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Ian Dowse
23f09d50bb Avoid using the 64-bit vm_pindex_t in a few places where 64-bit
types are not required, as the overhead is unnecessary:

 o In the i386 pmap_protect(), `sindex' and `eindex' represent page
   indices within the 32-bit virtual address space.
 o In swp_pager_meta_build() and swp_pager_meta_ctl(), use a temporary
   variable to store the low few bits of a vm_pindex_t that gets used
   as an array index.
 o vm_uiomove() uses `osize' and `idx' for page offsets within a
   map entry.
 o In vm_object_split(), `idx' is a page offset within a map entry.
2002-06-26 20:32:51 +00:00
Kenneth D. Merry
98cb733c67 At long last, commit the zero copy sockets code.
MAKEDEV:	Add MAKEDEV glue for the ti(4) device nodes.

ti.4:		Update the ti(4) man page to include information on the
		TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT and TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS kernel options,
		and also include information about the new character
		device interface and the associated ioctls.

man9/Makefile:	Add jumbo.9 and zero_copy.9 man pages and associated
		links.

jumbo.9:	New man page describing the jumbo buffer allocator
		interface and operation.

zero_copy.9:	New man page describing the general characteristics of
		the zero copy send and receive code, and what an
		application author should do to take advantage of the
		zero copy functionality.

NOTES:		Add entries for ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS, TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS,
		TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT, MSIZE, and MCLSHIFT.

conf/files:	Add uipc_jumbo.c and uipc_cow.c.

conf/options:	Add the 5 options mentioned above.

kern_subr.c:	Receive side zero copy implementation.  This takes
		"disposable" pages attached to an mbuf, gives them to
		a user process, and then recycles the user's page.
		This is only active when ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on
		and the kern.ipc.zero_copy.receive sysctl variable is
		set to 1.

uipc_cow.c:	Send side zero copy functions.  Takes a page written
		by the user and maps it copy on write and assigns it
		kernel virtual address space.  Removes copy on write
		mapping once the buffer has been freed by the network
		stack.

uipc_jumbo.c:	Jumbo disposable page allocator code.  This allocates
		(optionally) disposable pages for network drivers that
		want to give the user the option of doing zero copy
		receive.

uipc_socket.c:	Add kern.ipc.zero_copy.{send,receive} sysctls that are
		enabled if ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on.

		Add zero copy send support to sosend() -- pages get
		mapped into the kernel instead of getting copied if
		they meet size and alignment restrictions.

uipc_syscalls.c:Un-staticize some of the sf* functions so that they
		can be used elsewhere.  (uipc_cow.c)

if_media.c:	In the SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl in ifmedia_ioctl(), avoid
		calling malloc() with M_WAITOK.  Return an error if
		the M_NOWAIT malloc fails.

		The ti(4) driver and the wi(4) driver, at least, call
		this with a mutex held.  This causes witness warnings
		for 'ifconfig -a' with a wi(4) or ti(4) board in the
		system.  (I've only verified for ti(4)).

ip_output.c:	Fragment large datagrams so that each segment contains
		a multiple of PAGE_SIZE amount of data plus headers.
		This allows the receiver to potentially do page
		flipping on receives.

if_ti.c:	Add zero copy receive support to the ti(4) driver.  If
		TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS is not defined, it now uses the
		jumbo(9) buffer allocator for jumbo receive buffers.

		Add a new character device interface for the ti(4)
		driver for the new debugging interface.  This allows
		(a patched version of) gdb to talk to the Tigon board
		and debug the firmware.  There are also a few additional
		debugging ioctls available through this interface.

		Add header splitting support to the ti(4) driver.

		Tweak some of the default interrupt coalescing
		parameters to more useful defaults.

		Add hooks for supporting transmit flow control, but
		leave it turned off with a comment describing why it
		is turned off.

if_tireg.h:	Change the firmware rev to 12.4.11, since we're really
		at 12.4.11 plus fixes from 12.4.13.

		Add defines needed for debugging.

