History log of /freebsd-current/sys/sys/sleepqueue.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 95ee2897 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 6df35af4 25-Jun-2021 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Allow sleepq_signal() to drop the lock.

Introduce SLEEPQ_DROP sleepq_signal() flag, allowing one to drop the
sleep queue chain lock before returning. Reduced lock scope allows
significantly reduce lock contention inside taskqueue_enqueue() for
ZFS worker threads doing ~350K disk reads/s on 40-thread system.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 15465a2c 24-Apr-2021 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Add sleepq_remove_nested()

The helper removes the thread from a sleep queue, assuming that it would
need to sleep. The sleepq_remove_nested() function is intended for quite
special case, where suspended thread from traced stopped process is
temporary unsuspended to do some work on behalf of the debugger in the
target context, and this work might require sleep.

Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29955


# fea73412 24-Dec-2019 Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org>

sleep(9), sleepqueue(9): const'ify wchan pointers

_sleep(9), wakeup(9), sleepqueue(9), et al do not dereference or modify the
channel pointers provided in any way; they are merely used as intptrs into a
dictionary structure to match waiters with wakers. Correctly annotate this
such that _sleep() and wakeup() may be used on const pointers without
invoking ugly patterns like __DECONST(). Plumb const through all of the
underlying sleepqueue bits.

No functional change.

Reviewed by: rlibby
Discussed with: kib, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22914


# f91aa773 19-Jun-2019 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add wakeup_any(), cheaper wakeup_one() for taskqueue(9).

wakeup_one() and underlying sleepq_signal() spend additional time trying
to be fair, waking thread with highest priority, sleeping longest time.
But in case of taskqueue there are many absolutely identical threads, and
any fairness between them is quite pointless. It makes even worse, since
round-robin wakeups not only make previous CPU affinity in scheduler quite
useless, but also hide from user chance to see CPU bottlenecks, when
sequential workload with one request at a time looks evenly distributed
between multiple threads.

This change adds new SLEEPQ_UNFAIR flag to sleepq_signal(), making it wakeup
thread that went to sleep last, but no longer in context switch (to avoid
immediate spinning on the thread lock). On top of that new wakeup_any()
function is added, equivalent to wakeup_one(), but setting the flag.
On top of that taskqueue(9) is switchied to wakeup_any() to wakeup its
threads.

As result, on 72-core Xeon v4 machine sequential ZFS write to 12 ZVOLs
with 16KB block size spend 34% less time in wakeup_any() and descendants
then it was spending in wakeup_one(), and total write throughput increased
by ~10% with the same as before CPU usage.

Reviewed by: markj, mmacy
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20669


# 2e43efd0 06-Mar-2019 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Drop "All rights reserved" from my copyright statements.

Reviewed by: rgrimes
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19485


# c4e20cad 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/sys: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.


# 9dbdf2a1 14-Mar-2017 Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org>

When the RTC is adjusted, reevaluate absolute sleep times based on the RTC

POSIX 2008 says this about clock_settime(2):

If the value of the CLOCK_REALTIME clock is set via clock_settime(),
the new value of the clock shall be used to determine the time
of expiration for absolute time services based upon the
CLOCK_REALTIME clock. This applies to the time at which armed
absolute timers expire. If the absolute time requested at the
invocation of such a time service is before the new value of
the clock, the time service shall expire immediately as if the
clock had reached the requested time normally.

Setting the value of the CLOCK_REALTIME clock via clock_settime()
shall have no effect on threads that are blocked waiting for
a relative time service based upon this clock, including the
nanosleep() function; nor on the expiration of relative timers
based upon this clock. Consequently, these time services shall
expire when the requested relative interval elapses, independently
of the new or old value of the clock.

When the real-time clock is adjusted, such as by clock_settime(3),
wake any threads sleeping until an absolute real-clock time.
Such a sleep is indicated by a non-zero td_rtcgen. The sleep functions
will set that field to zero and return zero to tell the caller
to reevaluate its sleep duration based on the new value of the clock.

