This commit uniforms the short title of modules provided by libstd,
in order to make their roles more explicit when glancing at the index.
Signed-off-by: Luca Bruno <lucab@debian.org>
This test also had a race condition in using the cvar/lock, so I fixed that up
as well. The race originated from one half trying to destroy the lock when
another half was using it.
The scheduler pool now has a much more simplified interface. There is now a
clear distinction between creating the pool and then interacting the pool. When
a pool is created, all schedulers are not active, and only later if a spawn is
done does activity occur.
There are four operations that you can do on a pool:
1. Create a new pool. The only argument to this function is the configuration
for the scheduler pool. Currently the only configuration parameter is the
number of threads to initially spawn.
2. Spawn a task into this pool. This takes a procedure and task configuration
options and spawns a new task into the pool of schedulers.
3. Spawn a new scheduler into the pool. This will return a handle on which to
communicate with the scheduler in order to do something like a pinned task.
4. Shut down the scheduler pool. This will consume the scheduler pool, request
all of the schedulers to shut down, and then wait on all the scheduler
threads. Currently this will block the invoking OS thread, but I plan on
making 'Thread::join' not a thread-blocking call.
These operations can be used to encode all current usage of M:N schedulers, as
well as providing a simple interface through which a pool can be modified. There
is currently no way to remove a scheduler from a pool of scheduler, as there's
no way to guarantee that a scheduler has exited. This may be added in the
future, however (as necessary).
This extracts everything related to green scheduling from libstd and introduces
a new libgreen crate. This mostly involves deleting most of std::rt and moving
it to libgreen.
Along with the movement of code, this commit rearchitects many functions in the
scheduler in order to adapt to the fact that Local::take now *only* works on a
Task, not a scheduler. This mostly just involved threading the current green
task through in a few locations, but there were one or two spots where things
got hairy.
There are a few repercussions of this commit:
* tube/rc have been removed (the runtime implementation of rc)
* There is no longer a "single threaded" spawning mode for tasks. This is now
encompassed by 1:1 scheduling + communication. Convenience methods have been
introduced that are specific to libgreen to assist in the spawning of pools of
schedulers.
