Threads: Use a dummy idle thread when no other are ready.

This thread will not actually execute instructions, it will only advance the timing/events and try to yield immediately to the next ready thread, if there aren't any ready threads then it will be rescheduled and start its job again.
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Subv 2015-01-07 10:10:58 -05:00
parent b659cac2dc
commit 60a373a786
4 changed files with 47 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include "common/common_types.h"
#include "core/core.h"
#include "core/core_timing.h"
#include "core/settings.h"
#include "core/arm/disassembler/arm_disasm.h"
@ -23,7 +24,17 @@ ARM_Interface* g_sys_core = nullptr; ///< ARM11 system (OS) core
/// Run the core CPU loop
void RunLoop(int tight_loop) {
g_app_core->Run(tight_loop);
// If the current thread is an idle thread, then don't execute instructions,
// instead advance to the next event and try to yield to the next thread
if (Kernel::IsIdleThread(Kernel::GetCurrentThreadHandle())) {
LOG_TRACE(Core_ARM11, "Idling");
CoreTiming::Idle();
CoreTiming::Advance();
HLE::Reschedule(__func__);
} else {
g_app_core->Run(tight_loop);
}
HW::Update();
if (HLE::g_reschedule) {
Kernel::Reschedule();