Many changes to code structure are included:
- removed TIME_SLICE_IN_MS
- removed sychronized_indexed_list
- removed region_owned
- kernel_owned move to kernel.h, task_owned moved to task.h
- global configs moved to rust_globals.h
- changed #pragma once to standard guard in rust_upcall.h
- got rid of memory.h
rust_sched_launcher is actually responsible for setting up the thread and
starting the loop. There will be other implementations that do not actually
set up a new thread, in order to support scheduling tasks on the main OS
thread.
Remove the random context from rust_scheduler and use a simple round robin system to choose which thread a new task gets put on. Also, some incorrect tab indents around scoped blocks were fixed.
This makes the kernel join every scheduler thread before exiting in order to
ensure that all threads are completely terminated before the process exits. On
my machine, for 32-bit targets, this was causing regular valgrind errors.
This is in preparation for giving schedulers their own life cycle separate
from the kernel.
Tasks must be deleted before their scheduler thread, so we can't let the
scheduler exit before all its tasks have been cleaned up. In this scheme,
the scheduler will unregister tasks with the kernel when they are reaped,
then drop their ref on the task (there may still be others). When the task
ref count hits zero, the task will request to be unregistered from the
scheduler, which is responsible for deleting the task.
Instead of having the kernel tell the scheduler to exit, let the scheduler
decide when to exit. For now it will exit when all of its tasks are
unregistered.
Instead of joining on the scheduler threads, instead keep a count of active
schedulers. When there are no more schedulers raise a signal for the main
thread to continue.
This will be required once schedulers can be added and removed from the
running kernel.
At the moment there's not really any reason to be raising this signal,
since they schedulers wake up periodically anyway, but once we remove
the timer this will be how the schedulers know to exit.
When the kernel fails, kill all tasks and wait for the schedulers to stop
instead of just exiting. I'm sure there are tons of lurking issues here but
this is enough to fail without leaking (at least in the absence of cleanups).
This is the new way to refer to tasks in rust-land. Currently all they
do is serve as a key to look up the old rust_task structure. Ideally
they won't be ref counted, but baby steps.
getenv is not threadsafe and (maybe as a result) it's randomly crashing with
CFLAGS=-g and RUST_THREADS=32. Calls from rust code are still on their
own.
Tasks are spawned on a random thread. Currently they stay there, but
we should add task migration and load balancing in the future. This
should drammatically improve our task performance benchmarks.
