Commit Graph

95 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
John Baldwin
ce70e0a964 Assert Giant is held by the caller rather than getting it and releasing
it in getpages/putpages.
2001-05-23 22:26:05 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
2395531439 Introduce a global lock for the vm subsystem (vm_mtx).
vm_mtx does not recurse and is required for most low level
vm operations.

faults can not be taken without holding Giant.

Memory subsystems can now call the base page allocators safely.

Almost all atomic ops were removed as they are covered under the
vm mutex.

Alpha and ia64 now need to catch up to i386's trap handlers.

FFS and NFS have been tested, other filesystems will need minor
changes (grabbing the vm lock when twiddling page properties).

Reviewed (partially) by: jake, jhb
2001-05-19 01:28:09 +00:00
Greg Lehey
60fb0ce365 Revert consequences of changes to mount.h, part 2.
Requested by:	bde
2001-04-29 02:45:39 +00:00
Greg Lehey
d98dc34f52 Correct #includes to work with fixed sys/mount.h. 2001-04-23 09:05:15 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
d8d5fa8805 vnode_pager_freepage() is really vm_page_free() in disguise,
nuke vnode_pager_freepage() and replace all calls to it with vm_page_free()
2001-04-19 06:18:23 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
f84e29a06c This patch removes the VOP_BWRITE() vector.
VOP_BWRITE() was a hack which made it possible for NFS client
side to use struct buf with non-bio backing.

This patch takes a more general approach and adds a bp->b_op
vector where more methods can be added.

The success of this patch depends on bp->b_op being initialized
all relevant places for some value of "relevant" which is not
easy to determine.  For now the buffers have grown a b_magic
element which will make such issues a tiny bit easier to debug.
2001-04-17 08:56:39 +00:00
John Baldwin
19eb87d22a Grab the process lock while calling psignal and before calling psignal. 2001-03-07 03:37:06 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
9626b608de Separate the struct bio related stuff out of <sys/buf.h> into
<sys/bio.h>.

<sys/bio.h> is now a prerequisite for <sys/buf.h> but it shall
not be made a nested include according to bdes teachings on the
subject of nested includes.

Diskdrivers and similar stuff below specfs::strategy() should no
longer need to include <sys/buf.> unless they need caching of data.

Still a few bogus uses of struct buf to track down.

Repocopy by:    peter
2000-05-05 09:59:14 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
8177437d85 Complete the bio/buf divorce for all code below devfs::strategy
Exceptions:
        Vinum untouched.  This means that it cannot be compiled.
        Greg Lehey is on the case.

        CCD not converted yet, casts to struct buf (still safe)

        atapi-cd casts to struct buf to examine B_PHYS
2000-04-15 05:54:02 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
c244d2de43 Move B_ERROR flag to b_ioflags and call it BIO_ERROR.
(Much of this done by script)

Move B_ORDERED flag to b_ioflags and call it BIO_ORDERED.

Move b_pblkno and b_iodone_chain to struct bio while we transition, they
will be obsoleted once bio structs chain/stack.

Add bio_queue field for struct bio aware disksort.

Address a lot of stylistic issues brought up by bde.
2000-04-02 15:24:56 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b99c307a21 Rename the existing BUF_STRATEGY() to DEV_STRATEGY()
substitute BUF_WRITE(foo) for VOP_BWRITE(foo->b_vp, foo)

substitute BUF_STRATEGY(foo) for VOP_STRATEGY(foo->b_vp, foo)

This patch is machine generated except for the ccd.c and buf.h parts.
2000-03-20 11:29:10 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
21144e3bf1 Remove B_READ, B_WRITE and B_FREEBUF and replace them with a new
field in struct buf: b_iocmd.  The b_iocmd is enforced to have
exactly one bit set.

B_WRITE was bogusly defined as zero giving rise to obvious coding
mistakes.

Also eliminate the redundant struct buf flag B_CALL, it can just
as efficiently be done by comparing b_iodone to NULL.

Should you get a panic or drop into the debugger, complaining about
"b_iocmd", don't continue.  It is likely to write on your disk
where it should have been reading.

This change is a step in the direction towards a stackable BIO capability.

A lot of this patch were machine generated (Thanks to style(9) compliance!)

