How to change quantum in xv6? [duplicate] - operating-system

Question

Right now it seems that on every click tick, the running process is preempted and forced to yield the processor, I have thoroughly investigated the code-base and the only relevant part of the code to process preemption is below (in trap.c):
// Force process to give up CPU on clock tick.
// If interrupts were on while locks held, would need to check nlock.
if(myproc() && myproc() -> state == RUNNING && tf -> trapno == T_IRQ0 + IRQ_TIMER)
yield();
I guess that timing is specified in T_IRQ0 + IRQ_TIMER, but I can't figure out how these two can be modified, these two are specified in trap.h:
#define T_IRQ0 32 // IRQ 0 corresponds to int T_IRQ
#define IRQ_TIMER 0
I wonder how I can change the default RR scheduling time-slice (which is right now 1 clock tick, fir example make it 10 clock-tick)?

Answer 1

If you want a process to be executed more time than the others, you can allow it more timeslices, *without` changing the timeslice duration.
To do so, you can add some extra_slice and current_slice in struct proc and modify the TIMER trap handler this way:
if(myproc() && myproc()->state == RUNNING &&
tf->trapno == T_IRQ0+IRQ_TIMER)
{
int current = myproc()->current_slice;
if ( current )
myproc()->current_slice = current - 1;
else
yield();
}
Then you just have to create a syscall to set extra_slice and modify the scheduler function to reset current_slice to extra_slice at process wakeup:
// Switch to chosen process. It is the process's job
// to release ptable.lock and then reacquire it
// before jumping back to us.
c->proc = p;
switchuvm(p);
p->state = RUNNING;
p->current_slice = p->extra_slice

Answer 2

You can read lapic.c file:
lapicinit(void)
{
....
// The timer repeatedly counts down at bus frequency
// from lapic[TICR] and then issues an interrupt.
// If xv6 cared more about precise timekeeping,
// TICR would be calibrated using an external time source.
lapicw(TDCR, X1);
lapicw(TIMER, PERIODIC | (T_IRQ0 + IRQ_TIMER));
lapicw(TICR, 10000000);
So, if you want the timer interrupt to be more spaced, change the TICR value:
lapicw(TICR, 10000000); //10 000 000
can become
lapicw(TICR, 100000000); //100 000 000
Warning, TICR references a 32bits unsigned counter, do not go over 4 294 967 295 (0xFFFFFFFF)