Re: [POC][RFC][PATCH] sched: Extended Scheduler Time Slice

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On 2023-10-25 10:31, Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:55:45 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 08:54:34AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

I didn't want to overload that for something completely different. This is
not a "restartable sequence".

Your hack is arguably worse. At least rseq already exists and most
threads will already have it set up if you have a recent enough glibc.

I don't expect that file to be the final solution. I can look at the rseq
code, but I really hate to overload that. I'm thinking perhaps another
system call, or what the hell, add another ioctl like feature to prctl()!
Actually, prctl() may be the proper place for this.


I don't have an informed opinion on whether the proposed heuristic is a good idea or not, but it should definitely be implemented as an extension to rseq as suggested by Peter. I've even made the whole rseq ABI extensible to accommodate those additional use-cases.

In the initial rounds of rseq implementation, I even called rseq "kTLS" because I expected it to be extended and eventually become an ABI that contains various per-thread fields which are shared between kernel and userspace.

So don't let the specific naming of the rseq system call stop you from extending it for other purposes when per-thread shared memory between kernel and userspace is needed. Setting up various per-thread areas like this on thread creation is not free: it requires additional system calls on thread creation. It really makes no sense to have more than one.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com





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