Add basic support for the Multiprocessor Resource Sharing Protocol
(MrsP).
The Multiprocessor Resource Sharing Protocol (MrsP) is defined in A.
Burns and A.J. Wellings, A Schedulability Compatible Multiprocessor
Resource Sharing Protocol - MrsP, Proceedings of the 25th Euromicro
Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2013), July 2013. It is a
generalization of the Priority Ceiling Protocol to SMP systems. Each
MrsP semaphore uses a ceiling priority per scheduler instance. These
ceiling priorities can be specified with rtems_semaphore_set_priority().
A task obtaining or owning a MrsP semaphore will execute with the
ceiling priority for its scheduler instance as specified by the MrsP
semaphore object. Tasks waiting to get ownership of a MrsP semaphore
will not relinquish the processor voluntarily. In case the owner of a
MrsP semaphore gets preempted it can ask all tasks waiting for this
semaphore to help out and temporarily borrow the right to execute on one
of their assigned processors.
The help out feature is not implemented with this patch.
Clustered/partitioned scheduling helps to control the worst-case
latencies in the system. The goal is to reduce the amount of shared
state in the system and thus prevention of lock contention. Modern
multi-processor systems tend to have several layers of data and
instruction caches. With clustered/partitioned scheduling it is
possible to honour the cache topology of a system and thus avoid
expensive cache synchronization traffic.
We have clustered scheduling in case the set of processors of a system
is partitioned into non-empty pairwise-disjoint subsets. These subsets
are called clusters. Clusters with a cardinality of one are partitions.
Each cluster is owned by exactly one scheduler instance.
Do not allocate the scheduler control structures from the workspace.
This is a preparation step for configuration of clustered/partitioned
schedulers on SMP.
This simplifies the RTEMS initialization and helps to avoid a memory
overhead. The workspace demands of the IO manager were not included in
the <rtems/confdefs.h> workspace size estimate. This is also fixed as a
side-effect.
Update documentation and move "Specifying Application Defined Device
Driver Table" to the section end. This sub-section is not that
important for the user. Mentioning this at the beginning may lead to
confusion.
This patch includes a heavy rewrite of the chapter to have a more
structured approach to this chapter. It also changes the sectioning
to have the Data Structures be a section to themselves as a peer in the
outline with each logical area of macros in confdefs.h.
Script does what is expected and tries to do it as
smartly as possible.
+ remove occurrences of two blank comment lines
next to each other after Id string line removed.
+ remove entire comment blocks which only exited to
contain CVS Ids
+ If the processing left a blank line at the top of
a file, it was removed.
Adds to confdefs a way to specify rtems_resource_unlimited for classic and
posix objects using a new macro CONFIGURE_OBJECTS_UNLIMITED.
Use CONFIGURE_OBJECTS_ALLOCATION_SIZE to declare the allocation size for
extending the set of objects at runtime. Updates the unlimited sample
to demonstrate how to use the new macros. Also adds new documentation in
the C User's Manual regarding configuring with unlimited objects.
PR 1743/cpu
* user/conf.t: Add Simple Priority Scheduler as complement to existing
Deterministic Priority Scheduler. This scheduler serves both as an
example and as a lighter weight implementation for smaller systems.
PR 1647/cpukit
* user/conf.t, user/schedule.t: Update documentation to reflect
refactoring of SuperCore to add Scheduler and ability for user to
configure a scheduler.
* user/conf.t: Add configuration of posix message queue file
descriptors as separate entity. Also add documentation on posix
configuration elements not previously covered.
* user/conf.t, user/region.t: Change sizes of heap/region and allocated
objects in heap to intptr_t so they can be larger than a single
allocatable object (e.g. size_t).