At present, this affects the following functions:

pthread_cond_timedwait(3)
pthread_mutex_timedlock(3)
pthread_rwlock_timedrdlock(3)
pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock(3)
sem_timedwait(3)
sem_clockwait_np(3)

I'm working on adding clock_nanosleep(2), which will also be affected.

Reported by: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Dell EMC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9791


# 82e17adc 16-Mar-2016 Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org>

fail(9): Only gather/print stacks if STACK is enabled

This is a follow-up fix to the earlier r296927.

Reported by: bz
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division


# 70e20d4e 15-Mar-2016 Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org>

fail(9): Upstreaming some fail point enhancements

This is several year's worth of fail point upgrades done at EMC Isilon. They
are interdependent enough that it makes sense to put a single diff up for them.
Primarily, we added:

- Changing all mainline execution paths to be lockless, which lets us use fail
points in more sleep-sensitive areas, and allows more parallel execution
- A number of additional commands, including 'pause' that lets us do some
interesting deterministic repros of race conditions
- The ability to dump the stacks of all threads sleeping on a fail point
- A number of other API changes to allow marking up the fail point's context in
the code, and firing callbacks before and after execution
- A man page update

Submitted by: Matthew Bryan <matthew.bryan@isilon.com>
Reviewed by: cem (earlier version), jhb, kib, pho
With feedback from: bdrewery
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5427


# e444e04b 22-Sep-2014 Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>

Reflect the chanages in sleepqueue.h and subr_sleepqueue.c

- Priority argument is introduced to sleepq_*wait* in r177085
- sleepq_calc_signal_retval is removed from implementation
- sleepq_catch_signals is internal now

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D794
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: jhb


# e432d5f6 05-Feb-2014 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Drop the 3rd clause from all 3 clause BSD licenses where I am the sole
holder to convert them to 2 clause BSD licenses.

MFC after: 1 week


# 3cf3b9f0 18-Mar-2013 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Partially revert r195702. Deferring stops is now implemented via a set of
calls to toggle TDF_SBDRY rather than passing PBDRY to individual sleep
calls.
- Remove the stop_allowed parameters from cursig() and issignal().
issignal() checks TDF_SBDRY directly.
- Remove the PBDRY and SLEEPQ_STOP_ON_BDRY flags.


# 7392d01c 04-Mar-2013 Davide Italiano <davide@FreeBSD.org>

Style fix: remove useless braces. Sorry, my bad.

Submitted by: bde


# 965ac611 04-Mar-2013 Davide Italiano <davide@FreeBSD.org>

MFcalloutng:
Convert sleepqueue(9) bits to the new callout KPI. Take advantage of
the possibility to run callback directly from hw interrupt context.

Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by: flo, marius, ian, markj, Fabian Keil


# b4dac21d 13-Dec-2010 Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>

Tighten up some of the comments describing turnstiles and sleepqueues.
No code changes.

Reviewed by: John Baldwin


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# 93a45f0f 24-Jan-2010 Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>

MFC r201879:
Introduce the new kernel thread called "deadlock resolver".
It is used in order to seek within the threads state and heuristically
understand if there is any deadlock happening.

In order to implement it, the sq_type in sleepqueues is mandatory and not
only compiled along with INVARIANTS option. Additively, a new sleepqueue
function, sleepq_type() is added, returning the type of the sleepqueue
linked to a wchan.
Three new sysctls are added in order to configure the thread:
debug.deadlkres.slptime_threshold
debug.deadlkres.blktime_threshold
debug.deadlkres.sleepfreq

rappresenting the thresholds for sleep and block time that will lead to
a deadlock matching (when exceeded), while the sleepfreq rappresents the
number of seconds between 2 consecutive thread runnings.
In order to enable the deadlock resolver thread recompile your kernel
with the option DEADLKRES.

Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated


# 702748e9 18-Jan-2010 Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>

MFC r200447,201703,201709-201710:
In current code, threads performing an interruptible sleep
will leave the waiters flag on forcing the owner to do a wakeup even
when the waiter queue is empty.
That operation may lead to a deadlock in the case of doing a fake wakeup
on the "preferred" queue while the other queue has real waiters on it,
because nobody is going to wakeup the 2nd queue waiters and they will
sleep indefinitively.
A similar bug, is present, for lockmgr in the case the waiters are
sleeping with LK_SLEEPFAIL on.

