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Mark Johnston
81302f1d77 Fix boot on systems where NUMA domain 0 is unpopulated.
- Add vm_phys_early_add_seg(), complementing vm_phys_early_alloc(), to
  ensure that segments registered during hammer_time() are placed in the
  right domain.  Otherwise, since the SRAT is not parsed at that point,
  we just add them to domain 0, which may be incorrect and results in a
  domain with only several MB worth of memory.
- Fix uma_startup1() to try allocating memory for zones from any domain.
  If domain 0 is unpopulated, the allocation will simply fail, resulting
  in a page fault slightly later during boot.
- Change _vm_phys_domain() to return -1 for addresses not covered by the
  affinity table, and change vm_phys_early_alloc() to handle wildcard
  domains.  This is necessary on amd64, where the page array is dense
  and pmap_page_array_startup() may allocate page table pages for
  non-existent page frames.

Reported and tested by:	Rafael Kitover <rkitover@gmail.com>
Reviewed by:	cem (earlier version), kib
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25001
2020-05-28 19:41:00 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
b7565d44df Encapsulate phys_avail manipulation in a set of simple routines. Add a
NUMA aware boot time memory allocator that will be used to allocate early
domain correct structures.  Code partially submitted by gallatin.

Reviewed by:	gallatin, kib
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	Netflix
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21251
2019-08-18 07:06:31 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
2194393787 Move phys_avail definition into MI code. It is consumed in the MI layer and
doing so adds more flexibility with less redundant code.

Reviewed by:	jhb, markj, kib
Sponsored by:	Netflix
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21250
2019-08-16 00:45:14 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
c168508655 Add two new kernel options to control memory locality on NUMA hardware.
- UMA_XDOMAIN enables an additional per-cpu bucket for freed memory that
   was freed on a different domain from where it was allocated.  This is
   only used for UMA_ZONE_NUMA (first-touch) zones.
 - UMA_FIRSTTOUCH sets the default UMA policy to be first-touch for all
   zones.  This tries to maintain locality for kernel memory.

Reviewed by:	gallatin, alc, kib
Tested by:	pho, gallatin
Sponsored by:	Netflix
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20929
2019-08-06 21:50:34 +00:00
Doug Moore
b8590dae50 The function vm_phys_free_contig invokes vm_phys_free_pages for every
power-of-two page block it frees, launching an unsuccessful search for
a buddy to pair up with each time.  The only possible buddy-up mergers
are across the boundaries of the freed region, so change
vm_phys_free_contig simply to enqueue the freed interior blocks, via a
new function vm_phys_enqueue_contig, and then call vm_phys_free_pages
on the bounding blocks to create as big a cross-boundary block as
possible after buddy-merging.

The only callers of vm_phys_free_contig at the moment call it in
situations where merging blocks across the boundary is clearly
impossible, so just call vm_phys_enqueue_contig in those places and
avoid trying to buddy-up at all.

One beneficiary of this change is in breaking reservations.  For the
case where memory is freed in breaking a reservation with only the
first and last pages allocated, the number of cycles consumed by the
operation drops about 11% with this change.

Suggested by: alc
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: kib, markj (mentors)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16901
2019-05-31 21:02:42 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
f2a496d667 MI VM: Make it possible to set size of superpage at boot instead of compile time.
In order to allow single kernel to use PAE pagetables on i386 if
hardware supports it, and fall back to classic two-level paging
structures if not, superpage code should be able to adopt to either 2M
or 4M superpages size.  There I make MI VM structures large enough to
track the biggest possible superpage, by allowing architecture to
define VM_NFREEORDER_MAX and VM_LEVEL_0_ORDER_MAX constants.
Corresponding VM_NFREEORDER and VM_LEVEL_0_ORDER symbols can be
defined as runtime values and must be less than the _MAX constants.
If architecture does not define _MAXs, it is assumed that _MAX ==
normal constant.

Reviewed by:	markj
Tested by:	pho (as part of the larger patch)
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	1 week
Differential revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18853
2019-01-18 13:35:06 +00:00
Mark Johnston
662e7fa8d9 Create some global domainsets and refactor NUMA registration.
Pre-defined policies are useful when integrating the domainset(9)
policy machinery into various kernel memory allocators.

