would result in a vop_inactive call for the vnode each time, resulting
in vinvalbuf->fsync. The original softdep code avoided the fsync
in vinvalbuf by not calling it if there were no dirty blocks. This
was changed in NetBSD. Also, flush_inodedeps was changed to mark
the inode as modified so that it would do an inode update and flush the
last one. This combination basically caused a sync write for each removed
file in an rm -rf (showing up delayed from the syncer a lot of the time).
If called from vinvalbuf (FSYNC_RECLAIM), and there were no dirty blocks
or pages to begin with, still do everything as normal, so that possible dirty
blocks in transit to disk are properly waited for, etc, but don't pass
UPDATE_WAIT to VOP_UPDATE, since there is no need for it in that case.
spotted by Nathan Williams.
while I'm here, move an splbio() so that we don't return without
splx()ing it if there's an error, and don't bother calling the
pager put if the vnode has no pages.
- remove special treatment of pager_map mappings in pmaps. this is
required now, since I've removed the globals that expose the address range.
pager_map now uses pmap_kenter_pa() instead of pmap_enter(), so there's
no longer any need to special-case it.
- eliminate struct uvm_vnode by moving its fields into struct vnode.
- rewrite the pageout path. the pager is now responsible for handling the
high-level requests instead of only getting control after a bunch of work
has already been done on its behalf. this will allow us to UBCify LFS,
which needs tighter control over its pages than other filesystems do.
writing a page to disk no longer requires making it read-only, which
allows us to write wired pages without causing all kinds of havoc.
- use a new PG_PAGEOUT flag to indicate that a page should be freed
on behalf of the pagedaemon when it's unlocked. this flag is very similar
to PG_RELEASED, but unlike PG_RELEASED, PG_PAGEOUT can be cleared if the
pageout fails due to eg. an indirect-block buffer being locked.
this allows us to remove the "version" field from struct vm_page,
and together with shrinking "loan_count" from 32 bits to 16,
struct vm_page is now 4 bytes smaller.
- no longer use PG_RELEASED for swap-backed pages. if the page is busy
because it's being paged out, we can't release the swap slot to be
reallocated until that write is complete, but unlike with vnodes we
don't keep a count of in-progress writes so there's no good way to
know when the write is done. instead, when we need to free a busy
swap-backed page, just sleep until we can get it busy ourselves.
- implement a fast-path for extending writes which allows us to avoid
zeroing new pages. this substantially reduces cpu usage.
- encapsulate the data used by the genfs code in a struct genfs_node,
which must be the first element of the filesystem-specific vnode data
for filesystems which use genfs_{get,put}pages().
- eliminate many of the UVM pagerops, since they aren't needed anymore
now that the pager "put" operation is a higher-level operation.
- enhance the genfs code to allow NFS to use the genfs_{get,put}pages
instead of a modified copy.
- clean up struct vnode by removing all the fields that used to be used by
the vfs_cluster.c code (which we don't use anymore with UBC).
- remove kmem_object and mb_object since they were useless.
instead of allocating pages to these objects, we now just allocate
pages with no object. such pages are mapped in the kernel until they
are freed, so we can use the mapping to find the page to free it.
this allows us to remove splvm() protection in several places.
The sum of all these changes improves write throughput on my
decstation 5000/200 to within 1% of the rate of NetBSD 1.5
and reduces the elapsed time for "make release" of a NetBSD 1.5
source tree on my 128MB pc to 10% less than a 1.5 kernel took.
blocks are detached from the vnode at this point. When the dependencies are
broken to enable writing the blocks, the vnode will be regenerated. (The only
reason we sync buffers in this case is that they have to be detached from the
vnode.)
a set of flags ("flags"). Two flags are defined, UPDATE_WAIT and
UPDATE_DIROP.
Under the old semantics, VOP_UPDATE would block if waitfor were set,
under the assumption that directory operations should be done
synchronously. At least LFS and FFS+softdep do not make this
assumption; FFS+softdep got around the problem by enclosing all relevant
calls to VOP_UPDATE in a "if(!DOINGSOFTDEP(vp))", while LFS simply
ignored waitfor, one of the reasons why NFS-serving an LFS filesystem
did not work properly.
Under the new semantics, the UPDATE_DIROP flag is a hint to the
fs-specific update routine that the call comes from a dirop routine, and
should be wait for, or not, accordingly.
Closes PR#8996.
mode and ownership bits are flushed to disk before the vnode is
reclaimed.
The check, introduced in the softdep merge, assumes that if no blocks
are dirty, no file data *or metadata* needs to be flushed to disk. This
is true of ffs, but is not true of lfs, and may not be true of other
filesystems.
Tested by myself and Bill Squier <groo@cs.stevens-tech.edu>.
default, as the copyright on the main file (ffs_softdep.c) is such
that is has been put into gnusrc. options SOFTDEP will pull this
in. This code also contains the trickle syncer.
Bump version number to 1.4O
call with F_FSCTL set and F_SETFL calls generate calls to a new
fileop fo_fcntl. Add genfs_fcntl() and soo_fcntl() which return 0
for F_SETFL and EOPNOTSUPP otherwise. Have all leaf filesystems
use genfs_fcntl().
Reviewed by: thorpej
Tested by: wrstuden
UVM was written by chuck cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>, with some
minor portions derived from the old Mach code. i provided some help
getting swap and paging working, and other bug fixes/ideas. chuck
silvers <chuq@chuq.com> also provided some other fixes.
this is the rest of the MI portion changes.
this will be KNF'd shortly. :-)
* Make 2nd and 3rd args timespecs, not timevals.
* Consistently pass a Boolean as the 4th arg (except in LFS).
Also, fix ffs_update() and lfs_update() to actually change the nsec fields.
fvdl