HPET supports reading LAPIC counter without locks, so it can be done in
parallel. This makes booting much faster. Previously initializing every
timer took 100 ms, so 16 CPUs took total of 1.6 seconds. This allows
doing it all in 100 ms.
This makes scheduler preemption much cleaner as bsb does not have to
send smp messages to notify other processes about timer interrupt.
Also PIT percision is now "full" 0.8 us instead of 1 ms that I was using
before.
Change Semaphore -> ThreadBlocker
This was not a semaphore, I just named it one because I didn't know
what semaphore was. I have meant to change this sooner, but it was in
no way urgent :D
Implement SMP events. Processors can now be sent SMP events through
IPIs. SMP events can be sent either to a single processor or broadcasted
to every processor.
PageTable::{map_page,map_range,unmap_page,unmap_range}() now send SMP
event to invalidate TLB caches for the changed pages.
Scheduler no longer uses a global run queue. Each processor has its own
scheduler that keeps track of the load on the processor. Once every
second schedulers do load balancing. Schedulers have no access to other
processors' schedulers, they just see approximate loads. If scheduler
decides that it has too much load, it will send a thread to another
processor through a SMP event.
Schedulers are currently run using the timer interrupt on BSB. This
should be not the case, and each processor should use its LAPIC timer
for interrupts. There is no reason to broadcast SMP event to all
processors when BSB gets timer interrupt.
Old scheduler only achieved 20% idle load on qemu. That was probably a
very inefficient implementation. This new scheduler seems to average
around 1% idle load. This is much closer to what I would expect. On my
own laptop idle load seems to be only around 0.5% on each processor.
When printing early return message, current time was read twice. This
could lead to early return check failing, but when printing and reading
the time again subtraction overflow would happen.
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