The refactoring will make it easier to add NUMA support for other
architectures.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed by:	alc, gallatin, jeff, kib
Tested by:	pho (part of a larger patch)
MFC after:	3 days
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17416
2018-10-20 17:36:00 +00:00
Alan Cox
89ea39a727 Update the physical page selection strategy used by vm_page_import() so
that it does not cause rapid fragmentation of the free physical memory.

Reviewed by:	jeff, markj (an earlier version)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15976
2018-06-26 18:29:56 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
c33e3a642b Add a uma cache of free pages in the DEFAULT freepool. This gives us
per-cpu alloc and free of pages.  The cache is filled with as few trips
to the phys allocator as possible by the use of a new
vm_phys_alloc_npages() function which allocates as many as N pages.

This code was originally by markj with the import function rewritten by
me.

Reviewed by:	markj, kib
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14905
2018-04-01 04:50:05 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
146bf2c66d Move vm_ndomains to vm.h where it can be used with a single header include
rather than requiring a half-dozen.  Many non-vm files may want to know
the number of valid domains.

Sponsored by:	Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
2018-03-27 03:27:02 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
e2068d0bcd Use per-domain locks for vm page queue free. Move paging control from
global to per-domain state.  Protect reservations with the free lock
from the domain that they belong to.  Refactor to make vm domains more
of a first class object.

Reviewed by:    markj, kib, gallatin
Tested by:      pho
Sponsored by:   Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14000
2018-02-06 22:10:07 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
b6715dab8f Move VM_NUMA_ALLOC and DEVICE_NUMA under the single global config option NUMA.
Sponsored by:	Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Discussed with:	jhb
2018-01-14 03:36:03 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
6f4acaf4c9 Add support for NUMA domains to bus dma tags. This causes all memory
allocated with a tag to come from the specified domain if it meets the
other constraints provided by the tag.  Automatically create a tag at
the root of each bus specifying the domain local to that bus if
available.

Reviewed by:	jhb, kib
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13545
2018-01-12 23:34:16 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
7a469c8ef3 Implement NUMA policy for kmem_*(9). This maintains compatibility with
reservations by giving each memory domain its own KVA space in vmem that
is naturally aligned on superpage boundaries.

Reviewed by:	alc, markj, kib  (some objections)
Sponsored by:	Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Tested by;	pho
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13289
2018-01-12 23:13:55 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
3f289c3fcf Implement 'domainset', a cpuset based NUMA policy mechanism. This allows
userspace to control NUMA policy administratively and programmatically.

Implement domainset based iterators in the page layer.

Remove the now legacy numa_* syscalls.

Cleanup some header polution created by having seq.h in proc.h.

Reviewed by:	markj, kib
Discussed with:	alc
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13403
2018-01-12 22:48:23 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
ef435ae7de Move domain iterators into the page layer where domain selection should take
place.  This makes the majority of the phys layer explicitly domain specific.

Reviewed by:	markj, kib (some objections)
Discussed with:	alc
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	Netflix & Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13014
2017-11-28 23:18:35 +00:00
Mark Johnston
d2b677cef6 Avoid unnecessary lookups when initializing the vm_page array.
This gives a marginal improvement in the vm_page_array initialization
time. Also garbage-collect the now-unused vm_phys_paddr_to_segind().

Reviewed by:	alc, kib
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13270
2017-11-27 17:46:38 +00:00
Pedro F. Giffuni
fe267a5590 sys: general adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

No functional change intended.
2017-11-27 15:23:17 +00:00
Mark Johnston
b20bf182e6 Move vm_phys_init_page() to vm_page.c.
Suggested by:	kib
Reviewed by:	alc, kib
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13250
2017-11-26 19:17:55 +00:00
Mateusz Guzik
1dbf52e7d9 Reduce traffic on vm_cnt.v_free_count
The variable is modified with the highly contended page free queue lock.
It unnecessarily shares a cacheline with purely read-only fields and is
re-read after the lock is dropped in the page allocation code making the
hold time longer.

Pad the variable just like the others and store the value as found with
the lock held instead of re-reading.

