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.
costs us another copy of the transform. Revert it.
# Maybe makefile.inc1 should set TARGET_CPUARCH for the cross-tools, but
# it doesn't now. That would solve problems in other places too.
Submitted by: jmallet@
For all libthr contexts, use ${MACHINE_CPUARCH}
for all libc contexts, use ${MACHINE_ARCH} if it exists, otherwise use
${MACHINE_CPUARCH}
Move some common code up a layer (the .PATH statement was the same in
all the arch submakefiles).
# Hope she hasn't busted powerpc64 with this...
Add directory names directly and sort at the end.
Include bsd.arch.inc.mk so we can, in the future, more easily make arch
dependent changes in /bin (unlikely, but is needed for symmetry).
vnode lock and several locks needed during fork, like fd lock.
Instead, schedule the task to be executed in the taskqueue context. We
still waiting for the fork to finish, but the context of the thread
executing the task does not make real LORs with our vnode lock.
Submitted by: pluknet at gmail com
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 3 weeks
* processes now can't go away while we are inserting probes (fixes a panic)
* if a trap happens, we won't be holding the process lock (fixes a hang)
* fix a LOR between the process lock and the fasttrap bucket list lock
Thanks to kib for pointing some problems.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
when mount and update are executed in parallel.
Encapsulate syncer vnode deallocation into the helper function
vfs_deallocate_syncvnode(), to not externalize sync_mtx from vfs_subr.c.
Found and reviewed by: jh (previous version of the patch)
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 3 weeks
