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author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100 |
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committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100 |
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Revert "rename open_issues.mdwn to service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663.mdwn"
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diff --git a/open_issues/mach_migrating_threads.mdwn b/open_issues/mach_migrating_threads.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..16547838 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/mach_migrating_threads.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_gnumach]] + +<http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/os/thread-migrate.pdf> + + * [[microkernel/mach/memory_object/discussion]] + + * [[resource_management_problems]] + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-08-13 + +In context of [[resource_management_problems]]. + + <braunr> and thread migration itself is something very confusing + <braunr> it's better to think of it as scheduling context inheritance + <teythoon> braunr: I read the paper I mentioned and then I wanted to find + the sources they modified + <teythoon> I failed + <teythoon> I hate scientific paper about software that fail to provide the + source code + <teythoon> that's not science imho b/c it's not reproducible + <braunr> i have some osf source code here + <braunr> i'll send it if you want + <teythoon> ah interesting + <braunr> but really, when you dive into it, thread migration is merely + scheduling context inheritance with kernel upcalls + <braunr> it's good + <teythoon> I searched for osf mach but google didn't turned up anything + <braunr> but it has nothing to do with resource accounting + <braunr> (well, it may hepl better account for cpu time actually) + <braunr> help* + <braunr> but that's all + <teythoon> why is that all? wouldn't that be transitive and could also be + used for i/o accounting? + <teythoon> also I tried to find alternative mach implementations + <teythoon> I wasn't terribly successful, and some sites are gone or + unmaintained for years :/ + <braunr> we don't need that for io accountin + <braunr> g + <braunr> thread migration is a kernel property + <braunr> on mach with userspace drivers, io isn't + <braunr> mach should only control cpu and memory + <braunr> and you though you can account physical memory, you can't transfer + virtual memory accounting from one task to another + <teythoon> yes, but once all of those resources can be accounted to the + thread initiating whatever it needs doing, shouldn't that be much easier? + <braunr> teythoon: it's not required for that + <braunr> teythoon: keep in mind userspace sees activations + <braunr> in a thread migration enabled kernel, activations are what we + usually call threads, and threads are scheduling contexts + <teythoon> braunr: ok, so TM is not required for accounting, but surely + it's a good thing to have, no? + <braunr> teythoon: it's required for cpu accounting only + <braunr> which is very important :) + <braunr> if you look carefully, you'll see hurd servers are what use most + cpu + <braunr> there is now easy way to know which application actually uses the + server + <braunr> i personally tend to think more and more that servers *should* + impersonate clients + <braunr> TM (or rather, scheduling context inheritance) is one step + <braunr> it's not enough exactly because it doesn't help with resource + accounting + <braunr> teythoon: + ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/mklinux-pre-R1/SRPMS/sources/osfmk.tar.gz + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-09-02 + +[[!taglink open_issue_documentation]]: move information to +[[microkernel/mach/history]]. + + <teythoon> braunr: btw, I just noticed lot's of #ifdef MIGRATING_THREADS in + gnumach, so there was some work being done in that direction? + <braunr> gnumach is a fork of mach4 + <braunr> at a stage whre migration was being worked on, yes + <teythoon> from what I've gathered, gnumach is the only surviving mach4 + fork, right? + <braunr> yes + <braunr> well + <braunr> the macos x version is probably one too + <braunr> i don't know + <teythoon> oh? I read that it was based on mach3 + <braunr> it is + <braunr> i can't tell how much of mach3 versus mach4 it has, and if it's + relevant at all + <teythoon> and the osfmach, was that also based on mach4? + <braunr> yes + <teythoon> ok, fair enough + <braunr> that's why i think macos x is based on it too + <braunr> i initially downloaded osfmach sources to see an example of how + thread migration was used from userspace + <braunr> and they do have a special threading library for that + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-18 + + <teythoon> has anyone here ever tried to enable the thread migration bits + in gnumach to see where things break and how far that effort has been + taken ? + <braunr> without proper userspace support, i don't see how this could work + <teythoon> but is the kernel part finished or close to being finished ? + <braunr> no idea + <braunr> i don't think it is + <braunr> i didn't see much code related to that feature, and practically + none that looked like what the paper described + <braunr> some structures, but not used |