		Remove the ti_stats structure, it is now defined in
		sys/tiio.h.

ti_fw.h:	12.4.11 firmware.

ti_fw2.h:	12.4.11 firmware, plus selected fixes from 12.4.13,
		and my header splitting patches.  Revision 12.4.13
		doesn't handle 10/100 negotiation properly.  (This
		firmware is the same as what was in the tree previously,
		with the addition of header splitting support.)

sys/jumbo.h:	Jumbo buffer allocator interface.

sys/mbuf.h:	Add a new external mbuf type, EXT_DISPOSABLE, to
		indicate that the payload buffer can be thrown away /
		flipped to a userland process.

socketvar.h:	Add prototype for socow_setup.

tiio.h:		ioctl interface to the character portion of the ti(4)
		driver, plus associated structure/type definitions.

uio.h:		Change prototype for uiomoveco() so that we'll know
		whether the source page is disposable.

ufs_readwrite.c:Update for new prototype of uiomoveco().

vm_fault.c:	In vm_fault(), check to see whether we need to do a page
		based copy on write fault.

vm_object.c:	Add a new function, vm_object_allocate_wait().  This
		does the same thing that vm_object allocate does, except
		that it gives the caller the opportunity to specify whether
		it should wait on the uma_zalloc() of the object structre.

		This allows vm objects to be allocated while holding a
		mutex.  (Without generating WITNESS warnings.)

		vm_object_allocate() is implemented as a call to
		vm_object_allocate_wait() with the malloc flag set to
		M_WAITOK.

vm_object.h:	Add prototype for vm_object_allocate_wait().

vm_page.c:	Add page-based copy on write setup, clear and fault
		routines.

vm_page.h:	Add page based COW function prototypes and variable in
		the vm_page structure.

Many thanks to Drew Gallatin, who wrote the zero copy send and receive
code, and to all the other folks who have tested and reviewed this code
over the years.
2002-06-26 03:37:47 +00:00
Ian Dowse
6395da5437 Complete the initial set of VM changes required to support full
64-bit file sizes. This step simply addresses the remaining overflows,
and does attempt to optimise performance. The details are:

 o Use a 64-bit type for the vm_object `size' and the size argument
   to vm_object_allocate().
 o Use the correct type for index variables in dev_pager_getpages(),
   vm_object_page_clean() and vm_object_page_remove().
 o Avoid an overflow in the i386 pmap_object_init_pt().
2002-06-25 22:14:06 +00:00
Alan Cox
00e1854a1f o Replace GIANT_REQUIRED in vm_object_coalesce() by the acquisition and
release of Giant.
 o Reduce the scope of GIANT_REQUIRED in vm_map_insert().

These changes will enable us to remove the acquisition and release
of Giant from obreak().
2002-06-19 06:02:03 +00:00
Alan Cox
c5aaa06ded o Migrate vm_map_split() from vm_map.c to vm_object.c, renaming it
to vm_object_split().  Its interface should still be changed
   to resemble vm_object_shadow().
2002-06-02 23:54:09 +00:00
Alan Cox
72353893d4 o Condition vm_object_pmap_copy_1()'s compilation on the kernel
option ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT.  Unless this option is in effect,
   vm_object_pmap_copy_1() is not used.
2002-06-02 06:31:41 +00:00
Alan Cox
9917e01041 Further work on pushing Giant out of the vm_map layer and down
into the vm_object layer:
 o Acquire and release Giant in vm_object_shadow() and
   vm_object_page_remove().
 o Remove the GIANT_REQUIRED assertion preceding vm_map_delete()'s call
   to vm_object_page_remove().
 o Remove the acquisition and release of Giant around vm_map_lookup()'s
   call to vm_object_shadow().
2002-05-31 03:48:55 +00:00
Alan Cox
094f6d2694 o Remove GIANT_REQUIRED from vm_map_madvise(). Instead, acquire and
release Giant around vm_map_madvise()'s call to pmap_object_init_pt().
 o Replace GIANT_REQUIRED in vm_object_madvise() with the acquisition
   and release of Giant.
 o Remove the acquisition and release of Giant from madvise().
2002-05-18 07:48:06 +00:00
Alan Cox
47c3ccc467 o Acquire and release Giant in vm_object_reference() and
vm_object_deallocate(), replacing the assertion GIANT_REQUIRED.
 o Remove GIANT_REQUIRED from vm_map_protect() and vm_map_simplify_entry().
 o Acquire and release Giant around vm_map_protect()'s call to pmap_protect().

Altogether, these changes eliminate the need for mprotect() to acquire
and release Giant.
2002-05-12 05:22:56 +00:00
Alan Cox
c0b6bbb80b o Condition the compilation and use of vm_freeze_copyopts()
on ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT.
2002-05-06 05:45:57 +00:00
Alan Cox
dcc5840ed5 o Some improvements to the page coloring of vm objects, particularly,
for shadow objects.

