We can iterate over consecutive resident pages in the top-level object
using the object's page list rather than by performing lookups in the
object radix tree. This extends one of the optimizations in r312208 to the
case where a shadow chain is present.
Suggested by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, kib (previous version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9282
HWPMC_HOOKS is enabled in GENERIC and triggers some work avoidable in the
common (module not loaded) case.
In particular this avoids permission checks + lock downgrade
singlethreaded and in cases were an executable mapping is found the pmc
sx lock is no longer bounced.
Note this is a band aid.
MFC after: 1 week
vm_object_madvise() is frequently used to apply advice to a contiguous
set of pages in an object with no backing object. Optimize this case by
skipping non-resident subranges in constant time, and by iterating over
resident pages using the object memq, thus avoiding radix tree lookups on
each page index in the specified range.
While here, move MADV_WILLNEED handling to vm_page_advise(), and rename the
"advise" parameter to vm_object_madvise() to "advice."
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9098
Upon each execve, we allocate a KVA range for use in copying data to the
new image. Pages must be faulted into the range, and when the range is
freed, the backing pages are freed and their mappings are destroyed. This
is a lot of needless overhead, and the exec_map management becomes a
bottleneck when many CPUs are executing execve concurrently. Moreover, the
number of available ranges is fixed at 16, which is insufficient on large
systems and potentially excessive on 32-bit systems.
The new allocator reduces overhead by making exec_map allocations
persistent. When a range is freed, pages backing the range are marked clean
and made easy to reclaim. With this change, the exec_map is sized based on
the number of CPUs.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8921
On systems without a configured swap device, an attempt to launder pages
from a swap object will always fail and result in the page being
reactivated. This means that the page daemon will continuously scan pages
that can never be evicted. With this change, anonymous pages are instead
moved to PQ_UNSWAPPABLE after a failed laundering attempt when no swap
devices are configured. PQ_UNSWAPPABLE is not scanned unless a swap device
is configured, so unreferenced unswappable pages are excluded from the page
daemon's workload.
Reviewed by: alc
If pager' populate method succeeded, but other thread raced with us
and modified vm_map, we must unbusy all pages busied by the pager,
before we retry the whole fault handling. If pager instantiated more
pages than fit into the current map entry, we must unbusy the pages
which are clipped.
Also do some refactoring, clarify comments and use more clear local
variable names.
Reported and tested by: kargl, subbsd@gmail.com (previous version)
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
add support for object types that were previously prohibited because they
could contain PG_CACHED pages.
Roughly halve the number of radix trie operations performed by
vm_page_alloc_contig() using the same approach that is employed by
vm_page_alloc(). Also, eliminate the radix trie lookup performed with the
free page queues lock held.
Tidy up the handling of radix trie insert failures in vm_page_alloc() and
vm_page_alloc_contig().
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8878
There are two instances of inlined unlocks + continue in vmtotal()
switch statements, which are ordinary expressed with break from the
switch case and code after the switch. Also, the combination of
continue and break statement is redundand.
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
The count argument natural type if vm_pindex_t, but due to the loop
organization, it has to be signed type to detect the termination
condition. Replace this logic by using distinguished counter for the
processed pages, and terminate loop when the counter exceeds the
argument.
Completely process one swblock for all relevant indexes instead of
doing relookup in hash when incrementing page index on the loop step.
Do not drop hash mutex around iterations.
Noted and reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
As noted in the removed comment, it is possible and not prohibitively
costly to look up the swap blocks for the given page index. Implement
a swap_pager_find_least() function to do that, and use it to iterate
simultaneously over both backing object page queue and swap
allocations when looking for shadowed pages.
Testing shows that number of new succesful scans, enabled by this
addition, is small but non-zero. When worked out, the change both
further reduces the depth of the shadow object chain, and frees unused
but allocated swap and memory.
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
The object is not yet fully constructed and must not be available to
other threads. This makes default_pager_alloc() almost identical to
swap_pager_alloc_init().
