- genfs_putpages: wait for i/o completion of PG_RELEASED/PG_PAGEOUT pages by
setting "wasclean" false when encountering them.
suggested by Stephan Uphoff in PR/24596 (1).
- genfs_putpages: write protect pages when cleaning out, if
we're going to take the vnode off the syncer's queue.
uvm_fault: don't write-map pages unless its vnode is already on
the syncer's queue.
fix PR/24596 (3) but in the different way from the suggested fix.
(to keep our current behaviour, ie. not to require explicit msync.
discussed on tech-kern@.)
- genfs_putpages: don't mistakenly take a vnode off the queue
by introducing a generation number in genfs_node.
genfs_getpages: increment the generation number.
suggested by Stephan Uphoff in PR/24596 (2).
- add some assertions.
to prevent unnecessary block allocations in the case that
page size > block size.
- ufs_balloc_range: use VM_PROT_WRITE+PGO_NOBLOCKALLOC rather than
VM_PROT_READ.
disks to other domains) from Jed Davis, <jld@panix.com>:
* Issue multiple requests when necessary rather than
assuming that arbitrary requests can be mapped into single
contiguous virtual address ranges.
* Don't assume that all data for a request is consecutive
in memory. With some client OSes, it's not.
The above two changes fix data corruption issues with Linux
clients with certain filesystem block sizes.
* Gracefully handle memory or pool allocation failures after
beginning to handle a request from the ring.
* Merge contiguous requests to avoid the "64K turns into 44K + 20K
and doubles the transactions per second at the disk" problem
caused by the 11-page limit caused by the structure of Xen
ring entries. This causes a very slight performance decrease
for sequential 64K I/O if the disk is not already saturated with
requests (about 1%) but halves the transactions per second we
hit the disk with -- or better. It even compensates for bizarre
Linux behaviour like breaking long requests up into 5.5K pieces.
* Probably some stuff I forgot to mention.
Disk throughput (though not latency) is now much, much closer to the
"raw hardware" case than it was before.
rpaulo