The ability to schedule multiple threads per process
(one one cpu) by making ALL system calls optionally asynchronous.
to come: ia64 and power-pc patches, patches for gdb, test program (in tools)
Reviewed by: Almost everyone who counts
(at various times, peter, jhb, matt, alfred, mini, bernd,
and a cast of thousands)
NOTE: this is still Beta code, and contains lots of debugging stuff.
expect slight instability in signals..
allocated slabs and bucket caches for free items. It will not go ask the vm
for pages. This differs from M_NOWAIT in that it not only doesn't block, it
doesn't even ask.
- Add a new zcreate option ZONE_VM, that sets the BUCKETCACHE zflag. This
tells uma that it should only allocate buckets out of the bucket cache, and
not from the VM. It does this by using the M_NOVM option to zalloc when
getting a new bucket. This is so that the VM doesn't recursively enter
itself while trying to allocate buckets for vm_map_entry zones. If there
are already allocated buckets when we get here we'll still use them but
otherwise we'll skip it.
- Use the ZONE_VM flag on vm map entries and pv entries on x86.
mutex class. Currently this is only used for kmapentzone because kmapents
are are potentially allocated when freeing memory. This is not dangerous
though because no other allocations will be done while holding the
kmapentzone lock.
Fortunately we have no large zones with maximums specified yet, so it wasn't
breaking anything.
Implement blocking when a zone exceeds the maximum and M_WAITOK is specified.
Previously this just failed like the old zone allocator did. The old zone
allocator didn't support WAITOK/NOWAIT though so we should do what we
advertise.
While I was in there I cleaned up some more zalloc logic to further simplify
that code path and reduce redundant code. This was needed to make the blocking
work properly anyway.
never held across blocking operations. Also, fix two other lock order
reversals that were exposed by jhb's witness change.
The free path previously had a bug that would cause it to skip the free bucket
list in some cases and go straight to allocating a new bucket. This has been
fixed as well.
These changes made the bucket handling code much cleaner and removed quite a
few lock operations. This should be marginally faster now.
It is now possible to call malloc w/o Giant and avoid any witness warnings.
This still isn't entirely safe though because malloc_type statistics are not
protected by any lock.
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
with this flag. Remove the dup_list and dup_ok code from subr_witness. Now
we just check for the flag instead of doing string compares.
Also, switch the process lock, process group lock, and uma per cpu locks over
to this interface. The original mechanism did not work well for uma because
per cpu lock names are unique to each zone.
Approved by: jhb
