Grammar and Spelling Reviewed by: mpp
While mpp kindly checked grammar and spelling, any technical errors
remaining in the man pages are entirely of mine.
into uipc_mbuf.c. This reduces three sets of identical tunable code to
one set, and puts the initialisation with the mbuf code proper.
Make NMBUFs tunable as well.
Move the nmbclusters sysctl here as well.
Move the initialisation of maxsockets from param.c to uipc_socket2.c,
next to its corresponding sysctl.
Use the new tunable macros for the kern.vm.kmem.size tunable (this should have
been in a separate commit, whoops).
print_AMD_info(), L2 internal cache is shown, as are AMD's special CPUID
infos:
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.81-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping=12
Features=0x8021bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX>
AMD Features=0x808029bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SYSCALL,PGE,MMX,3DNow!>
PR: kern/12512
Submitted by: Louis A. Mamakos <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cache discarded default thread stacks for use in subsequent thread creations.
Create a red zone at the end of each stack (including the initial thread
stack), with the hope of causing a segfault if a stack overflows.
To activate these modifications, add -D_PTHREAD_GSTACK to CFLAGS in
src/lib/libc_r/Makefile. Since the modifications depend on the VM_STACK
kernel option, I'm not sure how to safely use growable stacks by default.
Testing, as well as algorithmic and stylistic comments are welcome.
returns 0 after ptrace() attach and/or detach doesn't quite quite
deliver a signal. Perhaps the process shouldn't be woken in this
case, but avoiding the problem is easy.
PR: 12247
Fixed a couple of places where mechanical fixing of compiler warnings
caused misspelling of NOLOCKF as NULL.
frames (or just insane received packet lengths generated due to errors
reading from the NIC's internal buffers). Anything too large to fit
safely into an mbuf cluster buffer is discarded and an error logged.
I have not observed this problem with my own cards, but on user has
reported it and adding the sanity test seems reasonable in any case.
Problem noted and patch provided by: Per Andersson <per@cdg.chalmers.se>
of the additional checks in rev.1.12 was wrong. The others are a
bit inconsistent and are probably unnecessarily pessimal. Checking
for overflow of addition, if necessary at all, should be done in
bpf_validate().
PR: 12484
we will never use more memory than this value (if specified), but will always
check memory for validity up to this amount.
Get rid of the speculative_mprobe option; the memory amount can now be
specified by hw.physmem.
allow changes to the filesystem's write_behind behavior. By the
default the filesystem aggressively issues write_behind's. Three values
may be specified for vfs.write_behind. 0 disables write_behind, 1 results
in historical operation (agressive write_behind), and 2 is an experimental
backed-off write_behind. The values of 0 and 1 are recommended. The value
of 0 is recommended in conjuction with an increase in the number of
NBUF's and the number of dirty buffers allowed (vfs.{lo,hi}dirtybuffers).
Note that a value of 0 will radically increase the dirty buffer load on
the system. Future work on write_behind behavior will use values 2 and
greater for testing purposes.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
QUEUE_AGE, QUEUE_LRU, and QUEUE_EMPTY we instead have QUEUE_CLEAN,
QUEUE_DIRTY, QUEUE_EMPTY, and QUEUE_EMPTYKVA. With this patch clean
and dirty buffers have been separated. Empty buffers with KVM
assignments have been separated from truely empty buffers. getnewbuf()
has been rewritten and now operates in a 100% optimal fashion. That is,
it is able to find precisely the right kind of buffer it needs to
allocate a new buffer, defragment KVM, or to free-up an existing buffer
when the buffer cache is full (which is a steady-state situation for
the buffer cache).
Buffer flushing has been reorganized. Previously buffers were flushed
in the context of whatever process hit the conditions forcing buffer
flushing to occur. This resulted in processes blocking on conditions
unrelated to what they were doing. This also resulted in inappropriate
VFS stacking chains due to multiple processes getting stuck trying to
flush dirty buffers or due to a single process getting into a situation
where it might attempt to flush buffers recursively - a situation that
was only partially fixed in prior commits. We have added a new daemon
called the buf_daemon which is responsible for flushing dirty buffers
when the number of dirty buffers exceeds the vfs.hidirtybuffers limit.
This daemon attempts to dynamically adjust the rate at which dirty buffers
are flushed such that getnewbuf() calls (almost) never block.
The number of nbufs and amount of buffer space is now scaled past the
8MB limit that was previously imposed for systems with over 64MB of
memory, and the vfs.{lo,hi}dirtybuffers limits have been relaxed
somewhat. The number of physical buffers has been increased with the
intention that we will manage physical I/O differently in the future.
reassignbuf previously attempted to keep the dirtyblkhd list sorted which
could result in non-deterministic operation under certain conditions,
such as when a large number of dirty buffers are being managed. This
algorithm has been changed. reassignbuf now keeps buffers locally sorted
if it can do so cheaply, and otherwise gives up and adds buffers to
the head of the dirtyblkhd list. The new algorithm is deterministic but
not perfect. The new algorithm greatly reduces problems that previously
occured when write_behind was turned off in the system.
The P_FLSINPROG proc->p_flag bit has been replaced by the more descriptive
P_BUFEXHAUST bit. This bit allows processes working with filesystem
buffers to use available emergency reserves. Normal processes do not set
this bit and are not allowed to dig into emergency reserves. The purpose
of this bit is to avoid low-memory deadlocks.
A small race condition was fixed in getpbuf() in vm/vm_pager.c.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
zero traps. I actually can't believe that this compiler is *sooooo* stupid
that it did a divide when there was 1024L*1024L instead of a right shift by
20. When we get quad type modifiers in kernel printf we can change to this
too (to avoid overflow on > terabyte disk sizes).
