syscall path inward. A system call may select whether it needs the MP
lock or not (the default being that it does need it).
A great deal of conditional SMP code for various deadended experiments
has been removed. 'cil' and 'cml' have been removed entirely, and the
locking around the cpl has been removed. The conditional
separately-locked fast-interrupt code has been removed, meaning that
interrupts must hold the CPL now (but they pretty much had to anyway).
Another reason for doing this is that the original separate-lock for
interrupts just doesn't apply to the interrupt thread mechanism being
contemplated.
Modifications to the cpl may now ONLY occur while holding the MP
lock. For example, if an otherwise MP safe syscall needs to mess with
the cpl, it must hold the MP lock for the duration and must (as usual)
save/restore the cpl in a nested fashion.
This is precursor work for the real meat coming later: avoiding having
to hold the MP lock for common syscalls and I/O's and interrupt threads.
It is expected that the spl mechanisms and new interrupt threading
mechanisms will be able to run in tandem, allowing a slow piecemeal
transition to occur.
This patch should result in a moderate performance improvement due to
the considerable amount of code that has been removed from the critical
path, especially the simplification of the spl*() calls. The real
performance gains will come later.
Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: current, bde (exception.s)
Some work taken from: luoqi's patch
address size that is different than the standard 6bits. This fixes
support for the Compaq NC3121 card, certain newer Intel Pro/100+
cards, and should also fix integrated NICs on SuperMicro and Compaq
motherboards.
The auto-sizing algorithm was taken from NetBSD (thanks!), which I
think got it from Linux originally.
Thanks also to Andrew Sparrow <spadger@best.com> and Joe Moore
<jomor@ahpcns.com> for supplying me with unworking Compaq and Intel
cards to develop and test the fixes with.
- Don't hard code 0x10000 as the entry point for the loader. Instead add
src/sys/boot/i386/Makefile.inc which defines a make variable with the
entry point for the loader. Move the loader's entry point up to
0x20000, which makes PXE happy.
- Don't try to use cpp to parse btxldr for the optional BTXLDR_VERBOSE,
instead use m4 to achieve this. Also, add a BTXLDR_VERBOSE knob in the
btxldr Makefile to turn this option on.
- Redo parts of cdldr's Makefile so that it now builds and installs cdboot
instead of having i386/loader/Makefile do that. Also, add in some more
variables to make the pxeldr Makefile almost identical and thus to ease
maintainability.
- Teach cdldr about the a.out format. Cdldr now parsers the a.out header
of the loader binary and relocates it based on that. The entry point of
the loader no longer has to be hardcoded into cdldr. Also, the boot
info table from mkisofs is no longer required to get a useful cdboot.
- Update the lsdev function for BIOS disks to parse other file systems
(such as DOS FAT) that we currently support. This is still buggy as
it assumes that a floppy with a DOS boot sector actually has a MBR and
parses it as such. I'll be fixing this in the future.
- The biggie: Add in support for booting off of PXE-enabled network
adapters. Currently, we use the TFTP API provided by the PXE BIOS.
Eventually we will switch to using the low-level NIC driver thus
allowing both TFTP and NFS to be used, but for now it's just TFTP.
Submitted by: ps, alfred
Testing by: Benno Rice <benno@netizen.com.au>
reserve, in maximal NFS packets. Originally only 2 packets worth of
space was reserved. The default is now 4, which appears to greatly
improve performance for slow to mid-speed machines on gigabit networks.
Add documentation and correct some prior documentation.
Problem Researched by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Approved by: jkh
fragmentation problem due to geteblk() reserving too much space for the
buffer and imposes a larger granularity (16K) on KVA reservations for
the buffer cache to avoid fragmentation issues. The buffer cache size
calculations have been redone to simplify them (fewer defines, better
comments, less chance of running out of KVA).
The geteblk() fix solves a performance problem that DG was able reproduce.
This patch does not completely fix the KVA fragmentation problems, but
it goes a long way
Mostly Reviewed by: bde and others
Approved by: jkh
set properly in the struct buf with vinum:
Fix locations where B_READ was cleared in the old code but
b.b_iocmd wasn't set to BIO_WRITE
Fix propogation of b_iocmd
Correct comments to reflect reality
Don't compare b_flags with BIO_READ, it's in b_iocmd.
Submitted by: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>
not introduce (hopefully) any functional changes but gets rid of
the #ifdef spaghetti pcvt suffered from more and more over the
years.
Several no more used parts of the source were removed, others
which are used by default are now non-optional components:
PCVT_NETBSD removed completety
PCVT_FREEBSD removed option, code is now standard
PCVT_KBD_FIFO removed option, code is now standard
PCVT_EMU_MOUSE removed completety
PCVT_SW0CNOUTP removed completety
PCVT_PORTIO_DELAY obsolete, removed
PCVT_KEYBDID removed option, code is now standard
PCVT_SIGWINCH removed option, code is now standard
PCVT_PALFLICKER removed completety
PCVT_WAITRETRACE removed completety
PCVT_NOFASTSCROLL removed option, code is now standard
PCVT_USL_VT_COMPAT removed the "old" non-vt Xserver code completely,
depending on XSERVER, this code is now standard.
Pcvt userland cleanup will follow as well as newbusifying the
kernel part.
Remove RF_PCCARD_ATTR in anticipation of removing it from sys/rman.h
Add interface for setting "attributes" of pccard/cardbus devices.
Minor formatting nits.
cardbus bridge init routine for all cardbuses. This routine attempts
to compensate for BIOSes that do not setup the cardbus bridge into
legacy mode. Since this is becoming more common, and cardbus pci
cards have appeared on the market, this makes sense.
Do some TI113x specific initialization. This came in as part of the
patch. Report TI1[1234]XX specific config registers protected by
bootverbose.
Minor code cleanup while I'm here. I've also removed the unused code
present in the original patches, and cleaned it up slightly in places
as well.
The original patches supported more than one card, but these patches
support just one. We should likely revisit this in the future.
This makes the Compaq card that Walnut Creek CD purchased for me work
in my bouncer box.
This is a MFC candidate. However, I'd like to get some airtime on
these patches on as many laptops as possible before doing the MFC. It
does change things somewhat. In theory, apart from the minor TI
tweaks, this shouldn't change anything if the bridge is in legacy mode
already.
Submitted by: sanpei@sanpei.org (MIHIRA Yoshiro)
o added gif, faith, wx, ida, amr, mlw, INET6
o many comment nits
o Comment out all the compat shim devices, mostly so that I know what
they are:
amd, dpt, ncr, adv, tx, vx, fe, cs, lnc,
o Leave the following commented out:
ie, le
NEWCARD now compiles again. Back to testing...
for generating /boot/kernel.conf. Since this structure is shared, move
its definition out to a header file, just as struct isa_device was defined
in a header file. This fixes the sysinstall breakage in -current.
improperly doing the equivalent of (m = (function() == NULL)) instead
of ((m = function()) == NULL).
This fixes a NULL pointer dereference panic with runt arp packets.
