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authorSebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>2017-02-01 13:23:14 +0100
committerSebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>2017-02-01 13:23:14 +0100
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c-user: Update task migration
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+++ b/c-user/symmetric_multiprocessing_services.rst
@@ -128,46 +128,26 @@ Task Migration
.. index:: thread migration
With more than one processor in the system tasks can migrate from one processor
-to another. There are three reasons why tasks migrate in RTEMS.
+to another. There are four reasons why tasks migrate in RTEMS.
-- The scheduler changes explicitly via ``rtems_task_set_scheduler()`` or
- similar directives.
+- The scheduler changes explicitly via
+ :ref:`rtems_task_set_scheduler() <rtems_task_set_scheduler>` or similar
+ directives.
+
+- The task processor affinity changes explicitly via
+ :ref:`rtems_task_set_affinity() <rtems_task_set_affinity>` or similar
+ directives.
- The task resumes execution after a blocking operation. On a priority based
scheduler it will evict the lowest priority task currently assigned to a
processor in the processor set managed by the scheduler instance.
- The task moves temporarily to another scheduler instance due to locking
- protocols like *Migratory Priority Inheritance* or the *Multiprocessor
- Resource Sharing Protocol*.
+ protocols like the :ref:`MrsP` or the :ref:`OMIP`.
Task migration should be avoided so that the working set of a task can stay on
the most local cache level.
-The current implementation of task migration in RTEMS has some implications
-with respect to the interrupt latency. It is crucial to preserve the system
-invariant that a task can execute on at most one processor in the system at a
-time. This is accomplished with a boolean indicator in the task context. The
-processor architecture specific low-level task context switch code will mark
-that a task context is no longer executing and waits that the heir context
-stopped execution before it restores the heir context and resumes execution of
-the heir task. So there is one point in time in which a processor is without a
-task. This is essential to avoid cyclic dependencies in case multiple tasks
-migrate at once. Otherwise some supervising entity is necessary to prevent
-life-locks. Such a global supervisor would lead to scalability problems so
-this approach is not used. Currently the thread dispatch is performed with
-interrupts disabled. So in case the heir task is currently executing on
-another processor then this prolongs the time of disabled interrupts since one
-processor has to wait for another processor to make progress.
-
-It is difficult to avoid this issue with the interrupt latency since interrupts
-normally store the context of the interrupted task on its stack. In case a
-task is marked as not executing we must not use its task stack to store such an
-interrupt context. We cannot use the heir stack before it stopped execution on
-another processor. So if we enable interrupts during this transition we have
-to provide an alternative task independent stack for this time frame. This
-issue needs further investigation.
-
Clustered Scheduling
--------------------