Vinum users:  Greg has not had time to test this yet, be careful.
2000-03-20 10:44:49 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
c37c9620cd Enhance reassignbuf(). When a buffer cannot be time-optimally inserted
into vnode dirtyblkhd we append it to the list instead of prepend it to
    the list in order to maintain a 'forward' locality of reference, which
    is arguably better then 'reverse'.  The original algorithm did things this
    way to but at a huge time cost.

    Enhance the append interlock for NFS writes to handle intr/soft mounts
    better.

    Fix the hysteresis for NFS async daemon I/O requests to reduce the
    number of unnecessary context switches.

    Modify handling of NFS mount options.  Any given user option that is
    too high now defaults to the kernel maximum for that option rather then
    the kernel default for that option.

Reviewed by:	 Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
2000-01-05 05:11:37 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
b7303db36e Fix two problems: First, fix the append seek position race that can
occur due to np->n_size potentially changing if nfs_getcacheblk()
    blocks in nfs_write().

    Second, under -current we must supply the proper bufsize when obtaining
    buffers that straddle the EOF, but due to the fact that np->n_size can
    change out from under us it is possible that we may specify the wrong
    buffer size and wind up truncating dirty data written by another
    process.

    Both problems are solved by implementing nfs_rslock(), which allows us
    to lock around sensitive buffer cache operations such as those that
    occur when appending to a file.

    It is believed that this race is responsible for causing dirtyoff/dirtyend
    and (in stable) validoff/validend to exceed the buffer size.  Therefore
    we have now added a warning printf for the dirtyoff/end case in current.

    However, we have introduced a new problem which we need to fix at some
    point, and that is that soft or intr NFS mounts may become
    uninterruptable from the point of view of process A which is stuck waiting
    on rslock while process B is stuck doing the rpc.  To unstick process A,
    process B would have to be interrupted first.

Reviewed by:	Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
1999-12-14 19:07:54 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
ea94c7b968 Synopsis of problem being fixed: Dan Nelson originally reported that
blocks of zeros could wind up in a file written to over NFS by a client.
    The problem only occurs a few times per several gigabytes of data.   This
    problem turned out to be bug #3 below.

    bug #1:

        B_CLUSTEROK must be cleared when an NFS buffer is reverted from
        stage 2 (ready for commit rpc) to stage 1 (ready for write).
        Reversions can occur when a dirty NFS buffer is redirtied with new
        data.

        Otherwise the VFS/BIO system may end up thinking that a stage 1
        NFS buffer is clusterable.  Stage 1 NFS buffers are not clusterable.

    bug #2:

        B_CLUSTEROK was inappropriately set for a 'short' NFS buffer (short
        buffers only occur near the EOF of the file).  Change to only set
        when the buffer is a full biosize (usually 8K).  This bug has no
        effect but should be fixed in -current anyway.  It need not be
        backported.

    bug #3:

        B_NEEDCOMMIT was inappropriately set in nfs_flush() (which is
	typically only called by the update daemon).  nfs_flush()
        does a multi-pass loop but due to the lack of vnode locking it
        is possible for new buffers to be added to the dirtyblkhd list
        while a flush operation is going on.  This may result in nfs_flush()
        setting B_NEEDCOMMIT on a buffer which has *NOT* yet gone through its
        stage 1 write, causing only the commit rpc to be made and thus
        causing the contents of the buffer to be thrown away (never sent to
        the server).

    The patch also contains some cleanup, which only applies to the commit
    into -current.

Reviewed by:	dg, julian
Originally Reported by: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
1999-12-12 06:09:57 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
923502ff91 useracc() the prequel:
Merge the contents (less some trivial bordering the silly comments)
of <vm/vm_prot.h> and <vm/vm_inherit.h> into <vm/vm.h>.  This puts
the #defines for the vm_inherit_t and vm_prot_t types next to their
typedefs.

This paves the road for the commit to follow shortly: change
useracc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE} rather than B_{READ|WRITE}
as argument.
1999-10-29 18:09:36 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
8fdd2461b3 Add comment to clarify a commit rpc optimization already being performed. 1999-09-20 19:10:28 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
b5acbc8b9c Asynchronized client-side nfs_commit. NFS commit operations were
previously issued synchronously even if async daemons (nfsiod's) were
    available.  The commit has been moved from the strategy code to the doio
    code in order to asynchronize it.

