we have to ensure that all stores saving the process state
have completed before setting up->mach = nil in the scheduler.
otherwise, another cpu could observe up->mach == nil while
the stores such as the processes p->sched label have not finnished.
between being commited to a machno and having acquired the lock, the
scheduler could come in an schedule us on a different processor. the
solution is to have dtmachlock() take a special -1 argument to mean
"current mach" and return the actual mach number after the lock has
been acquired and interrupts being disabled.
all screen implementations use a Memimage* internally
for the framebuffer, so we can return a shared reference
to its Memdata structure in attachscreen() instead of
a framebuffer data pointer.
this eleminates the softscreen == 0xa110c hack as we
always use shared Memdata* now.
always start the pager kproc in swapinit(), simplifying kickpager().
allow zero conf.nswap and conf.nswppo. avoid allocating the reference
map and iolist arrays in that case.
use ulong for ioptr and iolist indices.
don't panic when writing pages out to the swapfile fails. just
requeue the page in the io transaction list so we will try
again next time executeio() is run or just free the page when
the swap reference was dropped.
remove unused pagersummary() function.
segclock() has to be called from hzclock(), otherwise
only processes running on cpu0 would catche the interrupt
and the time delta would be wrong.
lock the segment when allocating Seg->profile as
profile ctl might be issued from multiple processes.
Proc->debug qlock is not sufficient.
Seg->profile can never be freed or reallocated once
set as the timer interrupt accesses it without any
locking.
linux will send small, unpadded arp packets which may arrive over
wifi, so allow small packets into the bridge and pad any packets that
are too small when going out.
Once a second rebalance() is called on cpu0 to adjust priorities,
so cpu-bound processes won't lock others out. However it was only
adjusting processes which were running on cpu0. This was observed
to lead to livelock, eg when a higher-priority process spin-waits
for a lock held by a lower priority one.
now handle the supported rates element properly, only
providing the intersecting set of rates that the bss
advertises and what the driver supports, putting the
basic rates first.
also avoid using usupported rates.
on HZ 100 systems like pc and pc64, the minium sleep time
was 10ms, which is quite high. the cap isnt really needed
as arch specific timerset() enforces its own limit, but on
a higher resolution.
background:
from Charles Forsyth:
I haven't really got an opinion on it. The 10ms interval was first used on
machines that were much slower.
I thought someone did set HZ to a bigger value, partly to support better
in-kernel timing. I haven't done it because I never had a need for it.
If I were doing (say) protocol implementation in user mode, I'd certainly
reconsider. Sleep itself forces at best ms granularity,
and for some applications that's too big.
initial mail from qwx raising the issue:
> Hello,
>
> I found out recently that sleep(2)'s resolution on 386 and 9front's amd64
> kernel is 10 ms rather than 1 ms. The reason is that on those kernels,
> HZ is set to 100 rather than say 1000. In syssleep, we get 1 tich every
> 10 ms.
>
> What is unclear is why.
>
> To paraphrase cinap_lenrek's answer to my question:
>
> In syssleep:
> if(ms < TK2MS(1))
> ms = TK2MS(1);
> tsleep(&up->sleep, return0, 0, ms);
>
> "TK2MS(1)" can be replaced with just "1", and the arch specific
> timerset() routine would do its own capping of the period if it's too
> small for the timer resolution, and make better decisions based on what
> the minimum timer period should be given the latency overhead of the
> given arch's interrupt handling and performance characteristics.
>
> Alternatively, HZ could be raised to 500 or 1000.
>
> It seems it's just trying to prevent excessive context switches and
> interrupts, but it seems somewhat arbitrary. A ton of syscalls can be
> done in 1 ms, and it's the lowest we can go without changing the unit.
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> qwx
devdir internally replicates the qid in ther perm stat field
already and the practice of explicitely passing just causing
confusion when done inconsistently.
this driver makes regions of physical memory accessible as a disk.
to use it, ramdiskinit() has to be called before confinit(), so
that conf.mem[] banks can be reserved. currently, only pc and pc64
kernel use it, but otherwise the implementation is portable.
ramdisks are not zeroed when allocated, so that the contents are
preserved across warm reboots.
to not waste memory, physical segments do not allocate Page structures
or populate the segment pte's anymore. theres also a new SG_CHACHED
attribute.