Add a sleepqueue interface which does report the actual number of waiters
on a specified queue of a waitchannel and track if at least one sleepfail
waiter is present or not. In presence of this or empty "preferred" queue,
wakeup both waiters queues.

Discussed with: kib
Tested by: Pete French <petefrench at ticketswitch dot com>,
Justin Head <justin at encarnate dot com>


# f7829d0d 08-Jan-2010 Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>

Introduce the new kernel thread called "deadlock resolver".
While the name is pretentious, a good explanation of its targets is
reported in this 17 months old presentation e-mail:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2008-August/008452.html

In order to implement it, the sq_type in sleepqueues is mandatory and not
only compiled along with INVARIANTS option. Additively, a new sleepqueue
function, sleepq_type() is added, returning the type of the sleepqueue
linked to a wchan.
Three new sysctls are added in order to configure the thread:
debug.deadlkres.slptime_threshold
debug.deadlkres.blktime_threshold
debug.deadlkres.sleepfreq

rappresenting the thresholds for sleep and block time that will lead to
a deadlock matching (when exceeded), while the sleepfreq rappresents the
number of seconds between 2 consecutive thread runnings.
In order to enable the deadlock resolver thread recompile your kernel
with the option DEADLKRES.

Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho, Giovanni Trematerra
Sponsored by: Nokia Incorporated, Sandvine Incorporated
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 2028867d 12-Dec-2009 Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>

In current code, threads performing an interruptible sleep (on both
sxlock, via the sx_{s, x}lock_sig() interface, or plain lockmgr), will
leave the waiters flag on forcing the owner to do a wakeup even when if
the waiter queue is empty.
That operation may lead to a deadlock in the case of doing a fake wakeup
on the "preferred" (based on the wakeup algorithm) queue while the other
queue has real waiters on it, because nobody is going to wakeup the 2nd
queue waiters and they will sleep indefinitively.

A similar bug, is present, for lockmgr in the case the waiters are
sleeping with LK_SLEEPFAIL on. In this case, even if the waiters queue
is not empty, the waiters won't progress after being awake but they will
just fail, still not taking care of the 2nd queue waiters (as instead the
lock owned doing the wakeup would expect).

In order to fix this bug in a cheap way (without adding too much locking
and complicating too much the semantic) add a sleepqueue interface which
does report the actual number of waiters on a specified queue of a
waitchannel (sleepq_sleepcnt()) and use it in order to determine if the
exclusive waiters (or shared waiters) are actually present on the lockmgr
(or sx) before to give them precedence in the wakeup algorithm.
This fix alone, however doesn't solve the LK_SLEEPFAIL bug. In order to
cope with it, add the tracking of how many exclusive LK_SLEEPFAIL waiters
a lockmgr has and if all the waiters on the exclusive waiters queue are
LK_SLEEPFAIL just wake both queues.

The sleepq_sleepcnt() introduction and ABI breakage require
__FreeBSD_version bumping.

Reported by: avg, kib, pho
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho


# f33a947b 14-Jul-2009 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Add new msleep(9) flag PBDY that shall be specified together with
PCATCH, to indicate that thread shall not be stopped upon receipt of
SIGSTOP until it reaches the kernel->usermode boundary.

Also change thread_single(SINGLE_NO_EXIT) to only stop threads at
the user boundary unconditionally.

Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# 2cdcea5e 07-Aug-2008 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Document the new return values for sleepq_abort(), sleepq_broadcast(), and
sleepq_signal().

Prodded by: attilio


# da7bbd2c 05-Aug-2008 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

If a thread that is swapped out is made runnable, then the setrunnable()
routine wakes up proc0 so that proc0 can swap the thread back in.
Historically, this has been done by waking up proc0 directly from
setrunnable() itself via a wakeup(). When waking up a sleeping thread
that was swapped out (the usual case when waking proc0 since only sleeping
threads are eligible to be swapped out), this resulted in a bit of
recursion (e.g. wakeup() -> setrunnable() -> wakeup()).

