DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2003-12
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libcaps thread testing code committed
Thread testing code has been committed for libcaps. Note that the FP
regs are not saved and restored yet (though there is assembly to do it
present). I did some preliminary switch overhead tests with fp save and
restore and without. 2 million lwkt_swich() calls execute in 0.15
second while the same test which also saves and restore FP regs ran
in 0.45 seconds. So it's the difference between 75ns/context-switch
and 225ns/context-switch (on an AMD-64).
So far my investigation into using a delayed-FP-save has been
unsuccessful. The only way to generate an FP exception on FP-use
is with a CR0 bit and needless to say this cannot be done from
userland. We can designate integer threads to avoid saving and
restoring FP regs in those threads, but otherwise I don't see any way
to avoid it.... remember, anything that adds a system call will add
about a microsecond to the switch code, so implementing anything
that requires a system call will wind up being slower then just
unconditionally saving and restoring the FP regs.
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NOTE! There is a notion of a 'mp_lock' but we have not yet made the
libc tie-in's for it, so in fact my test code does some really bad
things by calling STDIO library functions and using the global errno
right now :-).
In order to play with this stuff you need a kernel with the USER_LDT
option compiled in.
This commit represents major progress in userland threading.
Still TODO:
System call messaging (Galen is working on this)
Libcr sync from libc, and libcr tie-ins for mp_lock
(e.g. using get_mplock() and rel_mplock())
Other lock or mutex functionality to support the new libcr.
Kernel asynchronous syscall messaging support.
This commit 'proves out' the upcall API fairly well. I was able to
implement all the infrastructure necessary to support user threading,
including IPI's between virtual cpus (rfork'd processes), without
having to drop into the kernel to performing a thread switch.
-Matt
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