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 still only advertise a single NUMA node, and ignore mempolicy
accordingly, but mbind() at least now succeeds and has effects reflected
by get_mempolicy().
Also fix handling of nodemasks: round sizes to unsigned long (as
documented and done by Linux), and zero trailing bits when copying them
out.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 251950859
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
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
Rahat Mahmood
Michael Pratt
Adin Scannell
Jamie Liu
Ian Gudger
Zhaozhong Ni
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