With sleep queues having separate locks in 6.x and later, this caused a
spin lock LOR (sleepq lock -> sched_lock/thread lock -> sleepq lock).
An attempt was made to fix this in 7.0 by making the proc0 wakeup use
the ithread mechanism for doing the wakeup. However, this required
grabbing proc0's thread lock to perform the wakeup. If proc0 was asleep
elsewhere in the kernel (e.g. waiting for disk I/O), then this degenerated
into the same LOR since the thread lock would be some other sleepq lock.

Fix this by deferring the wakeup of the swapper until after the sleepq
lock held by the upper layer has been locked. The setrunnable() routine
now returns a boolean value to indicate whether or not proc0 needs to be
woken up. The end result is that consumers of the sleepq API such as
*sleep/wakeup, condition variables, sx locks, and lockmgr, have to wakeup
proc0 if they get a non-zero return value from sleepq_abort(),
sleepq_broadcast(), or sleepq_signal().

Discussed with: jeff
Glanced at by: sam
Tested by: Jurgen Weber jurgen - ish com au
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 047dd67e 06-Apr-2008 Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>

Optimize lockmgr in order to get rid of the pool mutex interlock, of the
state transitioning flags and of msleep(9) callings.
Use, instead, an algorithm very similar to what sx(9) and rwlock(9)
alredy do and direct accesses to the sleepqueue(9) primitive.

In order to avoid writer starvation a mechanism very similar to what
rwlock(9) uses now is implemented, with the correspective per-thread
shared lockmgrs counter.

This patch also adds 2 new functions to lockmgr KPI: lockmgr_rw() and
lockmgr_args_rw(). These two are like the 2 "normal" versions, but they
both accept a rwlock as interlock. In order to realize this, the general
lockmgr manager function "__lockmgr_args()" has been implemented through
the generic lock layer. It supports all the blocking primitives, but
currently only these 2 mappers live.

The patch drops the support for WITNESS atm, but it will be probabilly
added soon. Also, there is a little race in the draining code which is
also present in the current CVS stock implementation: if some sharers,
once they wakeup, are in the runqueue they can contend the lock with
the exclusive drainer. This is hard to be fixed but the now committed
code mitigate this issue a lot better than the (past) CVS version.
In addition assertive KA_HELD and KA_UNHELD have been made mute
assertions because they are dangerous and they will be nomore supported
soon.

In order to avoid namespace pollution, stack.h is splitted into two
parts: one which includes only the "struct stack" definition (_stack.h)
and one defining the KPI. In this way, newly added _lockmgr.h can
just include _stack.h.

Kernel ABI results heavilly changed by this commit (the now committed
version of "struct lock" is a lot smaller than the previous one) and
KPI results broken by lockmgr_rw() / lockmgr_args_rw() introduction,
so manpages and __FreeBSD_version will be updated accordingly.

Tested by: kris, pho, jeff, danger
Reviewed by: jeff
Sponsored by: Google, Summer of Code program 2007


# c5aa6b58 12-Mar-2008 Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>

- Pass the priority argument from *sleep() into sleepq and down into
sched_sleep(). This removes extra thread_lock() acquisition and
allows the scheduler to decide what to do with the static boost.
- Change the priority arguments to cv_* to match sleepq/msleep/etc.
where 0 means no priority change. Catch -1 in cv_broadcastpri() and
convert it to 0 for now.
- Set a flag when sleeping in a way that is compatible with swapping
since direct priority comparisons are meaningless now.
- Add a sysctl to ule, kern.sched.static_boost, that defaults to on which
controls the boost behavior. Turning it off gives better performance
in some workloads but needs more investigation.
- While we're modifying sleepq, change signal and broadcast to both
return with the lock held as the lock was held on enter.

Reviewed by: jhb, peter


# 4e7f640d 31-Mar-2007 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Optimize sx locks to use simple atomic operations for the common cases of
obtaining and releasing shared and exclusive locks. The algorithms for
manipulating the lock cookie are very similar to that rwlocks. This patch
also adds support for exclusive locks using the same algorithm as mutexes.