Submitted by:	bde
2002-05-06 03:34:17 +00:00
Alan Cox
e86256c1f4 o Move vm_freeze_copyopts() from vm_map.{c.h} to vm_object.{c,h}. It's plainly
an operation on a vm_object and belongs in the latter place.
2002-05-06 00:12:47 +00:00
Alan Cox
79660d837c o Make _vm_object_allocate() and vm_object_allocate() callable
without holding Giant.
 o Begin documenting the trivial cases of the locking protocol
   on vm_object.
2002-05-04 20:23:48 +00:00
Alan Cox
a569838764 Reintroduce locking on accesses to vm_object_list. 2002-04-20 07:23:22 +00:00
John Baldwin
6008862bc2 Change callers of mtx_init() to pass in an appropriate lock type name. In
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.

Tested on:	i386, alpha, sparc64
2002-04-04 21:03:38 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
670d17b5c0 Remove references to vm_zone.h and switch over to the new uma API. 2002-03-20 04:02:59 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
8355f576a9 This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces
malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator.

Reviewed by:	arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
Alan Cox
9f0567f557 Remove vm_object_count: It's unused, incorrectly maintained and duplicates
information maintained by the zone allocator.
2002-03-17 18:37:37 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
a128794977 - Remove a number of extra newlines that do not belong here according to
style(9)
- Minor space adjustment in cases where we have "( ", " )", if(), return(),
  while(), for(), etc.
- Add /* SYMBOL */ after a few #endifs.

Reviewed by:	alc
2002-03-10 21:52:48 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
b9b7a4be90 Add a sequential iteration optimization to vm_object_page_clean(). This
moderately improves msync's and VM object flushing for objects containing
randomly dirtied pages (fsync(), msync(), filesystem update daemon),
and improves cpu use for small-ranged sequential msync()s in the face of
very large mmap()ings from O(N) to O(1) as might be performed by a database.

A sysctl, vm.msync_flush_flag, has been added and defaults to 3 (the two
committed optimizations are turned on by default).  0 will turn off both
optimizations.

This code has already been tested under stable and is one in a series of
memq / vp->v_dirtyblkhd / fsync optimizations to remove O(N^2) restart
conditions that will be coming down the pipe.

MFC after:	3 days
2002-03-06 02:42:56 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
7a5a635273 Move recently added procedure which was incorrectly placed within an
#ifdef DDB block.
2001-10-26 16:27:54 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
245df27cee Implement kern.maxvnodes. adjusting kern.maxvnodes now actually has a
real effect.

Optimize vfs_msync().  Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list.  Improves looping case by 500%.

Optimize ffs_sync().  Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list.  This makes a couple of assumptions,
which I believe are ok, in regards to vnode stability when the mount list
mutex is held.  Improves looping case by 500%.

(more optimization work is needed on top of these fixes)

MFC after:	1 week
2001-10-26 00:08:05 +00:00
Julian Elischer
b40ce4165d KSE Milestone 2
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.

Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org

X-MFC after:    ha ha ha ha
2001-09-12 08:38:13 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
b06805ad34 Remove the use of atomic ops to manipulate vm_object and vm_page flags.
Giant is required here, so they are superfluous.

Discussed with:	dillon
2001-07-31 04:03:53 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
1b40f8c036 Change inlines back into mainline code in preparation for mutexing. Also,
most of these inlines had been bloated in -current far beyond their
original intent.  Normalize prototypes and function declarations to be ANSI
only (half already were).  And do some general cleanup.

(kernel size also reduced by 50-100K, but that isn't the prime intent)
2001-07-04 20:15:18 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
54d9214595 whitespace / register cleanup 2001-07-04 19:00:13 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
0cddd8f023 With Alfred's permission, remove vm_mtx in favor of a fine-grained approach
(this commit is just the first stage).  Also add various GIANT_ macros to
formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal
fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree
before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal
fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can
operate without Giant.
2001-07-04 16:20:28 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
08442f8a82 Introduce numerous SMP friendly changes to the mbuf allocator. Namely,
introduce a modified allocation mechanism for mbufs and mbuf clusters; one
which can scale under SMP and which offers the possibility of resource
reclamation to be implemented in the future. Notable advantages:

 o Reduce contention for SMP by offering per-CPU pools and locks.
 o Better use of data cache due to per-CPU pools.
 o Much less code cache pollution due to excessively large allocation macros.
 o Framework for `grouping' objects from same page together so as to be able
   to possibly free wired-down pages back to the system if they are no longer
   needed by the network stacks.

