Re: Who should set the priority of a select(2)ing thread being waken up?
From: Seigo Tanimura (tanimura_at_tanimura.dyndns.org)
Date: 10/22/03
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:21:46 +0900 To: arch@FreeBSD.org
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:19:16 +0900,
Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@tanimura.dyndns.org> said:
tanimura> In good old days, only a socket and a pipe were the major file
tanimura> descriptors being select(2)ed. As select(2) was just a socket
tanimura> operation, it was sufficient to set the priority of select(2)ing
tanimura> process to PSOCK(*1), I suppose.
tanimura> Nowadays, quite a few drivers support select(2) as well, including
tanimura> sound, usb, scsi controllers, and so on. I am not convinced whether a
tanimura> process should select(2) those devices at PSOCK as we do for a socket.
tanimura> Suppose that a process select(2)s for a pcm device and a socket at
tanimura> once. If the process is waken up by the pcm driver at PSOCK, another
tanimura> process at a better priority may preempt the first one, which can
tanimura> result in dropping some pcm data.
tanimura> Maybe it would be better if the caller of selwakeup() could determine
tanimura> the priority of a process or a thread. That would let us raise the
tanimura> priority to PRIBIO if pcm data was ready, while the priority would
tanimura> stay at PSOCK if the socket was ready.
tanimura> (*1) I broke that in 5-CURRENT when I modified select(2) and poll(2)
tanimura> to use a conditional variable.
The attached patch implements selwakeuppri(), which lets you set the
priority of a thread being waken up. Also in the patch is a small
test code to use selwakeuppri() in pcm(4).
Comments are welcome, thanks in advance.
-- Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@tanimura.dyndns.org> <tanimura@FreeBSD.org>
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