    Removed use of lastr in preparation for removal of vnode->v_lastr.  It
    has been replaced with seqcount, which is already supported by the system
    and, in fact, gives us a better heuristic for sequential detection then
    lastr ever did.

    Made major performance improvements to the server side commit.  The
    server previously fsync'd the entire file for each commit rpc.  The
    server now bawrite()s only those buffers related to the offset/size
    specified in the commit rpc.

    Note that we do not commit the meta-data yet.  This works still needs
    to be done.

    Note that a further optimization can be done (and has not yet been done)
    on the client: we can merge multiple potential commit rpc's into a
    single rpc with a greater file offset/size range and greatly reduce
    rpc traffic.

Reviewed by:	Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>
1999-09-17 05:57:57 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Alan Cox
2c28a10540 Add the (inline) function vm_page_undirty for clearing the dirty bitmask
of a vm_page.

Use it.

Submitted by:	dillon
1999-08-17 04:02:34 +00:00
Dmitrij Tejblum
e868365294 nfs_getcacheblk() can return 0 if the mount is interruptible. It need to be
checked by the caller.

Broken in: rev. 1.70 (1999/05/02)
1999-08-12 18:04:39 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
67812eacd7 Convert buffer locking from using the B_BUSY and B_WANTED flags to using
lockmgr locks. This commit should be functionally equivalent to the old
semantics. That is, all buffer locking is done with LK_EXCLUSIVE
requests. Changes to take advantage of LK_SHARED and LK_RECURSIVE will
be done in future commits.
1999-06-26 02:47:16 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
f9c8cab591 Add a vnode argument to VOP_BWRITE to get rid of the last vnode
operator special case. Delete special case code from vnode_if.sh,
vnode_if.src, umap_vnops.c, and null_vnops.c.
1999-06-16 23:27:55 +00:00
Peter Wemm
adbde675ee Don't mistake a non-async block that needs to be committed for an
interrupted write.

Obtained from: fvdl@NetBSD.org via OpenBSD.
1999-06-05 05:25:37 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b0eeea2042 remove b_proc from struct buf, it's (now) unused.
Reviewed by:	dillon, bde
1999-05-06 20:00:34 +00:00
Alan Cox
4221e284a3 The VFS/BIO subsystem contained a number of hacks in order to optimize
piecemeal, middle-of-file writes for NFS.  These hacks have caused no
end of trouble, especially when combined with mmap().  I've removed
them.  Instead, NFS will issue a read-before-write to fully
instantiate the struct buf containing the write.  NFS does, however,
optimize piecemeal appends to files.  For most common file operations,
you will not notice the difference.  The sole remaining fragment in
the VFS/BIO system is b_dirtyoff/end, which NFS uses to avoid cache
coherency issues with read-merge-write style operations.  NFS also
optimizes the write-covers-entire-buffer case by avoiding the
read-before-write.  There is quite a bit of room for further
optimization in these areas.

The VM system marks pages fully-valid (AKA vm_page_t->valid =
VM_PAGE_BITS_ALL) in several places, most noteably in vm_fault.  This
is not correct operation.  The vm_pager_get_pages() code is now
responsible for marking VM pages all-valid.  A number of VM helper
routines have been added to aid in zeroing-out the invalid portions of
a VM page prior to the page being marked all-valid.  This operation is
necessary to properly support mmap().  The zeroing occurs most often
when dealing with file-EOF situations.  Several bugs have been fixed
in the NFS subsystem, including bits handling file and directory EOF
situations and buf->b_flags consistancy issues relating to clearing
B_ERROR & B_INVAL, and handling B_DONE.

getblk() and allocbuf() have been rewritten.  B_CACHE operation is now
formally defined in comments and more straightforward in
implementation.  B_CACHE for VMIO buffers is based on the validity of
the backing store.  B_CACHE for non-VMIO buffers is based simply on
whether the buffer is B_INVAL or not (B_CACHE set if B_INVAL clear,
and vise-versa).  biodone() is now responsible for setting B_CACHE
when a successful read completes.  B_CACHE is also set when a bdwrite()
is initiated and when a bwrite() is initiated.  VFS VOP_BWRITE
routines (there are only two - nfs_bwrite() and bwrite()) are now
expected to set B_CACHE.  This means that bowrite() and bawrite() also
set B_CACHE indirectly.

