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2019-10-01Disable cpuClockTicker when app is idleMichael Pratt
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
2019-06-13Update canonical repository.Adin Scannell
This can be merged after: https://github.com/google/gvisor-website/pull/77 or https://github.com/google/gvisor-website/pull/78 PiperOrigin-RevId: 253132620
2019-04-29Change copyright notice to "The gVisor Authors"Michael Pratt
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
2018-10-19Use correct company name in copyright headerIan Gudger
PiperOrigin-RevId: 217951017 Change-Id: Ie08bf6987f98467d07457bcf35b5f1ff6e43c035
2018-08-23Implement POSIX per-process interval timers.Jamie Liu
PiperOrigin-RevId: 210021612 Change-Id: If7c161e6fd08cf17942bfb6bc5a8d2c4e271c61e