Provides a modest 1%-ish speed up in concurrent page faults.

Reviewed by:	kib, markj
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12665
2017-10-13 21:54:34 +00:00
Mark Johnston
f93f7cf199 Speed up vm_page_array initialization.
We currently initialize the vm_page array in three passes: one to zero
the array, one to initialize the "order" field of each page (necessary
when inserting them into the vm_phys buddy allocator one-by-one), and
one to initialize the remaining non-zero fields and individually insert
each page into the allocator.

Merge the three passes into one following a suggestion from alc:
initialize vm_page fields in a single pass, and use vm_phys_free_contig()
to efficiently insert physical memory segments into the buddy allocator.
This reduces the initialization time to a third or a quarter of what it
was before on most systems that I tested.

Reviewed by:	alc, kib
MFC after:	3 weeks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12248
2017-09-07 21:43:39 +00:00
Mark Johnston
dbbaf04f1e Remove support for idle page zeroing.
Idle page zeroing has been disabled by default on all architectures since
r170816 and has some bugs that make it seemingly unusable. Specifically,
the idle-priority pagezero thread exacerbates contention for the free page
lock, and yields the CPU without releasing it in non-preemptive kernels. The
pagezero thread also does not behave correctly when superpage reservations
are enabled: its target is a function of v_free_count, which includes
reserved-but-free pages, but it is only able to zero pages belonging to the
physical memory allocator.

Reviewed by:	alc, imp, kib
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7714
2016-09-03 20:38:13 +00:00
John Baldwin
62d70a8174 Add more fine-grained kernel options for NUMA support.
VM_NUMA_ALLOC is used to enable use of domain-aware memory allocation in
the virtual memory system.  DEVICE_NUMA is used to enable affinity
reporting for devices such as bus_get_domain().

MAXMEMDOM must still be set to a value greater than for any NUMA support
to be effective.  Note that 'cpuset -gd' always works if MAXMEMDOM is
enabled and the system supports NUMA.

Reviewed by:	kib
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5782
2016-04-09 13:58:04 +00:00
Alan Cox
c869e67208 Introduce a new mechanism for relocating virtual pages to a new physical
address and use this mechanism when:

1. kmem_alloc_{attr,contig}() can't find suitable free pages in the physical
   memory allocator's free page lists.  This replaces the long-standing
   approach of scanning the inactive and inactive queues, converting clean
   pages into PG_CACHED pages and laundering dirty pages.  In contrast, the
   new mechanism does not use PG_CACHED pages nor does it trigger a large
   number of I/O operations.

2. on 32-bit MIPS processors, uma_small_alloc() and the pmap can't find
   free pages in the physical memory allocator's free page lists that are
   covered by the direct map.  Tested by: adrian

3. ttm_bo_global_init() and ttm_vm_page_alloc_dma32() can't find suitable
   free pages in the physical memory allocator's free page lists.

In the coming months, I expect that this new mechanism will be applied in
other places.  For example, balloon drivers should use relocation to
minimize fragmentation of the guest physical address space.

Make vm_phys_alloc_contig() a little smarter (and more efficient in some
cases).  Specifically, use vm_phys_segs[] earlier to avoid scanning free
page lists that can't possibly contain suitable pages.

Reviewed by:	kib, markj
Glanced at:	jhb
Discussed with:	jeff
Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4444
2015-12-19 18:42:50 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
6520495abc Add an initial NUMA affinity/policy configuration for threads and processes.
This is based on work done by jeff@ and jhb@, as well as the numa.diff
patch that has been circulating when someone asks for first-touch NUMA
on -10 or -11.

* Introduce a simple set of VM policy and iterator types.
* tie the policy types into the vm_phys path for now, mirroring how
  the initial first-touch allocation work was enabled.
* add syscalls to control changing thread and process defaults.
* add a global NUMA VM domain policy.
* implement a simple cascade policy order - if a thread policy exists, use it;
  if a process policy exists, use it; use the default policy.
* processes inherit policies from their parent processes, threads inherit
  policies from their parent threads.
* add a simple tool (numactl) to query and modify default thread/process
  policities.
* add documentation for the new syscalls, for numa and for numactl.
* re-enable first touch NUMA again by default, as now policies can be
  set in a variety of methods.

