ithread priority question...
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Tue Jun 22 22:27:08 GMT 2004
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday 21 June 2004 03:48 am, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > > In swi_add, the priority is multiplied by PPQ.
> > > > This is a layering violation really because PPQ should only be known
> > > > within the scheduler.... but..... "Why multiply by PPQ inthe first
> > > > place?" we are not using the system run queues for interrupt threads.
> > > >
> > > > (PPQ = Priorities Per Queue).
> > > >
> > > > Without this you can remove runq.h from proc.h and include it only in
> > > > the scheduler related files.
> > >
> > > I agree that this makes no sense. Apart from the layering violation,
> > > It seems to just waste priority space. The wastage is not just cosmetic
> > > since someone increased the number of SWIs although there was no room
> > > for expansion.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hardware ithread priorities are also separated by 4. The magic number 4
> > > is encoded in their definitions in priority.h. It's not clear if the 4
> > > is PPQ or just room for expansion without changing the ABI. Preserving
> > > this ABI doesn't seem very important.
> >
> > seems pointless to me..
> > It looks to me that at on stage someone was considerring using the
> > standard run-queue code to make interrupt threads runnable.
> > They wanted each interrupt thread to eb on a differen queue and to use
> > the ffs() code to find the next one to run.
>
> That was the intention. One question though, if the ithreads aren't on the
> system run queues then which run queues are they on?
aren't they run from the interupt?
>
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