 Additional things changed with this addition:

  - Moved some mbuf specific declarations and initializations from
    sys/conf/param.c into mbuf-specific code where they belong.
  - m_getclr() has been renamed to m_get_clrd() because the old name is really
    confusing. m_getclr() HAS been preserved though and is defined to the new
    name. No tree sweep has been done "to change the interface," as the old
    name will continue to be supported and is not depracated. The change was
    merely done because m_getclr() sounds too much like "m_get a cluster."
  - TEMPORARILY disabled mbtypes statistics displaying in netstat(1) and
    systat(1) (see TODO below).
  - Fixed systat(1) to display number of "free mbufs" based on new per-CPU
    stat structures.
  - Fixed netstat(1) to display new per-CPU stats based on sysctl-exported
    per-CPU stat structures. All infos are fetched via sysctl.

 TODO (in order of priority):

  - Re-enable mbtypes statistics in both netstat(1) and systat(1) after
    introducing an SMP friendly way to collect the mbtypes stats under the
    already introduced per-CPU locks (i.e. hopefully don't use atomic() - it
    seems too costly for a mere stat update, especially when other locks are
    already present).
  - Optionally have systat(1) display not only "total free mbufs" but also
    "total free mbufs per CPU pool."
  - Fix minor length-fetching issues in netstat(1) related to recently
    re-enabled option to read mbuf stats from a core file.
  - Move reference counters at least for mbuf clusters into an unused portion
    of the cluster itself, to save space and need to allocate a counter.
  - Look into introducing resource freeing possibly from a kproc.

Reviewed by (in parts): jlemon, jake, silby, terry
Tested by: jlemon (Intel & Alpha), mjacob (Intel & Alpha)
Preliminary performance measurements: jlemon (and me, obviously)
URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmilekic/mb_alloc/
2001-06-22 06:35:32 +00:00
John Baldwin
60517fd1f7 - Assert that the vm lock is held for all of _vm_object_allocate().
- Restore the previous order of setting up a new vm_object.  The previous
  had a small bug where we zero'd out the flags after we set the
  OBJ_ONEMAPPING flag.
- Add several asserts of vm_mtx.
- Assert Giant is held rather than locking and unlocking it in a few
  places.
- Add in some #ifdef objlocks code to lock individual vm objects when
  vm objects each have their own lock someday.
- Don't bother acquiring the allproc lock for a ddb command.  If DDB
  blocked on the lock, that would be worse than having an inconsistent
  allproc list.
2001-05-23 22:42:10 +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
Mark Murray
fb919e4d5a Undo part of the tangle of having sys/lock.h and sys/mutex.h included in
other "system" header files.

Also help the deprecation of lockmgr.h by making it a sub-include of
sys/lock.h and removing sys/lockmgr.h form kernel .c files.

Sort sys/*.h includes where possible in affected files.

OK'ed by:	bde (with reservations)
2001-05-01 08:13:21 +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
cc64b484dd use TAILQ_FOREACH, fix a comment's location 2001-04-15 10:22:04 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
971dd34298 if/panic -> KASSERT 2001-04-13 11:15:40 +00:00
John Baldwin
1005a129e5 Convert the allproc and proctree locks from lockmgr locks to sx locks. 2001-03-28 11:52:56 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
8125b1e66e Simplify vm_object_deallocate(), by decrementing the refcount first.
This allows some of the conditionals to be combined.
2001-03-04 20:25:23 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
9ed346bab0 Change and clean the mutex lock interface.
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:

mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)

similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:

mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.

The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.

Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:

MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH

The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:

mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.

Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.

Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.

Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.

Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.

Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
2001-02-09 06:11:45 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
fc2ffbe604 Mechanical change to use <sys/queue.h> macro API instead of
fondling implementation details.

Created with: sed(1)
Reviewed by: md5(1)
2001-02-04 13:13:25 +00:00
Jason Evans
1b367556b5 Convert all simplelocks to mutexes and remove the simplelock implementations. 2001-01-24 12:35:55 +00:00
Seigo Tanimura
21cd6e6232 - If swap metadata does not fit into the KVM, reduce the number of
struct swblock entries by dividing the number of the entries by 2
until the swap metadata fits.