This is only relevant for very specific workloads.

This doesn't pretend to be a final NUMA solution.

The previous defaults in -HEAD (with MAXMEMDOM set) can be achieved by
'sysctl vm.default_policy=rr'.

This is only relevant if MAXMEMDOM is set to something other than 1.
Ie, if you're using GENERIC or a modified kernel with non-NUMA, then
this is a glorified no-op for you.

Thank you to Norse Corp for giving me access to rather large
(for FreeBSD!) NUMA machines in order to develop and verify this.

Thank you to Dell for providing me with dual socket sandybridge
and westmere v3 hardware to do NUMA development with.

Thank you to Scott Long at Netflix for providing me with access
to the two-socket, four-domain haswell v3 hardware.

Thank you to Peter Holm for running the stress testing suite
against the NUMA branch during various stages of development!

Tested:

* MIPS (regression testing; non-NUMA)
* i386 (regression testing; non-NUMA GENERIC)
* amd64 (regression testing; non-NUMA GENERIC)
* westmere, 2 socket (thankyou norse!)
* sandy bridge, 2 socket (thankyou dell!)
* ivy bridge, 2 socket (thankyou norse!)
* westmere-EX, 4 socket / 1TB RAM (thankyou norse!)
* haswell, 2 socket (thankyou norse!)
* haswell v3, 2 socket (thankyou dell)
* haswell v3, 2x18 core (thankyou scott long / netflix!)

* Peter Holm ran a stress test suite on this work and found one
  issue, but has not been able to verify it (it doesn't look NUMA
  related, and he only saw it once over many testing runs.)

* I've tested bhyve instances running in fixed NUMA domains and cpusets;
  all seems to work correctly.

Verified:

* intel-pcm - pcm-numa.x and pcm-memory.x, whilst selecting different
  NUMA policies for processes under test.

Review:

This was reviewed through phabricator (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2559)
as well as privately and via emails to freebsd-arch@.  The git history
with specific attributes is available at https://github.com/erikarn/freebsd/
in the NUMA branch (https://github.com/erikarn/freebsd/compare/local/adrian_numa_policy).

This has been reviewed by a number of people (stas, rpaulo, kib, ngie,
wblock) but not achieved a clear consensus.  My hope is that with further
exposure and testing more functionality can be implemented and evaluated.

Notes:

* The VM doesn't handle unbalanced domains very well, and if you have an overly
  unbalanced memory setup whilst under high memory pressure, VM page allocation
  may fail leading to a kernel panic.  This was a problem in the past, but it's
  much more easily triggered now with these tools.

* This work only controls the path through vm_phys; it doesn't yet strongly/predictably
  affect contigmalloc, KVA placement, UMA, etc.  So, driver placement of memory
  isn't really guaranteed in any way.  That's next on my plate.

Sponsored by:	Norse Corp, Inc.; Dell
2015-07-11 15:21:37 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
cf82d8112e oops - how'd i miss this. Sorry! 2015-05-08 06:02:23 +00:00
Adrian Chadd
415d7ccab2 Add initial memory locality cost awareness to the VM, and include
a basic ACPI SLIT table parser.

For now this just exports the map via sysctl; it'll eventually be useful
to userland when there's more useful NUMA support in -HEAD.

* Add an optional mem_locality map;
* add a mapping function taking from/to domain and returning the
  relative cost, or -1 if it's not available;
* Add a very basic SLIT parser to x86 ACPI.

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2460
Reviewed by:	rpaulo, stas, jhb
Sponsored by:	Norse Corp, Inc (hardware, coding); Dell (hardware)
2015-05-08 00:56:56 +00:00
Alan Cox
d866a563d4 The physical memory allocator supports the use of distinct free lists for
managing pages from different address ranges.  Generally speaking, this
feature is used to increase the likelihood that physical pages are
available that can meet special DMA requirements or can be accessed through
a limited-coverage direct mapping (e.g., MIPS).  However, prior to this
change, the configuration of the free lists was static, i.e., it was
determined at compile time.  Consequentally, free lists could be created
for address ranges that held no actual pages, for example, on 32-bit MIPS-
based systems with 512 MB or less of physical memory.  This change makes
the creation of the free lists dynamic, i.e., it is based on the available
physical memory at boot time.

