There is a global heap of cores, where the key is the highest priority
of threads running on that core. Moreover, for each core there is
a heap of logical processors on this core where the key is the priority
of currently running thread.
The per-core heap is used for load balancing among logical processors
on that core. The global heap is used in initial decision where to put
the thread (note that the algorithm that makes this decision is not
complete yet).
Simple scheduler is used when we do not have to worry about cache affinity
(i.e. single core with or without SMT, multicore with all cache levels
shared).
When we replace gSchedulerLock with more fine grained locking affine
scheduler should also be chosen when logical CPU count is high (regardless
of cache).
In SMP systems simple scheduler will be used only when all logical
processors share all levels of cache and the number of CPUs is low.
In such systems we do not have to care about cache affinity and
the contention on the lock protecting shared run queue is low. Single
run queue makes load balancing very simple.
Kernel support for yielding to all (including lower priority) threads
has been removed. POSIX sched_yield() remains unchanged.
If a thread really needs to yield to everyone it can reduce its priority
to the lowest possible and then yield (it will then need to manually
return to its prvious priority upon continuing).
Each thread has its minimal priority that depends on the static priority.
However, it is still able to starve threads with even lower priority
(e.g. CPU bound threads with lower static priority). To prevent this
another penalty is introduced. When the minimal priority is reached
penalty (count mod minimal_priority) is added, where count is the number
of time slices since the thread reached its minimal priority. This prevents
starvation of lower priorirt threads (since all CPU bound threads may have
their priority temporaily reduced to 1) but preserves relation between
static priorities - when there are two CPU bound threads the one with
higher static priority would get more CPU time.
Should already have been done back when the semantics for the
B_COMMON_*DIRECTORY constants was changed.
Currently old and new version behave the same. So this is just a
contingency measure ATM.
* This does intentionally break source compatibility, so that a review
of concerned code is forced.
* Binary compatibility should be maintained in most cases. The values
of the constants for the writable directories are now used for the
writable system directories. The values for the non-writable
directories are mapped to "/boot/system/data/empty/...", an empty or
non-existent directory, so that they will simply be skipped in search
paths. Only code that explicitly expects to find something in a
B_COMMON_* directory, will fail.
* Remove support for the "common" installation location from packagefs,
package kit, package daemon, package managers.
* Rename the B_COMMON_*_DIRECTORY constants referring to writable
directories to B_SYSTEM_*_DIRECTORY.
* Remove/adjust the use of various B_COMMON_*_DIRECTORY constants.
I'm sure some occurrence still remain. They can be adjusted when the
remaining B_COMMON_*_DIRECTORY constants are removed.
* find_directory() and hard-coded paths use /boot/system instead of
/boot/common.
* The build system creates the writable directories in /boot/system
instead of /boot/common.
* The build system no longer installs any packages in /boot/common.
* The new class is called DriverSettingsMessageAdapter which can translate
between a driver_settings file, and a BMessage.
* The net_server Settings class is now just using this class.
- BJobStateListener: Add progress state and corresponding hook.
- FetchFileJob: Notify job progress hook on libcurl notifications.
- UserInteractionHandler: Add hooks for download progress and checksum
validation progress.
- PackageManager: inherit from JobStateListener and watch for job
notifications for internally generated jobs. Forward to corresponding
UserInteractionHandler hooks as needed.
- Adapt pkgman, HaikuDepot and package_daemon to above changes.
Neither HaikuDepot nor package_daemon's progress hooks are wired up to
do anything yet though.
- Pull functionality back into package manager itself since the extra
indirection doesn't really buy us anything in this case, as neither
request that it handles requires a decision provider.
- Adjust pkgman and HaikuDepot accordingly.
* imported asc-num.txt as a reference, was used to generate the asc sense table.
* use the sense asc and key tables to know which action and status codes are
to be applied.
* tested with an hard disk and a dvd reader.
* these tables could be reused by the scsi_periph module.
* Add NotifyDone() to all repository-attribute handlers and invoke that
to notify any listeners.
* Unify deletion to a single implementation of Delete() in the base
class. Before, the root handler for a repository didn't do that, but
just triggered the notification.
Support for 64-bit atomic operations for ARMv7+ is currently stubbed
out in libroot, but our current targets do not use it anyway.
We now select atomics-as-syscalls automatically based on the ARM
architecture we're building for. The intent is to do away with
most of the board specifics (at the very least on the kernel side)
and just specify the lowest ARMvX version you want to build for.
This will give flexibility in being able to distribute a single
image for a wide range of devices, and building a tuned system
for one specific core type.
This adds the -mapcs-frame compiler flag for ARM to have "stable"
stack frames, adds support to the kernel for dumping stack crawls,
and initial support for iframes. There' much more functionality
to unlock in KDL, but this makes debugging already a lot more
comfortable.....
Since both platforms can boot the same kernel we must accept either
arg, so we make sure they are identical for now.
TODO: use a union or KMessage maybe?
As korli suggested use B_PAGE_SIZE for defining stack size related
definitions what seems to be more natural for them and also may
help if we ever support an architecture with page size different than
4kB.
* Seems like there was no easy way to simply invalidate
a given BRow. Introduced BColumnListView::InvalidateRow().
* BRow::SetField() tried to invalidate the row, but invalidated
the listview instead of the BOutlineView responsible for
drawing the list contents. Use the new InvaalidateRow().
As korli suggested use B_PAGE_SIZE for defining stack size related
definitions what seems to be more natural for them and also may
help if we ever support an architecture with page size different than
4kB.
* Seems like there was no easy way to simply invalidate
a given BRow. Introduced BColumnListView::InvalidateRow().
* BRow::SetField() tried to invalidate the row, but invalidated
the listview instead of the BOutlineView responsible for
drawing the list contents. Use the new InvaalidateRow().
