 1/5th of the current value
until it falls below the limit. The common case requires no passes.
and run time.
- Scale the sleep and run time back via sched_interact_update() in more
places. This is to keep the statistic more accurate.
- Charge a parent one tick for forking a child.
- Add only the run time and not the sleep time to the parents kg when a
thread exits. This allows us to give a penalty for having an expensive
thread exit but does not give a bonus for having an interactive thread
exit.
- Change the SLP_RUN_THROTTLE to limit us to 4/5th and not 1/2.
- Change the SLP_RUN_MAX to two seconds. This keeps bursty interactive
applications like mozilla and openoffice in the interactive range even
through expensive tasks.
- Recalculate the slice after every sleep. This ensures that once a task
has been marked interactive it only has a slice of 1 at the risk of
giving tasks that sleep for a very brief period a longer time slice.
which meant no process would run for longer than 20ms.
- Slightly redo the interactivity scorer. It follows the same algorithm but
in a slightly more correct way. Previously values above half were
incorrect.
- Lower the interactivity threshold to 20. It seems that in testing non-
interactive tasks are hardly ever near there and expensive interactive
tasks can sometimes surpass it. This area needs more testing.
- Remove an unnecessary KTR.
- Fix a case where an idle thread that had an elevated priority due to
priority prop. would be placed back on the idle queue.
- Delay setting NEEDRESCHED until userret() for threads that haad their
priority elevated while in kernel. This gives us the same context switch
optimization as SCHED_4BSD.
- Limit the child's slice to 1 in sched_fork_kse() so we detect its behavior
more quickly.
- Inhert some of the run/slp time from the child in sched_exit_ksegrp().
- Redo some of the priority comparisons so they are more clear.
- Throttle the frequency of sched_pctcpu_update() so that rounding errors
do not make it invalid.
second and equalizing the load between the two most imbalanced CPU. This
is intended to clear up long term load imbalances that would not be handled
by the 'pull' method in sched_choose().
- Pull out some bits of sched_choose() into a kseq_move() function that moves
an arbitrary thread from one kseq to another.
adding it to the nice tables. Therefore, in kseq_add_nice, we should
keep in mind that the load will be 1 if we are the only thread, and not
0.
- Assert that the sched lock is held in all the appropriate places.
- Increase the scope of the sched lock in sched_pctcpu_update().
- Hold the sched lock in sched_runnable(). It is not held by the caller.
- For the 4BSD scheduler, this means that all callers of the static
function resetpriority() now always hold sched_lock, so don't lock
sched_lock explicitly in that function.
