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TODO

Last Updated: July 18, 2018

Planned

  • Try fully-associative pcache, to see how many conflict misses can be removed (got the idea from HPCA18 google search paper)
  • kmem_cache
  • TSC deadline mode (one-shot tick). What is the performance comparison with periodic mode?
  • batched TLB flush
  • __unhash_process(): in exit, release pid etc.

  • de_thread(): in exec, change pid etc.

  • posix timers: used by exit(), wait() and others. Functions like posix_cpu_timers_exit_group.

  • vDSO: if later we find applications are using gettimeofday, time, and getcpu a lot, and it truly hurt performance, then we should consider adding this in the processor side. (Check Processor Loader document for code that needs to be patched). (02/27/18)

  • VA randomization: our loader does not add any randomization. For security reasons, we probably want to add this.

  • VM Organization: multiple vm choice at M side, on a per-vma basis.

  • fork: dup free pool: duplicate the free VA pool at both P and M.

  • pcache: send each page’s type back. something like PcacheAnon, PcacheFile. So the pcache_evict/do_exit routine can be optimized.

  • mm alloc: don’t use the kmalloc to get a new mm_struct. This is a hot data structure, use get_free_page instead maybe. Like task_struct.

  • fork_dup_pcache: have real vm_flags to guide write-protect. Get vm ranges from memory to optimize the duplication. Currently, all pages will be downgraded to read-only.

  • P side mm sem: check if we need the sem in P side. pgfault need read, fork and others need W. Even though M side also serialize this, but out ops are divided.

  • mprotect: it is empty now. We assume applications are well-written. But does any of them rely on this COW feature?

  • CPU_NO_HZ: disable timer for some cores, to reduce the overhead of timer interrupts. This is named CPU_NO_HZ and some similar Kconfigs.

  • SYSCALL: compared with linux, we are always using the slow path, which pass all arguments. We should consider optimize this. OS-intensive applications may hurt.

  • IB: reply is a sg list. Esp benefit pcache.

Finished

  • -vsyscall: mostly emulation-
Last update: July 19, 2018

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