On 64-bit x86-based systems with 64 GB or more of physical memory, create
free lists for managing pages with physical addresses below 4 GB.  This
change is to address reported problems with initializing devices that
require the allocation of physical pages below 4 GB on some systems with
128 GB or more of physical memory.

PR:		185727
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1274
Reviewed by:	jhb, kib
MFC after:	3 weeks
Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon Storage Division
2014-12-31 00:54:38 +00:00
Alan Cox
271f0f1219 Enable the use of VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on amd64 and i386, making it the default
on i386 PAE.  Previously, VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE could not be used on amd64 and
i386 because vm_page_startup() would not create vm_page structures for the
kernel page table pages allocated during pmap_bootstrap() but those vm_page
structures are needed when the kernel attempts to promote the corresponding
kernel virtual addresses to superpage mappings.  To address this problem, a
new public function, vm_phys_add_seg(), is introduced and vm_phys_init() is
updated to reflect the creation of vm_phys_seg structures by calls to
vm_phys_add_seg().

Discussed with:	Svatopluk Kraus
MFC after:	3 weeks
Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon Storage Division
2014-11-15 23:40:44 +00:00
Bryan Drewery
44f1c91610 Rename global cnt to vm_cnt to avoid shadowing.
To reduce the diff struct pcu.cnt field was not renamed, so
PCPU_OP(cnt.field) is still used. pc_cnt and pcpu are also used in
kvm(3) and vmstat(8). The goal was to not affect externally used KPI.

Bump __FreeBSD_version_ in case some out-of-tree module/code relies on the
the global cnt variable.

Exp-run revealed no ports using it directly.

No objection from:	arch@
Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon Storage Division
2014-03-22 10:26:09 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
449c2e92c9 Split the pagequeues per NUMA domains, and split pageademon process
into threads each processing queue in a single domain.  The structure
of the pagedaemons and queues is kept intact, most of the changes come
from the need for code to find an owning page queue for given page,
calculated from the segment containing the page.

The tie between NUMA domain and pagedaemon thread/pagequeue split is
rather arbitrary, the multithreaded daemon could be allowed for the
single-domain machines, or one domain might be split into several page
domains, to further increase concurrency.

Right now, each pagedaemon thread tries to reach the global target,
precalculated at the start of the pass.  This is not optimal, since it
could cause excessive page deactivation and freeing.  The code should
be changed to re-check the global page deficit state in the loop after
some number of iterations.

The pagedaemons reach the quorum before starting the OOM, since one
thread inability to meet the target is normal for split queues.  Only
when all pagedaemons fail to produce enough reusable pages, OOM is
started by single selected thread.

Launder is modified to take into account the segments layout with
regard to the region for which cleaning is performed.

Based on the preliminary patch by jeff, sponsored by EMC / Isilon
Storage Division.

Reviewed by:	alc
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2013-08-07 16:36:38 +00:00
Attilio Rao
7e226537c7 o Add accessor functions to add and remove pages from a specific
freelist.
o Split the pool of free pages queues really by domain and not rely on
  definition of VM_RAW_NFREELIST.
o For MAXMEMDOM > 1, wrap the RR allocation logic into a specific
  function that is called when calculating the allocation domain.
  The RR counter is kept, currently, per-thread.
  In the future it is expected that such function evolves in a real
  policy decision referee, based on specific informations retrieved by
  per-thread and per-vm_object attributes.
o Add the concept of "probed domains" under the form of vm_ndomains.
  It is responsibility for every architecture willing to support multiple
  memory domains to correctly probe vm_ndomains along with mem_affinity
  segments attributes.  Those two values are supposed to remain always
  consistent.
  Please also note that vm_ndomains and td_dom_rr_idx are both int
  because segments already store domains as int.  Ideally u_int would
  have much more sense. Probabilly this should be cleaned up in the
  future.
o Apply RR domain selection also to vm_phys_zero_pages_idle().

Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Partly obtained from:	jeff
Reviewed by:	alc
Tested by:	jeff
2013-05-13 15:40:51 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
43f48b65c0 Move the declaration of vm_phys_paddr_to_vm_page() from vm/vm_page.h
to vm/vm_phys.h, where it belongs.

Requested and reviewed by:	alc
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-11-16 05:55:56 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
b6de32bd9b Add a facility to register a range of physical addresses to be used
for allocation of fictitious pages, for which PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE()
returns proper fictitious vm_page_t. The range should be de-registered
after consumer stopped using it.

De-inline the PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() since it now carries code to iterate
over registered ranges.

A hash container might be developed instead of range registration
interface, and fake pages could be put automatically into the hash,
were PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() could look them up later. This should be
considered before the MFC of the commit is done.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by:	alc
MFC after:	1 month
2012-05-12 20:42:56 +00:00
Alan Cox
fbd80bd047 Refactor the code that performs physically contiguous memory allocation,
yielding a new public interface, vm_page_alloc_contig().  This new function
addresses some of the limitations of the current interfaces, contigmalloc()
and kmem_alloc_contig().  For example, the physically contiguous memory that
is allocated with those interfaces can only be allocated to the kernel vm
object and must be mapped into the kernel virtual address space.  It also
provides functionality that vm_phys_alloc_contig() doesn't, such as wiring
the returned pages.  Moreover, unlike that function, it respects the low
water marks on the paging queues and wakes up the page daemon when
necessary.  That said, at present, this new function can't be applied to all
types of vm objects.  However, that restriction will be eliminated in the
coming weeks.

From a design standpoint, this change also addresses an inconsistency
between vm_phys_alloc_contig() and the other vm_phys_alloc*() functions.
Specifically, vm_phys_alloc_contig() manipulated vm_page fields that other
functions in vm/vm_phys.c didn't.  Moreover, vm_phys_alloc_contig() knew
about vnodes and reservations.  Now, vm_page_alloc_contig() is responsible
for these things.

Reviewed by:	kib
Discussed with:	jhb
2011-11-16 16:46:09 +00:00
Alan Cox
5c1f2cc4c2 Eliminate vm_phys_bootstrap_alloc(). It was a failed attempt at
eliminating duplicated code in the various pmap implementations.

Micro-optimize vm_phys_free_pages().

Introduce vm_phys_free_contig().  It is fast routine for freeing an
arbitrary number of physically contiguous pages.  In particular, it
doesn't require the number of pages to be a power of two.

Use "u_long" instead of "unsigned long".

Bruce Evans (bde@) has convinced me that the "boundary" parameters
to kmem_alloc_contig(), vm_phys_alloc_contig(), and
vm_reserv_reclaim_contig() should be of type "vm_paddr_t" and not
"u_long".  Make this change.
2011-10-30 05:06:14 +00:00
John Baldwin
a3870a1826 Very rough first cut at NUMA support for the physical page allocator. For
now it uses a very dumb first-touch allocation policy.  This will change in
the future.
- Each architecture indicates the maximum number of supported memory domains
  via a new VM_NDOMAIN parameter in <machine/vmparam.h>.
- Each cpu now has a PCPU_GET(domain) member to indicate the memory domain
  a CPU belongs to.  Domain values are dense and numbered from 0.
- When a platform supports multiple domains, the default freelist
  (VM_FREELIST_DEFAULT) is split up into N freelists, one for each domain.
  The MD code is required to populate an array of mem_affinity structures.
  Each entry in the array defines a range of memory (start and end) and a
  domain for the range.  Multiple entries may be present for a single
  domain.  The list is terminated by an entry where all fields are zero.
  This array of structures is used to split up phys_avail[] regions that
  fall in VM_FREELIST_DEFAULT into per-domain freelists.
- Each memory domain has a separate lookup-array of freelists that is
  used when fulfulling a physical memory allocation.  Right now the
  per-domain freelists are listed in a round-robin order for each domain.
  In the future a table such as the ACPI SLIT table may be used to order
  the per-domain lookup lists based on the penalty for each memory domain
  relative to a specific domain.  The lookup lists may be examined via a
  new vm.phys.lookup_lists sysctl.
- The first-touch policy is implemented by using PCPU_GET(domain) to
  pick a lookup list when allocating memory.

