With external time travel, a LOT of message can end up
being exchanged on the socket, taking a significant
amount of time just to do that.
Add a new shared memory optimisation to that, where a
number of changes are made:
- the controller sends a client ID and a shared memory FD
(and a logging FD we don't use) in the ACK message to
the initial START
- the shared memory holds the current time and the
free_until value, so that there's no need to exchange
messages for that
- if the client that's running has shared memory support,
any client (the running one included) can request the
next time it wants to run inside the shared memory,
rather than sending a message, by also updating the
free_until value
- when shared memory is enabled, RUN/WAIT messages no
longer have an ACK, further cutting down on messages
Together, this can reduce the number of messages very
significantly, and reduce overall test/simulation run time.
Co-developed-by: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240702192118.6ad0a083f574.Ie41206c8ce4507fe26b991937f47e86c24ca7a31@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Johannes Berg
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