On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the first release of the "Syslet" kernel feature
> and kernel subsystem, which provides generic asynchrous system call
> support:
> [...]
Ok, I had little to time review the code, but it has been a long
working day, so bear with me if I missed something.
I don't see how sys_async_exec would not block, based on your patches.
Let's try to follow:
- We enter sys_async_exec
- We may fill the pool, but that's nothing interesting ATM. A bunch of
threads will be created, and they'll end up sleeping inside the
cachemiss_loop
- We set the async_ready pointer and we fall inside exec_atom
- There we copy the atom (nothing interesting from a scheduling POV) and
we fall inside __exec_atom
- In __exec_atom we do the actual syscall call. Note that we're still the
task/thread that called sys_async_exec
- So we enter the syscall, and now we end up in schedule because we're
just unlucky
- We notice that the async_ready pointer is not NULL, and we call
__async_schedule
- Finally we're in pick_new_async_thread and we pick one of the ready
threads sleeping in cachemiss_loop
- We copy the pt_regs to the newly picked-up thread, we set its async head
pointer, we set the current task async_ready pointer to NULL, we
re-initialize the async_thread structure (the old async_ready), and we
put ourselves in the busy_list
- Then we roll back to the schedule that started everything, and being
still "prev" for the scheduler, we go to sleep
So the sys_async_exec task is going to block. Now, am I being really
tired, or the cachemiss fast return is simply not there?
There's another problem AFAICS:
- We woke up one of the cachemiss_loop threads in pick_new_async_thread
- The threads wakes up, mark itself as busy, and look at the ->work
pointer hoping to find something to work on
But we never set that pointer to a userspace atom AFAICS. Me blind? :)
- Davide
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