Reviewed by:	alc
2010-07-27 20:33:50 +00:00
Jayachandran C.
49ca10d40c Redo the page table page allocation on MIPS, as suggested by
alc@.

The UMA zone based allocation is replaced by a scheme that creates
a new free page list for the KSEG0 region, and a new function
in sys/vm that allocates pages from a specific free page list.

This also fixes a race condition introduced by the UMA based page table
page allocation code. Dropping the page queue and pmap locks before
the call to uma_zfree, and re-acquiring them afterwards  will introduce
a race condtion(noted by alc@).

The changes are :
- Revert the earlier changes in MIPS pmap.c that added UMA zone for
page table pages.
- Add a new freelist VM_FREELIST_HIGHMEM to MIPS vmparam.h for memory that
is not directly mapped (in 32bit kernel). Normal page allocations will first
try the HIGHMEM freelist and then the default(direct mapped) freelist.
- Add a new function 'vm_page_t vm_page_alloc_freelist(int flind, int
order, int req)' to vm/vm_page.c to allocate a page from a specified
freelist. The MIPS page table pages will be allocated using this function
from the freelist containing direct mapped pages.
- Move the page initialization code from vm_phys_alloc_contig() to a
new function vm_page_alloc_init(), and use this function to initialize
pages in vm_page_alloc_freelist() too.
- Split the  function vm_phys_alloc_pages(int pool, int order) to create
vm_phys_alloc_freelist_pages(int flind, int pool, int order), and use
this function from both vm_page_alloc_freelist() and vm_phys_alloc_pages().

Reviewed by:	alc
2010-07-21 09:27:00 +00:00
Alan Cox
3153e878dd Add support to the virtual memory system for configuring machine-
dependent memory attributes:

Rename vm_cache_mode_t to vm_memattr_t.  The new name reflects the
fact that there are machine-dependent memory attributes that have
nothing to do with controlling the cache's behavior.

Introduce vm_object_set_memattr() for setting the default memory
attributes that will be given to an object's pages.

Introduce and use pmap_page_{get,set}_memattr() for getting and
setting a page's machine-dependent memory attributes.  Add full
support for these functions on amd64 and i386 and stubs for them on
the other architectures.  The function pmap_page_set_memattr() is also
responsible for any other machine-dependent aspects of changing a
page's memory attributes, such as flushing the cache or updating the
direct map.  The uses include kmem_alloc_contig(), vm_page_alloc(),
and the device pager:

  kmem_alloc_contig() can now be used to allocate kernel memory with
  non-default memory attributes on amd64 and i386.

  vm_page_alloc() and the device pager will set the memory attributes
  for the real or fictitious page according to the object's default
  memory attributes.

Update the various pmap functions on amd64 and i386 that map pages to
incorporate each page's memory attributes in the mapping.

Notes: (1) Inherent to this design are safety features that prevent
the specification of inconsistent memory attributes by different
mappings on amd64 and i386.  In addition, the device pager provides a
warning when a device driver creates a fictitious page with memory
attributes that are inconsistent with the real page that the
fictitious page is an alias for. (2) Storing the machine-dependent
memory attributes for amd64 and i386 as a dedicated "int" in "struct
md_page" represents a compromise between space efficiency and the ease
of MFCing these changes to RELENG_7.

In collaboration with: jhb

Approved by:	re (kib)
2009-07-12 23:31:20 +00:00
Alan Cox
e999111ae7 This change is the next step in implementing the cache control functionality
required by video card drivers.  Specifically, this change introduces
vm_cache_mode_t with an appropriate VM_CACHE_DEFAULT definition on all
architectures.  In addition, this changes adds a vm_cache_mode_t parameter
to kmem_alloc_contig() and vm_phys_alloc_contig().  These will be the
interfaces for allocating mapped kernel memory and physical memory,
respectively, with non-default cache modes.

In collaboration with:	jhb
2009-06-26 04:47:43 +00:00
Alan Cox
e35395ce21 Modify vm_phys_unfree_page() so that it no longer requires the given
page to be in the free lists.  Instead, it now returns TRUE if it
removed the page from the free lists and FALSE if the page was not
in the free lists.

