sector information in the kernel. Doing this uncovered some shortcomings
that should have been pretty obvious with the code committed prior, addressing
the major kludge with a new struct - disk_bacsecinfo to be passed into
DIOCBSLIST.
prempt read operations on matching regions with a failure rather than waiting
for the device to return a failure. The I/O operation must have already failed
MAXRETRIES times before being added to the list - this can generally take up
to 12 seconds.
List is made accessible to userspace via DIOCBSLIST and DIOCBSFLUSH.
Such RAID controllers are actually just IDE controllers with a BIOS that
can create RAID volumes and write the configuration info to config blocks
on the disks. The BIOS can do I/O to these volumes, and the OS must
understand the config blocks and implement RAID in software in order to be
able to use these volumes.
Only SPAN (simple concatenation) and RAID0 are supported at this time,
and writing back config blocks is also not supported at this time. Currently,
only the Promise configuration scheme is supported, although supporting
the Highpoint scheme should not be too difficult.
In any case, this is sufficient to use the Promise RAID0 volume (thus
preserving the win2k AS installation) on this new Intel server I have.
Thanks to Soren Schmidt for doing the work in FreeBSD; it made this
task much easier. The config block parsing code is adapted from his
work.
- disk_unbusy() gets a new parameter to tell the IO direction.
- struct disk_sysctl gets 4 new members for read/write bytes/transfers.
when processing hw.diskstats, add the read&write bytes/transfers for
the old combined stats to attempt to keep backwards compatibility.
unfortunately, due to multiple bugs, this will cause new kernels and old
vmstat/iostat/systat programs to fail. however, the next time this is
change it will not fail again.
this is just the kernel portion.
kqueue provides a stateful and efficient event notification framework
currently supported events include socket, file, directory, fifo,
pipe, tty and device changes, and monitoring of processes and signals
kqueue is supported by all writable filesystems in NetBSD tree
(with exception of Coda) and all device drivers supporting poll(2)
based on work done by Jonathan Lemon for FreeBSD
initial NetBSD port done by Luke Mewburn and Jason Thorpe
This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).
- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.
- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.
device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]
- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
by using this grammer.
- Added the new naming convention.
The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
of device switch tables.
- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.
- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.
- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
One basic struct, a function to setup a queue with a specific strategy and
three macros to put buf's into the queue, get and remove the next buf or
get the next buf without removal.
The BUFQ_XXX interface will be removed in the future.
The B_ORDERED flag is not longer supported.
Approved by: Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
- move some functions from ata.c to ata_wdc.c or wdc.c.
- add callbacks to struct ata_bustype so that wd.c doesn't call directly
functions from the lower level driver.
kill ata_atapi_attach. Change atapibus to use a struct scsipi_channel instead
of ata_atapi_attach as attach arch. Create a ata_device, compatible with
scsipi_channel, to attach wd.
the number of partitions is > OLDMAXPARTITIONS. This is better
than silently truncating the label (don't want to silently throw
away partitions when using an old disklabel binary on a label with
> 8 partitions). From Enami Tsugutomo.
timeout()/untimeout() API:
- Clients supply callout handle storage, thus eliminating problems of
resource allocation.
- Insertion and removal of callouts is constant time, important as
this facility is used quite a lot in the kernel.
The old timeout()/untimeout() API has been removed from the kernel.
