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Jason Evans
dd85920a4f Add the VFS_AIO config option and leave it off by default. Unless the
VFS_AIO option is specified, all aio-related syscalls return ENOSYS.

The aio code is very fragile right now, and is unsuitable for default
inclusion in a production shell box.

Approved by:	jkh
2000-02-23 07:44:25 +00:00
Jason Evans
b7592c7bea Back out the previous spl change, since it opens a race window.
Reviewed by:	alfred, dillon, peter
2000-01-20 08:15:13 +00:00
Jason Evans
60ffb01993 Don't tsleep() while at splbio().
Correctly return EINPROGRESS from aio_error() even when an aio request
is still in the socket queue.

Submitted by:	Adrian Chadd <adrian@bofh.co.uk>
2000-01-20 01:59:58 +00:00
Brian Feldman
f582ac0630 Fix vn_isdisk() usage to make AIO work on non-disk-files again, rather
than just return ENOTBLK.

PR:	16163
Submitted by:	Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
2000-01-17 21:18:39 +00:00
Jason Evans
bfbbc4aa44 Add aio_waitcomplete(). Make aio work correctly for socket descriptors.
Make gratuitous style(9) fixes (me, not the submitter) to make the aio
code more readable.

PR:		kern/12053
Submitted by:	Chris Sedore <cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu>
2000-01-14 02:53:29 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
ba4ad1fcea Give vn_isdisk() a second argument where it can return a suitable errno.
Suggested by:	bde
2000-01-10 12:04:27 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
38224dcd59 Convert various pieces of code to use vn_isdisk() rather than checking
for vp->v_type == VBLK.

In ccd: we don't need to call VOP_GETATTR to find the type of a vnode.

Reviewed by:    sos
1999-11-22 10:33:55 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
008626c39e Simplify and de-bogotify check for raw disk. 1999-11-07 13:09:09 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
02c58685a4 Change useracc() and kernacc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE|EXECUTE} for the
"rw" argument, rather than hijacking B_{READ|WRITE}.

Fix two bugs (physio & cam) resulting by the confusion caused by this.

Submitted by:   Tor.Egge@fast.no
Reviewed by:    alc, ken (partly)
1999-10-30 06:32:05 +00:00
Peter Wemm
d1f088dab5 Trim unused options (or #ifdef for undoc options).
Submitted by:	phk
1999-10-11 15:19:12 +00:00
Brian Feldman
13ccadd4b0 This is what was "fdfix2.patch," a fix for fd sharing. It's pretty
far-reaching in fd-land, so you'll want to consult the code for
changes.  The biggest change is that now, you don't use
	fp->f_ops->fo_foo(fp, bar)
but instead
	fo_foo(fp, bar),
which increments and decrements the fp refcount upon entry and exit.
Two new calls, fhold() and fdrop(), are provided.  Each does what it
seems like it should, and if fdrop() brings the refcount to zero, the
fd is freed as well.

Thanks to peter ("to hell with it, it looks ok to me.") for his review.
Thanks to msmith for keeping me from putting locks everywhere :)

Reviewed by:	peter
1999-09-19 17:00:25 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
49ff4debd3 Spring cleaning around strategy and disklabels/slices:
Introduce BUF_STRATEGY(struct buf *, int flag) macro, and use it throughout.
please see comment in sys/conf.h about the flag argument.

Remove strategy argument from all the diskslice/label/bad144
implementations, it should be found from the dev_t.

Remove bogus and unused strategy1 routines.

Remove open/close arguments from dssize().  Pick them up from dev_t.

Remove unused and unfinished setgeom support from diskslice/label/bad144 code.
1999-08-14 11:40:51 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
4d4f932326 s/v_specinfo/v_rdev/ 1999-08-13 10:10:12 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
0ef1c82630 Decommision miscfs/specfs/specdev.h. Most of it goes into <sys/conf.h>,
a few lines into <sys/vnode.h>.