This change is required to support superpage reservations.  Specifically,
once reservations are introduced, a cached page can either be in the
free lists or a reservation.
2007-12-20 22:45:54 +00:00
Alan Cox
7bfda801a8 Change the management of cached pages (PQ_CACHE) in two fundamental
ways:

(1) Cached pages are no longer kept in the object's resident page
splay tree and memq.  Instead, they are kept in a separate per-object
splay tree of cached pages.  However, access to this new per-object
splay tree is synchronized by the _free_ page queues lock, not to be
confused with the heavily contended page queues lock.  Consequently, a
cached page can be reclaimed by vm_page_alloc(9) without acquiring the
object's lock or the page queues lock.

This solves a problem independently reported by tegge@ and Isilon.
Specifically, they observed the page daemon consuming a great deal of
CPU time because of pages bouncing back and forth between the cache
queue (PQ_CACHE) and the inactive queue (PQ_INACTIVE).  The source of
this problem turned out to be a deadlock avoidance strategy employed
when selecting a cached page to reclaim in vm_page_select_cache().
However, the root cause was really that reclaiming a cached page
required the acquisition of an object lock while the page queues lock
was already held.  Thus, this change addresses the problem at its
root, by eliminating the need to acquire the object's lock.

Moreover, keeping cached pages in the object's primary splay tree and
memq was, in effect, optimizing for the uncommon case.  Cached pages
are reclaimed far, far more often than they are reactivated.  Instead,
this change makes reclamation cheaper, especially in terms of
synchronization overhead, and reactivation more expensive, because
reactivated pages will have to be reentered into the object's primary
splay tree and memq.

(2) Cached pages are now stored alongside free pages in the physical
memory allocator's buddy queues, increasing the likelihood that large
allocations of contiguous physical memory (i.e., superpages) will
succeed.

Finally, as a result of this change long-standing restrictions on when
and where a cached page can be reclaimed and returned by
vm_page_alloc(9) are eliminated.  Specifically, calls to
vm_page_alloc(9) specifying VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT can now reclaim and
return a formerly cached page.  Consequently, a call to malloc(9)
specifying M_NOWAIT is less likely to fail.

Discussed with: many over the course of the summer, including jeff@,
   Justin Husted @ Isilon, peter@, tegge@
Tested by: an earlier version by kris@
Approved by: re (kensmith)
2007-09-25 06:25:06 +00:00
Alan Cox
8941dc4471 Eliminate two unused functions: vm_phys_alloc_pages() and
vm_phys_free_pages().  Rename vm_phys_alloc_pages_locked() to
vm_phys_alloc_pages() and vm_phys_free_pages_locked() to
vm_phys_free_pages().  Add comments regarding the need for the free page
queues lock to be held by callers to these functions.  No functional
changes.

Approved by:	re (hrs)
2007-07-14 21:21:17 +00:00
Alan Cox
11752d88a2 Add a new physical memory allocator. However, do not yet connect it
to the build.

This allocator uses a binary buddy system with a twist.  First and
foremost, this allocator is required to support the implementation of
superpages.  As a side effect, it enables a more robust implementation
of contigmalloc(9).  Moreover, this reimplementation of
contigmalloc(9) eliminates the acquisition of Giant by
contigmalloc(..., M_NOWAIT, ...).

The twist is that this allocator tries to reduce the number of TLB
misses incurred by accesses through a direct map to small, UMA-managed
objects and page table pages.  Roughly speaking, the physical pages
that are allocated for such purposes are clustered together in the
physical address space.  The performance benefits vary.  In the most
extreme case, a uniprocessor kernel running on an Opteron, I measured
an 18% reduction in system time during a buildworld.

This allocator does not implement page coloring.  The reason is that
superpages have much the same effect.  The contiguous physical memory
allocation necessary for a superpage is inherently colored.

Finally, the one caveat is that this allocator does not effectively
support prezeroed pages.  I hope this is temporary.  On i386, this is
a slight pessimization.  However, on amd64, the beneficial effects of
the direct-map optimization outweigh the ill effects.  I speculate
that this is true in general of machines with a direct map.

Approved by:	re
2007-06-10 00:49:16 +00:00