A new sx_init_flags() function has been added so that optional flags can be
specified to alter a given locks behavior. The flags include SX_DUPOK,
SX_NOWITNESS, SX_NOPROFILE, and SX_QUITE which are all identical in nature
to the similar flags for mutexes.

Adaptive spinning on select locks may be enabled by enabling the
ADAPTIVE_SX kernel option. Only locks initialized with the SX_ADAPTIVESPIN
flag via sx_init_flags() will adaptively spin.

The common cases for sx_slock(), sx_sunlock(), sx_xlock(), and sx_xunlock()
are now performed inline in non-debug kernels. As a result, <sys/sx.h> now
requires <sys/lock.h> to be included prior to <sys/sx.h>.

The new kernel option SX_NOINLINE can be used to disable the aforementioned
inlining in non-debug kernels.

The size of struct sx has changed, so the kernel ABI is probably greatly
disturbed.

MFC after: 1 month
Submitted by: attilio
Tested by: kris, pjd


# e7573e7a 09-Mar-2007 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Allow threads to atomically release rw and sx locks while waiting for an
event. Locking primitives that support this (mtx, rw, and sx) now each
include their own foo_sleep() routine.
- Rename msleep() to _sleep() and change it's 'struct mtx' object to a
'struct lock_object' pointer. _sleep() uses the recently added
lc_unlock() and lc_lock() function pointers for the lock class of the
specified lock to release the lock while the thread is suspended.
- Add wrappers around _sleep() for mutexes (mtx_sleep()), rw locks
(rw_sleep()), and sx locks (sx_sleep()). msleep() still exists and
is now identical to mtx_sleep(), but it is deprecated.
- Rename SLEEPQ_MSLEEP to SLEEPQ_SLEEP.
- Rewrite much of sleep.9 to not be msleep(9) centric.
- Flesh out the 'RETURN VALUES' section in sleep.9 and add an 'ERRORS'
section.
- Add __nonnull(1) to _sleep() and msleep_spin() so that the compiler will
warn if you try to pass a NULL wait channel. The functions already have
a KASSERT to that effect.


# 37e80fca 23-Feb-2007 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Add a new kernel sleep function pause(9). pause(9) is for places that
want an equivalent of DELAY(9) that sleeps instead of spins. It accepts
a wmesg and a timeout and is not interrupted by signals. It uses a private
wait channel that should never be woken up by wakeup(9) or wakeup_one(9).

Glanced at by: phk


# 6cbb70e2 15-Dec-2006 Kip Macy <kmacy@FreeBSD.org>

Add second sleep queue so that sx and lockmgr can have separate sleep
queues for shared and exclusive acquisitions

Submitted by: Attilio Rao
Approved by: jhb


# 7ee07175 15-Nov-2006 Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>

Change sleepq_add(9) argument from 'struct mtx *' to 'struct lock_object *',
which allows to use it with different kinds of locks. For example it allows
to implement Solaris conditions variables which will be used in ZFS port on
top of sx(9) locks.

Reviewed by: jhb


# 94f0972b 15-Feb-2006 David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>

Fix a long standing race between sleep queue and thread
suspension code. When a thread A is going to sleep, it calls
sleepq_catch_signals() to detect any pending signals or thread
suspension request, if nothing happens, it returns without
holding process lock or scheduler lock, this opens a race
window which allows thread B to come in and do process
suspension work, however since A is still at running state,
thread B can do nothing to A, thread A continues, and puts
itself into actually sleeping state, but B has never seen it,
and it sits there forever until B is woken up by other threads
sometimes later(this can be very long delay or never
happen). Fix this bug by forcing sleepq_catch_signals to
return with scheduler lock held.
Fix sleepq_abort() by passing it an interrupted code, previously,
it worked as wakeup_one(), and the interruption can not be
identified correctly by sleep queue code when the sleeping
thread is resumed.
Let thread_suspend_check() returns EINTR or ERESTART, so sleep
queue no longer has to use SIGSTOP as a hack to build a return
value.

Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 1 week


# 60727d8b 06-Jan-2005 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

/* -> /*- for license, minor formatting changes


# 2ff0e645 12-Oct-2004 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Refine the turnstile and sleep queue interfaces just a bit:
- Add a new _lock() call to each API that locks the associated chain lock
for a lock_object pointer or wait channel. The _lookup() functions now
require that the chain lock be locked via _lock() when they are called.
- Change sleepq_add(), turnstile_wait() and turnstile_claim() to lookup
the associated queue structure internally via _lookup() rather than
accepting a pointer from the caller. For turnstiles, this means that
the actual lookup of the turnstile in the hash table is only done when
the thread actually blocks rather than being done on each loop iteration
in _mtx_lock_sleep(). For sleep queues, this means that sleepq_lookup()
is no longer used outside of the sleep queue code except to implement an
assertion in cv_destroy().
- Change sleepq_broadcast() and sleepq_signal() to require that the chain
lock is already required. For condition variables, this lets the
cv_broadcast() and cv_signal() functions lock the sleep queue chain lock
while testing the waiters count. This means that the waiters count
internal to condition variables is no longer protected by the interlock
mutex and cv_broadcast() and cv_signal() now no longer require that the
interlock be held when they are called. This lets consumers of condition
variables drop the lock before waking other threads which can result in
fewer context switches.

MFC after: 1 month


# 007ddf7e 19-Aug-2004 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Now that the return value semantics of cv's for multithreaded processes
have been unified with that of msleep(9), further refine the sleepq
interface and consolidate some duplicated code:
- Move the pre-sleep checks for theaded processes into a
thread_sleep_check() function in kern_thread.c.
- Move all handling of TDF_SINTR to be internal to subr_sleepqueue.c.
Specifically, if a thread is awakened by something other than a signal
while checking for signals before going to sleep, clear TDF_SINTR in
sleepq_catch_signals(). This removes a sched_lock lock/unlock combo in
that edge case during an interruptible sleep. Also, fix
sleepq_check_signals() to properly handle the condition if TDF_SINTR is
clear rather than requiring the callers of the sleepq API to notice
this edge case and call a non-_sig variant of sleepq_wait().
- Clarify the flags arguments to sleepq_add(), sleepq_signal() and
sleepq_broadcast() by creating an explicit submask for sleepq types.
Also, add an explicit SLEEPQ_MSLEEP type rather than a magic number of
0. Also, add a SLEEPQ_INTERRUPTIBLE flag for use with sleepq_add() and
move the setting of TDF_SINTR to sleepq_add() if this flag is set rather
than sleepq_catch_signals(). Note that it is the caller's responsibility
to ensure that sleepq_catch_signals() is called if and only if this flag
is passed to the preceeding sleepq_add(). Note that this also removes a
sched_lock lock/unlock pair from sleepq_catch_signals(). It also ensures
that for an interruptible sleep, TDF_SINTR is always set when
TD_ON_SLEEPQ() is true.


# a5471e4e 28-Jun-2004 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Remove the signal_caught argument from sleepq_timedwait() as it was
effectively always zero.


# 1ed3e44f 12-Mar-2004 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

- Remove old sleep queues.
- Remove sleepqueue argument from sleepq_set_timeout() since it is not
used.


# dd75b0a9 27-Feb-2004 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Add an implementation of a generic sleep queue abstraction that is used
to queue threads sleeping on a wait channel similar to how turnstiles are
used to queue threads waiting for a lock. This subsystem will be used as
the backend for sleep/wakeup and condition variables initially. Eventually
it will also be used to replace the ithread-specific iwait thread
inhibitor.

Sleep queues are also not locked by sched_lock, so this splits sched_lock
up a bit further increasing concurrency within the scheduler. Sleep queues
also natively support timeouts on sleeps and interruptible sleeps allowing
for the reduction of a lot of duplicated code between the sleep/wakeup and
condition variable implementations. For more details on the sleep queue
implementation, check the comments in sys/sleepqueue.h and
kern/subr_sleepqueue.c.