Add a few fields to struct specinfo, paving the way for the fun part.
1999-08-08 18:43:05 +00:00
Peter Wemm
9c8b8baa38 Slight reorganization of kernel thread/process creation. Instead of using
SYSINIT_KT() etc (which is a static, compile-time procedure), use a
NetBSD-style kthread_create() interface.  kproc_start is still available
as a SYSINIT() hook.  This allowed simplification of chunks of the
sysinit code in the process.  This kthread_create() is our old kproc_start
internals, with the SYSINIT_KT fork hooks grafted in and tweaked to work
the same as the NetBSD one.

One thing I'd like to do shortly is get rid of nfsiod as a user initiated
process.  It makes sense for the nfs client code to create them on the
fly as needed up to a user settable limit.  This means that nfsiod
doesn't need to be in /sbin and is always "available".  This is a fair bit
easier to do outside of the SYSINIT_KT() framework.
1999-07-01 13:21:46 +00:00
Peter Wemm
df8abd0bb9 Slight tweak to fork1() calling conventions. Add a third argument so
the caller can easily find the child proc struct.  fork(), rfork() etc
syscalls set p->p_retval[] themselves.  Simplify the SYSINIT_KT() code
and other kernel thread creators to not need to use pfind() to find the
child based on the pid.  While here, partly tidy up some of the fork1()
code for RF_SIGSHARE etc.
1999-06-30 15:33:41 +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
Poul-Henning Kamp
6fcd8a7c93 Introduce the makebdev() function, it does the same as the makedev()
function for now, but that will change.
1999-06-01 18:56:26 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
0a346dab99 major(something) can never become NODEV. 1999-05-09 13:13:52 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
4be2eb8c49 I got tired of seeing all the cdevsw[major(foo)] all over the place.
Made a new (inline) function devsw(dev_t dev) and substituted it.

Changed to the BDEV variant to this format as well: bdevsw(dev_t dev)

DEVFS will eventually benefit from this change too.
1999-05-08 06:40:31 +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
Peter Wemm
d5558c001a Fix up a few easy 'assignment used as truth value' and 'suggest parens
around && within ||' type warnings.  I'm pretty sure I have not masked
any problems here, I've committed real problem fixes seperately.
1999-05-06 18:44:42 +00:00
Luoqi Chen
5206bca10a Enable vmspace sharing on SMP. Major changes are,
- %fs register is added to trapframe and saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit.
- Per-cpu pages are no longer mapped at the same virtual address.
- Each cpu now has a separate gdt selector table. A new segment selector
  is added to point to per-cpu pages, per-cpu global variables are now
  accessed through this new selector (%fs). The selectors in gdt table are
  rearranged for cache line optimization.
- fask_vfork is now on as default for both UP and SMP.
- Some aio code cleanup.

Reviewed by:	Alan Cox	<alc@cs.rice.edu>
		John Dyson	<dyson@iquest.net>
		Julian Elischer	<julian@whistel.com>
		Bruce Evans	<bde@zeta.org.au>
		David Greenman	<dg@root.com>
1999-04-28 01:04:33 +00:00
Dmitrij Tejblum
8fe387ab84 Add standard padding argument to pread and pwrite syscall. That should make them
NetBSD compatible.

Add parameter to fo_read and fo_write. (The only flag FOF_OFFSET mean that
the offset is set in the struct uio).

Factor out some common code from read/pread/write/pwrite syscalls.
1999-04-04 21:41:28 +00:00
Bruce Evans
a5c9bce777 Added a used #include (don't depend on "vnode_if.h" including <sys/buf.h>). 1999-02-25 15:54:06 +00:00
Luoqi Chen
b1028ad122 Hide access to vmspace:vm_pmap with inline function vmspace_pmap(). This
is the preparation step for moving pmap storage out of vmspace proper.

Reviewed by:	Alan Cox	<alc@cs.rice.edu>
		Matthew Dillion	<dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
1999-02-19 14:25:37 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
bc81493155 More const fixes for -Wall, -Wcast-qual 1999-01-29 23:18:50 +00:00
Bruce Evans
9e26dd2a54 Removed bogus casts to c_caddr_t. This is part of terminating
c_caddr_t with extreme prejudice.  Here the original casts to
caddr_t were to support K&R compilers (or missing prototypes),
but the relevant source files require an ANSI compiler.
1999-01-29 08:29:05 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
697457a133 Fix warnings related to -Wall -Wcast-qual 1999-01-28 17:32:05 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
8aef171243 Fix warnings in preparation for adding -Wall -Wcast-qual to the
kernel compile
1999-01-28 00:57:57 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
d254af07a1 Fix warnings in preparation for adding -Wall -Wcast-qual to the
kernel compile
1999-01-27 21:50:00 +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
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
e3b3ba2d79 Wrap two macros into do { ... } while (0), and fix the way they're used
in the kernel.