There are a number of places in the code which were previously using
buf->b_bufsize (which is DEV_BSIZE aligned) when they should have
been using buf->b_bcount.  These have been fixed.  getblk() now clears
B_DONE on return because the rest of the system is so bad about
dealing with B_DONE.

Major fixes to NFS/TCP have been made.  A server-side bug could cause
requests to be lost by the server due to nfs_realign() overwriting
other rpc's in the same TCP mbuf chain.  The server's kernel must be
recompiled to get the benefit of the fixes.

Submitted by:	Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
1999-05-02 23:57:16 +00:00
Peter Wemm
8a0d8193f2 Hold nfsd's upages in-core with PHOLD rather than P_NOSWAP. 1999-04-06 03:07:54 +00:00
Julian Elischer
8d17e69460 Catch a case spotted by Tor where files mmapped could leave garbage in the
unallocated parts of the last page when the file ended on a frag
but not a page boundary.
Delimitted by tags PRE_MATT_MMAP_EOF and POST_MATT_MMAP_EOF,
in files alpha/alpha/pmap.c i386/i386/pmap.c nfs/nfs_bio.c vm/pmap.h
    vm/vm_page.c vm/vm_page.h vm/vnode_pager.c miscfs/specfs/spec_vnops.c
    ufs/ufs/ufs_readwrite.c kern/vfs_bio.c

Submitted by: Matt Dillon <dillon@freebsd.org>
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@freebsd.org>
1999-04-05 19:38:30 +00:00
Julian Elischer
4ef2094e45 Reviewed by: Many at differnt times in differnt parts,
including alan, john, me, luoqi, and kirk
Submitted by:	Matt Dillon <dillon@frebsd.org>

This change implements a relatively sophisticated fix to getnewbuf().
There were two problems with getnewbuf(). First, the writerecursion
can lead to a system stack overflow when you have NFS and/or VN
devices in the system. Second, the free/dirty buffer accounting was
completely broken. Not only did the nfs routines blow it trying to
manually account for the buffer state, but the accounting that was
done did not work well with the purpose of their existance: figuring
out when getnewbuf() needs to sleep.

The meat of the change is to kern/vfs_bio.c. The remaining diffs are
all minor except for NFS, which includes both the fixes for bp
interaction AND fixes for a 'biodone(): buffer already done' lockup.
Sys/buf.h also contains a chaining structure which is not used by
this patchset but is used by other patches that are coming soon.
This patch deliniated by tags PRE_MAT_GETBUF and POST_MAT_GETBUF.
(sorry for the missing T matt)
1999-03-12 02:24:58 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
1c7c3c6a86 This is a rather large commit that encompasses the new swapper,
changes to the VM system to support the new swapper, VM bug
    fixes, several VM optimizations, and some additional revamping of the
    VM code.  The specific bug fixes will be documented with additional
    forced commits.  This commit is somewhat rough in regards to code
    cleanup issues.

Reviewed by:	"John S. Dyson" <root@dyson.iquest.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com>
1999-01-21 08:29:12 +00:00
Dmitrij Tejblum
10db74e96d (Hopefully) fix support for "large" files. Mostly cast block numbers to off_t
before they multiplied to block sizes.
1998-12-14 17:51:30 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
f1d19042b0 The "easy" fixes for compiling the kernel -Wunused: remove unreferenced static
and local variables, goto labels, and functions declared but not defined.
1998-12-07 21:58:50 +00:00
Peter Wemm
dad00f4e9c Remove [apparently] bogus casts to u_long for the vnode_pager_setsize()
second argument.  np_size is a 64 bit int, so is the second arg.  This
might have caused needless 2G/4G file size problems.

