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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] UML hangs with hrtimer test module
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 22:34:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5210954.RitFgLWNVY@blindfold> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=GYpbAfqdEquXWdvHwrxaPQwi8Dyh=j9+6=SpwZ3zqnKSq0Q@mail.gmail.com>

Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2018, 22:20:47 CEST schrieb Joel Fernandes:
> Thanks a lot! I am wondering why the same compiler works when running
> the test for a regular image. Maybe different compiler flags. Anyway
> good to learn this.
> 
> Also one more slightly OT question, why is UML only doing UP ? Is it
> extremely hard to do SMP for UML?

Long story short, nobody implemented SMP so far. :-)
Because SKAS3/0 we had a SMP implementation of TT mode.

In terms of UML implementing SMP means having multiple threads
that handle the userspace loop in arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c.

We could also do a poor man's SMP implementation first, where only user 
processes run in parallel.
IOW userspace() in arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c is still a single thread 
but it let's run up to N user space thread and only if the call into the 
kernel we degrade to UP.

Adding SMP is not extremely hard but it requires a lot of re-work of the UML 
core and introduces tons of new issues.

That said, volunteers are welcome!

Thanks,
//richard


      reply	other threads:[~2018-03-29 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-28 10:28 [uml-devel] UML hangs with hrtimer test module Joel Fernandes
2018-03-28 11:04 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-03-28 13:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-03-28 13:19   ` Richard Weinberger
2018-03-28 22:19     ` Joel Fernandes
2018-03-28 22:35       ` Richard Weinberger
2018-03-29  6:04         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-03-29 20:20           ` Joel Fernandes
2018-03-29 20:34             ` Richard Weinberger [this message]

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