processes running as root to suspend/resume execution
of the kernel nfsd threads. An earlier version of this
patch was tested by Vincent Hoffman (vince at unsane.co.uk)
and John Hickey (jh at deterlab.net).
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
it run out of multiple concurrent contexts.
Right now the ath(4) TX processing is a bit hairy. Specifically:
* It was running out of ath_start(), which could occur from multiple
concurrent sending processes (as if_start() can be started from multiple
sending threads nowdays.. sigh)
* during RX if fast frames are enabled (so not really at the moment, not
until I fix this particular feature again..)
* during ath_reset() - so anything which calls that
* during ath_tx_proc*() in the ath taskqueue - ie, TX is attempted again
after TX completion, as there's now hopefully some ath_bufs available.
* Then, the ic_raw_xmit() method can queue raw frames for transmission
at any time, from any net80211 TX context. Ew.
This has caused packet ordering issues in the past - specifically,
there's absolutely no guarantee that preemption won't occuring _during_
ath_start() by the TX completion processing, which will call ath_start()
again. It's a mess - 802.11 really, really wants things to be in
sequence or things go all kinds of loopy.
So:
* create a new task struct for TX'ing;
* make the if_start method simply queue the task on the ath taskqueue;
* make ath_start() just be called by the new TX task;
* make ath_tx_kick() just schedule the ath TX task, rather than directly
calling ath_start().
Now yes, this means that I've taken a step backwards in terms of
concurrency - TX -and- RX now occur in the same single-task taskqueue.
But there's nothing stopping me from separating out the TX / TX completion
code into a separate taskqueue which runs in parallel with the RX path,
if that ends up being appropriate for some platforms.
This fixes the CCMP/seqno concurrency issues that creep up when you
transmit large amounts of uni-directional UDP traffic (>200MBit) on a
FreeBSD STA -> AP, as now there's only one TX context no matter what's
going on (TX completion->retry/software queue,
userland->net80211->ath_start(), TX completion -> ath_start());
but it won't fix any concurrency issues between raw transmitted frames
and non-raw transmitted frames (eg EAPOL frames on TID 16 and any other
TID 16 multicast traffic that gets put on the CABQ.) That is going to
require a bunch more re-architecture before it's feasible to fix.
In any case, this is a big step towards making the majority of the TX
path locking irrelevant, as now almost all TX activity occurs in the
taskqueue.
Phew.
Right now processing a full 512 frame queue takes quite a while (measured
on the order of milliseconds.) Because of this, the TX processing ends up
sometimes preempting the taskqueue:
* userland sends a frame
* it goes in through net80211 and out to ath_start()
* ath_start() will end up either direct dispatching or software queuing a
frame.
If TX had to wait for RX to finish, it would add quite a few ms of
additional latency to the packet transmission. This in the past has
caused issues with TCP throughput.
Now, as part of my attempt to bring sanity to the TX/RX paths, the first
step is to make the RX processing happen in smaller 'parts'. That way
when TX is pushed into the ath taskqueue, there won't be so much latency
in the way of things.
The bigger scale change (which will come much later) is to actually
process the frames in the ath_intr taskqueue but process _frames_ in
the ath driver taskqueue. That would reduce the latency between
processing and requeuing new descriptors. But that'll come later.
The actual work:
* Add ATH_RX_MAX at 128 (static for now);
* break out of the processing loop if npkts reaches ATH_RX_MAX;
* if we processed ATH_RX_MAX or more frames during the processing loop,
immediately reschedule another RX taskqueue run. This will handle
the further frames in the taskqueue.
This should have very minimal impact on the general throughput case,
unless the scheduler is being very very strange or the ath taskqueue
ends up spending a lot of time on non-RX operations (such as TX
completion.)
counter, without actually allocating the vnodes. The supposed use of
the getnewvnode_reserve(9) is to reclaim enough free vnodes while the
code still does not hold any resources that might be needed during the
reclamation, and to consume the slack later for getnewvnode() calls
made from the innards. After the critical block is finished, the
caller shall free any reserve left, by getnewvnode_drop_reserve(9).
Reviewed by: avg
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
and Sierra Wireless MC8790V. Also implement the .ucom_poll method.
Note: This makes it possible to use lqr/echo in ppp.conf. And it
resolves ppp hanging during the PPp> phase.
Reviewed by: hps
MFC after: 1 week
AMD BKDG for CPU families 10h and later requires that the memory
mapped config is always read into or written from al/ax/eax register.
Discussed with: kib, alc
Reviewed by: kib (earlier version)
MFC after: 25 days
System time is set later on boot process then initial bus scan by CAM.
Until that moment microtime() is equal to microuptime(), and if system
boots quickly, the value can be close to zero. That causes settle time
waiting even for buses that don't use reset during probe.
On my test system this reduces boot time by 1 second if USB enabled, or
by 4 seconds if USB disabled. CAM waited for ctl2cam0 bus "settle".
"boot verbose", "single user mode", "ACPI" and more are now stateful boolean
menuitems rather than direct action-items.
A short-coming in this new menu system is that when a user sets a non-default
value in loader.conf(5), this non-default state is not reflected in the menu
-- leading to confusion as to whether the option was taking effect or not.
This patch adds dynamic menuitem constructors _and_ the necessary Forth
callbacks to initialize these stateful menuitems -- causing the aforementioned
menuitems to adhere to loader.conf(5) settings.
PR: bin/172529
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)
MFC after: 21 days
This has been developed during 2 summer of code mandates and being revived
by gnn recently.
The functionality in this commit mirrors entirely content of fusefs-kmod
port, which doesn't need to be installed anymore for -CURRENT setups.
In order to get some sparse technical notes, please refer to:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-March/013876.html
or to the project branch:
svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/fuse/
which also contains granular history of changes happened during port
refinements. This commit does not came from the branch reintegration
itself because it seems svn is not behaving properly for this functionaly
at the moment.
Partly Sponsored by: Google, Summer of Code program 2005, 2011
Originally submitted by: ilya, Csaba Henk <csaba-ml AT creo DOT hu >
In collabouration with: pho
Tested by: flo, gnn, Gustau Perez,
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman AT gmail DOT com>
MFC after: 2 months
table and the requirement on trailing zero bits.
* Remove the __aligned() compiler directives as these were found
to have a negative effect on the produced code.
Submitted by: bde
Approved by: das (mentor)
vm_page_sleep(). vm_page_sleep() is no longer called with this lock
held.
Eliminate assertions that the page queues lock is NOT held. These
assertions won't translate well to having distinct locks on the active
and inactive page queues, and they really aren't that useful.
MFC after: 3 weeks
- Extend the lock to cover xpt_path_release() for the new path.
- While xpt_action() is called while holding right SIM lock for the new
bus, the old path release may require different SIM lock. So we have
to temporary drop the new lock and get the old one.
without holding SIM lock. It really doesn't need that lock, but adding it
removes that specific exception, allowing to assert locking there later.
Submitted by: ken@ (earlier version)