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
in this file actually described the operation of the swap pager, not the
default pager. Given that this is the wrong place to discuss the
implementation of the swap pager, it shouldn't come as a surprise that as
the swap pager evolved these comments became increasingly stale. In
addition, apply some style fixes, like modernizing a few remaining old-
style function definitions.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8781
independent layer of the virtual memory system. Update some of the nearby
comments to eliminate redundancy and improve clarity.
In vm/vm_reserv.c, do not use hyphens after adverbs ending in -ly per
The Chicago Manual of Style.
Update the comment in vm/vm_page.h defining the four types of page queues to
reflect the elimination of PG_CACHED pages and the introduction of the
laundry queue.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8752
It allows to provide configurable agressive prefaulting and useful
hints to page daemon about memory allocations, on faults for pages
managed by phys pager. In fact, this implementation is superior to
the MAP_SHARED_PHYS hack from my Postgresql paper, while giving
similar benefits of reducing the page faults numbers on SysV shared
memory mappings.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
with cdev_pg_populate() to provide device drivers access to it. It
gives drivers fine control of the pages ownership and allows drivers
to implement arbitrary prefault policies.
The populate method is called on a page fault and is supposed to
populate the vm object with the page at the fault location and some
amount of pages around it, at pager's discretion. VM provides the
pager with the hints about current range of the object mapping, to
avoid instantiation of immediately unused pages, if pager decides so.
Also, VM passes the fault type and map entry protection to the pager,
allowing it to force the optimal required ownership of the mapped
pages.
Installed pages must contiguously fill the returned region, be fully
valid and exclusively busied. Of course, the pages must be compatible
with the object' type.
After populate() successfully returned, VM fault handler installs as
many instantiated pages into the process page tables as it sees
reasonable, while still obeying the correct semantic for COW and vm
map locking.
The method is opt-in, pager sets OBJ_POPULATE flag to indicate that
the method can be called. If pager' vm objects can be shadowed, pager
must implement the traditional getpages() method in addition to the
populate(). Populate() might fall back to the getpages() on per-call
basis as well, by returning VM_PAGER_BAD error code.
For now for device pagers, the populate() method is only allowed to be
used by the managed device pagers, but the limitation is only made
because there is no unmanaged fault handlers which could use it right
now.
KPI designed together with, and reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
contain a vm_page_t at the specified index. However, with this
change, vm_radix_remove() no longer panics. Instead, it returns NULL
if there is no vm_page_t at the specified index. Otherwise, it
returns the vm_page_t. The motivation for this change is that it
simplifies the use of radix tries in the amd64, arm64, and i386 pmap
implementations. Instead of performing a lookup before every remove,
the pmap can simply perform the remove.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8708
Some utilities (notably top(1)) exit if any of their input sysctls don't
exist, and the removal of the above-mentioned PG_CACHE-related sysctls
makes it difficult to run such utilities on different versions of the
kernel without recompiling.
Requested by: bde
called to allocate a new page of radix trie nodes, there could be a call to
vm_radix_remove() on the same trie (of PG_CACHED pages) as the in-progress
vm_radix_insert(). With the removal of PG_CACHED pages, we can simplify
vm_radix_insert() and vm_radix_remove() by removing the flags on the root of
the trie that were used to detect this case and the code for restarting
vm_radix_insert() when it happened.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8664
a new page of radix trie nodes to complete a vm_radix_insert() operation
that was requested by vm_page_cache(). Specifically, vm_page_cache()
already held the free page queue lock when UMA tried to acquire it through
a call to vm_page_alloc(). This code path no longer exists, so there is no
longer any reason to allow recursion on the free page queue mutex.
Improve nearby comments.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8628
The swap pager enqueues laundered pages near the head of the inactive queue
to avoid another trip through LRU before reclamation. This change adds
support for this behaviour to the vnode pager and makes use of it in UFS and
ext2fs. Some ioflag handling is consolidated into a common subroutine so
that this support can be easily extended to other filesystems which make use
of the buffer cache. No changes are needed for ZFS since its putpages
routine always undirties the pages before returning, and the laundry
thread requeues the pages appropriately in this case.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8589
longer used. More precisely, they are always zero because the code that
decremented and incremented them no longer exists.