I believe it was Bruce who queried this.
1998-11-09 07:00:14 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
1cda241131 Mark directory buffers that have no valid data with B_INVAL
so that they are not put in the cache.
1998-09-29 22:01:10 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
113b88d241 When adding data to a buffer, we need to clear the B_NEEDCOMMIT flag
which says that the data is on server but not committed.
1998-09-29 21:46:54 +00:00
Doug Rabson
e69763a315 Cosmetic changes to the PAGE_XXX macros to make them consistent with
the other objects in vm.
1998-09-04 08:06:57 +00:00
Bruce Evans
4c4918c9e4 Avoid an egcs pessimization for 64-bit signed division on i386's.
Pre-2.8 versions of gcc generate a call to __divdi3() for all 64-bit
signed divisions, but egcs optimizes them to a shift and fixup when
the divisor is a constant power of 2.  Unfortunately, it generates
a call to __cmpdi2() for the fixup, although all except possibly
ancient versions of gcc and egcs do ordinary 64-bit comparisons
inline.
1998-06-14 15:52:00 +00:00
Peter Wemm
55b41976c1 Make sure we go a nfs_fsinfo() in get/putpages before calling
readrpc/writerpc, since they assume it's already been done.  This could
break if the first read/write access to a nfs filesystem was an exec() or
mmap() instead of a read(), write() syscall.  (or statfs()).
nfs_getpages() could return an errno (EOPNOTSUPP) instead of a VM_PAGER_*
return code.  Some layout tweaks for the get/putpages code.
1998-06-01 11:32:53 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7c1c33a7dd When using NFSv3, use the remote server's idea of the maximum file size
rather than assuming 2^64.  It may not like files that big. :-)
On the nfs server, calculate and report the max file size as the point
that the block numbers in the cache would turn negative.
(ie: 1099511627775 bytes (1TB)).

One of the things I'm worried about however, is that directory offsets
are really cookies on a NFSv3 server and can be rather large, especially
when/if the server generates the opaque directory cookies by using a local
filesystem offset in what comes out as the upper 32 bits of the 64 bit
cookie.  (a server is free to do this, it could save byte swapping
depending on the native 64 bit byte order)

Obtained from:	NetBSD
1998-05-30 16:33:58 +00:00
Peter Wemm
dfae73fd2e A cleaner fix for PR#5102, clear nonsense flags at mount time rather than
in the core of nfs_bio.c at the 11th hour.

PR:		5102
1998-05-20 08:02:24 +00:00
Peter Wemm
fe6c0d4599 Allow control of the attribute cache timeouts at mount time.
We had run out of bits in the nfs mount flags, I have moved the internal
state flags into a seperate variable.  These are no longer visible via
statfs(), but I don't know of anything that looks at them.
1998-05-19 07:11:27 +00:00
Steve Price
b9921401f1 Don't allow the readdirplus routine to be used in NFS V2.
PR:		5102
Reviewed by:	msmith
Submitted by:	Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@farm.org>
1998-03-28 16:05:05 +00:00
Julian Elischer
b1897c197c Reviewed by: dyson@freebsd.org (john Dyson), dg@root.com (david greenman)
Submitted by:	Kirk McKusick (mcKusick@mckusick.com)
Obtained from:  WHistle development tree
1998-03-08 09:59:44 +00:00
John Dyson
8f9110f6a1 This mega-commit is meant to fix numerous interrelated problems. There
has been some bitrot and incorrect assumptions in the vfs_bio code.  These
problems have manifest themselves worse on NFS type filesystems, but can
still affect local filesystems under certain circumstances.  Most of
the problems have involved mmap consistancy, and as a side-effect broke
the vfs.ioopt code.  This code might have been committed seperately, but
almost everything is interrelated.

