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Commit d26c7122 authored by Yong Cong Sin's avatar Yong Cong Sin Committed by Anas Nashif
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arch: add new interfaces to set/get the current thread of current CPU



Add the following arch-specific APIs:
- arch_curr_thread()
- arch_set_curr_thread()

which allow SMP architectures to implement a faster "get current
thread pointer" than the default provided by the kernel. The 'set'
function is required for the 'get' to work, more on that later.

When `CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CUSTOM_CURRENT_IMPL` is selected, calls to
`_current` & `k_sched_current_thread_query()` will be redirected to
`arch_curr_thread()`, which ideally should translate into a single
instruction read, avoiding the current
"lock > read CPU > read current thread > unlock" path in SMP
architectures and thus greatly improves the read performance.

However, since the kernel relies on a copy of the "current thread"s on
every CPU for certain operations (i.e. to compare the priority of the
currently scheduled thread on another CPU to determine if IPI should be
sent), we can't eliminate the copy of "current thread" (`current`) from
the `struct _cpu` and therefore the kernel now has to invoke
`arch_set_curr_thread()` in addition to what it has been doing. This
means that it will take slightly longer (most likely one instruction
write) to change the current thread pointer on the current
CPU.

Signed-off-by: default avatarYong Cong Sin <ycsin@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYong Cong Sin <yongcong.sin@gmail.com>
parent 9f2a7a7c
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