Bump __FreeBSD_version to mark this change.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8583
doesn't fit into a buf, then trim readbehind and readahead evenly. If
rbehind was limited by the previous BMAP, then roundup its trim to
block size.
- Add KASSERT to check that b_blkno has proper offset from original
blkno returned by BMAP. [1]
- Add KASSERT to check that pages in buf are consecutive.
Reviewed by: kib
Submitted by: kib [1]
not remove user-space visible fields from vm_cnt or all of the references to
cached pages from comments. Those changes will come later.)
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8497
pages, specificially, dirty pages that have passed once through the inactive
queue. A new, dedicated thread is responsible for both deciding when to
launder pages and actually laundering them. The new policy uses the
relative sizes of the inactive and laundry queues to determine whether to
launder pages at a given point in time. In general, this leads to more
intelligent swapping behavior, since the laundry thread will avoid pageouts
when the marginal benefit of doing so is low. Previously, without a
dedicated queue for dirty pages, the page daemon didn't have the information
to determine whether pageout provides any benefit to the system. Thus, the
previous policy often resulted in small but steadily increasing amounts of
swap usage when the system is under memory pressure, even when the inactive
queue consisted mostly of clean pages. This change addresses that issue,
and also paves the way for some future virtual memory system improvements by
removing the last source of object-cached clean pages, i.e., PG_CACHE pages.
The new laundry thread sleeps while waiting for a request from the page
daemon thread(s). A request is raised by setting the variable
vm_laundry_request and waking the laundry thread. We request launderings
for two reasons: to try and balance the inactive and laundry queue sizes
("background laundering"), and to quickly make up for a shortage of free
pages and clean inactive pages ("shortfall laundering"). When background
laundering is requested, the laundry thread computes the number of page
daemon wakeups that have taken place since the last laundering. If this
number is large enough relative to the ratio of the laundry and (global)
inactive queue sizes, we will launder vm_background_launder_target pages at
vm_background_launder_rate KB/s. Otherwise, the laundry thread goes back
to sleep without doing any work. When scanning the laundry queue during
background laundering, reactivated pages are counted towards the laundry
thread's target.
In contrast, shortfall laundering is requested when an inactive queue scan
fails to meet its target. In this case, the laundry thread attempts to
launder enough pages to meet v_free_target within 0.5s, which is the
inactive queue scan period.
A laundry request can be latched while another is currently being
serviced. In particular, a shortfall request will immediately preempt a
background laundering.
This change also redefines the meaning of vm_cnt.v_reactivated and removes
the functions vm_page_cache() and vm_page_try_to_cache(). The new meaning
of vm_cnt.v_reactivated now better reflects its name. It represents the
number of inactive or laundry pages that are returned to the active queue
on account of a reference.
In collaboration with: markj
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8302
Requests which cannot be satisfied by allocators at boot time often
have unrealizable parameters. Waiting for the pagedaemon' start would
hang the boot if done in the thread0 context and just never succeed if
executed from another thread. In fact, for very early stages, sleep
attempt panics with obscure diagnostic about the scheduler state, and
explicit panic in vm_wait() makes the investigation much shorter by
cut off the examination of the thread and scheduler.
Theoretically, some subsystem might grab a resource to exhaustion, and
free it later in the boot process. If this unlikely scenario does
appear for real, the way to diagnose the trouble can be revisited.
Reported by: emaste
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8421
in-progress count and the vnode. Prior to r188331, we always acquired
the vnode lock before incrementing the object's paging-in-progress count.
Now, we increment it before attempting to acquire the vnode lock with
LK_NOWAIT, but we never sleep acquiring the vnode lock while we have the
count incremented.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 3 days