1)	Allow (pmap_object_init_pt) prefaulting of buffer-busy pages that
	are fully valid.
2)	Rather than deactivating erroneously read initial (header) pages in
	kern_exec, we now free them.
3)	Fix the rundown of non-VMIO buffers that are in an inconsistent
	(missing vp) state.
4)	Fix the disassociation of pages from buffers in brelse.  The previous
	code had rotted and was faulty in a couple of important circumstances.
5)	Remove a gratuitious buffer wakeup in vfs_vmio_release.
6)	Remove a crufty and currently unused cluster mechanism for VBLK
	files in vfs_bio_awrite.  When the code is functional, I'll add back
	a cleaner version.
7)	The page busy count wakeups assocated with the buffer cache usage were
	incorrectly cleaned up in a previous commit by me.  Revert to the
	original, correct version, but with a cleaner implementation.
8)	The cluster read code now tries to keep data associated with buffers
	more aggressively (without breaking the heuristics) when it is presumed
	that the read data (buffers) will be soon needed.
9)	Change to filesystem lockmgr locks so that they use LK_NOPAUSE.  The
	delay loop waiting is not useful for filesystem locks, due to the
	length of the time intervals.
10)	Correct and clean-up spec_getpages.
11)	Implement a fully functional nfs_getpages, nfs_putpages.
12)	Fix nfs_write so that modifications are coherent with the NFS data on
	the server disk (at least as well as NFS seems to allow.)
13)	Properly support MS_INVALIDATE on NFS.
14)	Properly pass down MS_INVALIDATE to lower levels of the VM code from
	vm_map_clean.
15)	Better support the notion of pages being busy but valid, so that
	fewer in-transit waits occur.  (use p->busy more for pageouts instead
	of PG_BUSY.)  Since the page is fully valid, it is still usable for
	reads.
16)	It is possible (in error) for cached pages to be busy.  Make the
	page allocation code handle that case correctly.  (It should probably
	be a printf or panic, but I want the system to handle coding errors
	robustly.  I'll probably add a printf.)
17)	Correct the design and usage of vm_page_sleep.  It didn't handle
	consistancy problems very well, so make the design a little less
	lofty.  After vm_page_sleep, if it ever blocked, it is still important
	to relookup the page (if the object generation count changed), and
	verify it's status (always.)
18)	In vm_pageout.c, vm_pageout_clean had rotted, so clean that up.
19)	Push the page busy for writes and VM_PROT_READ into vm_pageout_flush.
20)	Fix vm_pager_put_pages and it's descendents to support an int flag
	instead of a boolean, so that we can pass down the invalidate bit.
1998-03-07 21:37:31 +00:00
Mike Smith
651ae11e2f Trivial filesystem getpages/putpages implementations, set the second.
These should be considered the first steps in a work-in-progress.
Submitted by:	Terry Lambert <terry@freebsd.org>
1998-03-06 09:46:52 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
0b08f5f737 Back out DIAGNOSTIC changes. 1998-02-06 12:14:30 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
47cfdb166d Turn DIAGNOSTIC into a new-style option. 1998-02-04 22:34:03 +00:00
Tor Egge
f5160d1e06 Release the buffer when an error occurs while reading directory entries. 1998-01-31 01:27:18 +00:00
John Dyson
33b90a70cd Various NFS fixes:
Make vfs_bio buffer mgmt work better.
	Buffers were being used after brelse.
	Make nfs_getpages work independently of other NFS
		interfaces.  This eliminates some difficult
		recursion problems and decreases pagefault
		overhead.
	Remove an erroneous vfs_unbusy_pages.
	Fix a reentrancy problem, with nfs_vinvalbuf when
		vnode is already being rundown.
	Reassignbuf wasn't being called when needed under
		certain circumstances.

	(Thanks to Bill Paul for help.)
1998-01-25 06:24:09 +00:00
John Dyson
95e5e988e0 Make our v_usecount vnode reference count work identically to the
original BSD code.  The association between the vnode and the vm_object
no longer includes reference counts.  The major difference is that
vm_object's are no longer freed gratuitiously from the vnode, and so
once an object is created for the vnode, it will last as long as the
vnode does.

When a vnode object reference count is incremented, then the underlying
vnode reference count is incremented also.  The two "objects" are now
more intimately related, and so the interactions are now much less
complex.

When vnodes are now normally placed onto the free queue with an object still
attached.  The rundown of the object happens at vnode rundown time, and
happens with exactly the same filesystem semantics of the original VFS
code.  There is absolutely no need for vnode_pager_uncache and other
travesties like that anymore.

A side-effect of these changes is that SMP locking should be much simpler,
the I/O copyin/copyout optimizations work, NFS should be more ponderable,
and further work on layered filesystems should be less frustrating, because
of the totally coherent management of the vnode objects and vnodes.

Please be careful with your system while running this code, but I would
greatly appreciate feedback as soon a reasonably possible.
1998-01-06 05:26:17 +00:00