It’s been quite a long time since my last report so I think it is a good time to describe what I have been doing in the last two months. The main scheduler logic has been completed and now I am concentrating mainly on bug fixes, adjusting tunables and some minor improvements. I also removed gSchedulerLock
, a spinlock I mentioned in my last post, and replaced it with more fine grained locking. An new interfaces for cpufreq
and cpuidle
modules has been created together with a cpufreq
module for Intel Sandy Bridge or newer cores and cpuidle
module for all processors that support C-states and invariant TSC. Furthermore, IRQs (including MSI) can be now directed to an arbitrary logical processor. Implementation of inter-processor interrupts has been improved so that it avoids acquiring any lock if it is not necessary and supports multicast interrupts. And, last but not least, 8 processor limit has been removed.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/paweł_dziepak/2013-12-20_haiku_meets_9th_processor/