Kernel.cpuClockTicker increments kernel.cpuClock, which tasks use as a clock to
track their CPU usage. This improves latency in the syscall path by avoid
expensive monotonic clock calls on every syscall entry/exit.
However, this timer fires every 10ms. Thus, when all tasks are idle (i.e.,
blocked or stopped), this forces a sentry wakeup every 10ms, when we may
otherwise be able to sleep until the next app-relevant event. These wakeups
cause the sentry to utilize approximately 2% CPU when the application is
otherwise idle.
Updates to clock are not strictly necessary when the app is idle, as there are
no readers of cpuClock. This commit reduces idle CPU by disabling the timer
when tasks are completely idle, and computing its effects at the next wakeup.
Rather than disabling the timer as soon as the app goes idle, we wait until the
next tick, which provides a window for short sleeps to sleep and wakeup without
doing the (relatively) expensive work of disabling and enabling the timer.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 272265822
We don't have the plumbing for btime yet, so that field is left off. The
returned mask indicates that btime is absent.
Fixes#343
PiperOrigin-RevId: 254575752
Based on the guidelines at
https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/authors/.
1. $ rg -l "Google LLC" | xargs sed -i 's/Google LLC.*/The gVisor Authors./'
2. Manual fixup of "Google Inc" references.
3. Add AUTHORS file. Authors may request to be added to this file.
4. Point netstack AUTHORS to gVisor AUTHORS. Drop CONTRIBUTORS.
Fixes#209
PiperOrigin-RevId: 245823212
Change-Id: I64530b24ad021a7d683137459cafc510f5ee1de9
Nothing reads them and they can simply get stale.
Generated with:
$ sed -i "s/licenses(\(.*\)).*/licenses(\1)/" **/BUILD
PiperOrigin-RevId: 231818945
Change-Id: Ibc3f9838546b7e94f13f217060d31f4ada9d4bf0
This reduces the number of goroutines and runtime timers when
ITIMER_VIRTUAL or ITIMER_PROF are enabled, or when RLIMIT_CPU is set.
This also ensures that thread group CPU timers only advance if running
tasks are observed at the time the CPU clock advances, mostly
eliminating the possibility that a CPU timer expiration observes no
running tasks and falls back to the group leader.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 217603396
Change-Id: Ia24ce934d5574334857d9afb5ad8ca0b6a6e65f4
We have been unnecessarily creating too many savable types implicitly.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 206334201
Change-Id: Idc5a3a14bfb7ee125c4f2bb2b1c53164e46f29a8
Michael Pratt
Nicolas Lacasse
Adin Scannell
Ian Gudger
Jamie Liu
Zhaozhong Ni
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