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Don Lewis 97e9382d56 Decrease latency by not wrapping the idle loop's potentially lengthy
search for a thread to steal inside a critical section.  Since this
allows the search to be preempted, restart the search if preemption
happens since the search results found earlier may no longer be
valid.

Decrease the latency of starting a thread that may be assigned to
this CPU during the search by polling for incoming threads during
the search and switching to that thread instead of continuing the
search.

Test for stale search results and restart the search before going
through the expense of calling tdq_lock_pair().  Retry some tests
after grabbing the locks since things may have changed while waiting
to get both locks.

Eliminate special case handling for stealing from an SMT peer that
uses 1 as the steal threshold.  This can only succeed if a thread
has been assigned but our SMT peer has not yet started executing
it.  This is quite rare and when it happens the other SMT thread
is generally waiting for the same tdq lock that we hold.  Basically
both SMT threads are racing to grab the same spin lock.

Add the kern.sched.always_steal knob from a ULE patch by jeff@.

Incorporate another idea from Jeff's ULE patch.  If the sched_switch()
detects that the CPU is about to go idle, try to steal a thread
before switching to the idle thread.  Since the search for a thread
to steal has to be done inside a critical section in this context,
limit the impact on latency by adding the knob kern.sched.trysteal_limit
to limit the topological distance of the search and don't restart
the search if we detect stale results.  If this search can't find
an stealable thread, the idle loop can do a more complete search.
Also poll for threads being assigned to this CPU during the search
and switch to them instead of continuing the search.  This change
is responsibile for the majority of the improvement in parallel
buildworld times.

In sched_balance_group() change the minimum threshold from stealing
a thread from 1 to 2.  Poaching a newly assigned thread from a CPU
that is waking up hasn't yet switched to that thread from idle is
likely very rare and is likely to have the same lock race as is
seen when stealing threads in the idle loop.  Also use tdq_notify()
to kick the destintation CPU instead of always sending an IPI.
Update a stale comment, the number of transferable threads is not
calculated.

Reviewed by:	kib (earlier version)
Comments by:	avg, jeff, mav
MFC after:	1 month
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12130
2018-02-23 00:12:51 +00:00
bin Capsicumize uuidgen. 2018-02-17 12:32:53 +00:00
cddl MFV r329807: 2018-02-22 04:01:55 +00:00
contrib MFV r329552: less v530. 2018-02-19 05:10:22 +00:00
crypto Add declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile() for OpenSSL. 2018-01-25 23:38:05 +00:00
etc The firewall_type is ignored if not set in rc.conf or rc.conf.local, 2018-02-22 08:25:39 +00:00
gnu Remove libreadline from the source tree, all consumers but gdb 2018-02-06 12:22:42 +00:00
include We don't support gcc < 4.2.1, so varargs.h now is just #error 2018-02-12 14:48:14 +00:00
kerberos5 various: general adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-27 15:37:16 +00:00
lib 8940 Sending an intra-pool resumable send stream may result in EXDEV 2018-02-22 04:01:05 +00:00
libexec Build getty(8) with WARNS=6. 2018-02-21 15:57:24 +00:00
release Put the pine64 root filesystem on teh correct partition. 2018-02-16 16:22:54 +00:00
rescue Avoid referencing private lib names directly. 2017-11-10 07:53:02 +00:00
sbin nvmecontrol: fix build on amd64/clang 2018-02-22 17:47:16 +00:00
secure Remove c_rehash(1) to not confuse users. We do not install the Perl script. 2018-02-08 19:55:03 +00:00
share jedec_dimm(4): report asset info and temperatures for DDR3 and DDR4 DIMMs 2018-02-22 23:18:46 +00:00
stand lualoader: Attend to some 80-col issues, pointed out by luacheck 2018-02-22 20:10:23 +00:00
sys Decrease latency by not wrapping the idle loop's potentially lengthy 2018-02-23 00:12:51 +00:00
targets Remove libreadline from the source tree, all consumers but gdb 2018-02-06 12:22:42 +00:00
tests gpart: append partition name to the underlying provider's physical path 2018-02-14 20:26:09 +00:00
tools lua-lint: Add note about luacheck in ports, silence warning 2018-02-22 15:29:57 +00:00
usr.bin ministat: disallow negative variance / nan Stddev 2018-02-21 15:54:23 +00:00
usr.sbin mountd: Return proper errno values in a few error paths 2018-02-21 00:19:02 +00:00
.arcconfig callsign isn't required anymore 2016-09-29 06:19:45 +00:00
.arclint arc lint: ignore /tests/ in chmod 2017-12-19 03:38:06 +00:00
.gitattributes .git*: add gitattributes and gitignore 2017-12-25 21:07:54 +00:00
.gitignore .git*: add gitattributes and gitignore 2017-12-25 21:07:54 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Happy New Year 2018 my friends! 2017-12-31 16:48:04 +00:00
LOCKS
MAINTAINERS list myself in the MAINTAINERS file for Xen bits 2018-02-13 16:25:43 +00:00
Makefile Add a note about why we have the conditional before including 2018-02-07 16:28:26 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Properly lookup values if they were empty. 2018-02-20 22:03:08 +00:00
Makefile.libcompat X_COMPILER_* may not be defined. 2018-01-24 18:08:37 +00:00
Makefile.sys.inc AUTO_OBJ: For all top-level targets enforce using an OBJDIR. 2017-12-05 21:29:47 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Move devmatch to sbin from usr/sbin. 2018-02-12 14:44:21 +00:00
README Vendor import of less v530. 2018-02-19 04:47:31 +00:00
README.md Document the sys/boot -> stand move in hier.7 and the top-level README. 2017-12-03 20:36:36 +00:00
UPDATING Add Lua as a scripting langauge to /boot/loader 2018-02-12 15:31:53 +00:00

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