- Reject swapon(2) upon failure of swap_zone allocation.

This is just a temporary fix. Better solutions include:
(suggested by:	dillon)

o reserving swap in SWAP_META_PAGES chunks, and
o swapping the swblock structures themselves.

Reviewed by:	alfred, dillon
2000-12-13 10:01:00 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
c0c2557090 - Change the allproc_lock to use a macro, ALLPROC_LOCK(how), instead
of explicit calls to lockmgr.  Also provides macros for the flags
  pased to specify shared, exclusive or release which map to the
  lockmgr flags.  This is so that the use of lockmgr can be easily
  replaced with optimized reader-writer locks.
- Add some locking that I missed the first time.
2000-12-13 00:17:05 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
553629ebc9 Protect the following with a lockmgr lock:
allproc
	zombproc
	pidhashtbl
	proc.p_list
	proc.p_hash
	nextpid

Reviewed by:	jhb
Obtained from:	BSD/OS and netbsd
2000-11-22 07:42:04 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
8b03c8ed5e This is a cleanup patch to Peter's new OBJT_PHYS VM object type
and sysv shared memory support for it.  It implements a new
    PG_UNMANAGED flag that has slightly different characteristics
    from PG_FICTICIOUS.

    A new sysctl, kern.ipc.shm_use_phys has been added to enable the
    use of physically-backed sysv shared memory rather then swap-backed.
    Physically backed shm segments are not tracked with PV entries,
    allowing programs which use a large shm segment as a rendezvous
    point to operate without eating an insane amount of KVM in the
    PV entry management.  Read: Oracle.

    Peter's OBJT_PHYS object will also allow us to eventually implement
    page-table sharing and/or 4MB physical page support for such segments.
    We're half way there.
2000-05-29 22:40:54 +00:00
Peter Wemm
0385347c1a Implement an optimization of the VM<->pmap API. Pass vm_page_t's directly
to various pmap_*() functions instead of looking up the physical address
and passing that.  In many cases, the first thing the pmap code was doing
was going to a lot of trouble to get back the original vm_page_t, or
it's shadow pv_table entry.

Inspired by: John Dyson's 1998 patches.

Also:
Eliminate pv_table as a seperate thing and build it into a machine
dependent part of vm_page_t.  This eliminates having a seperate set of
structions that shadow each other in a 1:1 fashion that we often went to
a lot of trouble to translate from one to the other. (see above)
This happens to save 4 bytes of physical memory for each page in the
system.  (8 bytes on the Alpha).

Eliminate the use of the phys_avail[] array to determine if a page is
managed (ie: it has pv_entries etc).  Store this information in a flag.
Things like device_pager set it because they create vm_page_t's on the
fly that do not have pv_entries.  This makes it easier to "unmanage" a
page of physical memory (this will be taken advantage of in subsequent
commits).

Add a function to add a new page to the freelist.  This could be used
for reclaiming the previously wasted pages left over from preloaded
loader(8) files.

Reviewed by:	dillon
2000-05-21 12:50:18 +00:00
Alan Cox
d7414c4446 vm_object_shadow: Remove an incorrect assertion. In obscure circumstances
vm_object_shadow can be called on an object with ref_count > 1 and
OBJ_ONEMAPPING set.  This isn't really a problem for vm_object_shadow.
2000-04-19 16:32:04 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
5929bcfaba Revert spelling mistake I made in the previous commit
Requested by: Alan and Bruce
2000-03-27 20:41:17 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
956f31353c Spelling 2000-03-26 15:20:23 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
db5f635acc Eliminate the undocumented, experimental, non-delivering and highly
dangerous MAX_PERF option.
2000-03-16 08:51:55 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
4f79d873c1 Add MAP_NOSYNC feature to mmap(), and MADV_NOSYNC and MADV_AUTOSYNC to
madvise().

    This feature prevents the update daemon from gratuitously flushing
    dirty pages associated with a mapped file-backed region of memory.  The
    system pager will still page the memory as necessary and the VM system
    will still be fully coherent with the filesystem.  Modifications made
    by other means to the same area of memory, for example by write(), are
    unaffected.  The feature works on a page-granularity basis.

    MAP_NOSYNC allows one to use mmap() to share memory between processes
    without incuring any significant filesystem overhead, putting it in
    the same performance category as SysV Shared memory and anonymous memory.

Reviewed by: julian, alc, dg
1999-12-12 03:19:33 +00:00