Reviewed by: bde
1998-12-15 17:38:33 +00:00
Tor Egge
18830dba83 Don't forget to update the pmap associated with aio daemons when adding
new page directory entries for a growing kernel virtual address space.
1998-11-27 01:14:21 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
f5ef029e92 Nitpicking and dusting performed on a train. Removes trivial warnings
about unused variables, labels and other lint.
1998-10-25 17:44:59 +00:00
Bruce Evans
2d2f8ae7ad Fixed nonsense overflow checking (checking that a long variable is less
than INT_MAX after it has possibly overflowed).

Removed an unused variable and its associated 2 style bugs.

Removed unused includes.
1998-08-17 17:28:10 +00:00
Bruce Evans
30166fabb6 Cast between longs and pointers via intptr_t. There shouldn't be
nearly so many casts here.  Casting an pointer that was an integer
back to an integer just to compare it with -1 is bad, and casting
it back just to compare it with NULL is just wrong.
1998-07-15 06:51:14 +00:00
Julian Elischer
596f8506ad fix braino from yesterdays' megacommit
Not sure of the result of it..
(may or may not effect anything) but it's fixed now.
(found by: comparing what cvsup sent back to me with what I tested..)
1998-07-05 20:33:18 +00:00
Julian Elischer
f7ea2f55d1 There is no such thing any more as "struct bdevsw".
There is only cdevsw (which should be renamed in a later edit to deventry
or something). cdevsw contains the union of what were in both bdevsw an
cdevsw entries.  The bdevsw[] table stiff exists and is a second pointer
to the cdevsw entry of the device. it's major is in d_bmaj rather than
d_maj. some cleanup still to happen (e.g. dsopen now gets two pointers
to the same cdevsw struct instead of one to a bdevsw and one to a cdevsw).

rawread()/rawwrite() went away as part of this though it's not strictly
the same  patch, just that it involves all the same lines in the drivers.

cdroms no longer have write() entries (they did have rawwrite (?)).
tapes no longer have support for bdev operations.

Reviewed by: Eivind Eklund and Mike Smith
	Changes suggested by eivind.
1998-07-04 22:30:26 +00:00
Doug Rabson
8c12612cf6 64bit fixes: don't cast pointers to int. 1998-06-10 10:31:08 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
dc73342347 Seventy-odd "its" / "it's" typos in comments fixed as per kern/6108. 1998-04-17 22:37:19 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
227ee8a188 Eradicate the variable "time" from the kernel, using various measures.
"time" wasn't a atomic variable, so splfoo() protection were needed
around any access to it, unless you just wanted the seconds part.

Most uses of time.tv_sec now uses the new variable time_second instead.

gettime() changed to getmicrotime(0.

Remove a couple of unneeded splfoo() protections, the new getmicrotime()
is atomic, (until Bruce sets a breakpoint in it).

A couple of places needed random data, so use read_random() instead
of mucking about with time which isn't random.

Add a new nfs_curusec() function.

Mark a couple of bogosities involving the now disappeard time variable.

Update ffs_update() to avoid the weird "== &time" checks, by fixing the
one remaining call that passwd &time as args.

Change profiling in ncr.c to use ticks instead of time.  Resolution is
the same.

Add new function "tvtohz()" to avoid the bogus "splfoo(), add time, call
hzto() which subtracts time" sequences.

Reviewed by:	bde
1998-03-30 09:56:58 +00:00
Peter Dufault
8a6472b723 Finish _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING. Needs P1003_1B and
_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options to work.  Changes:

Change all "posix4" to "p1003_1b".  Misnamed files are left
as "posix4" until I'm told if I can simply delete them and add
new ones;

Add _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls for FreeBSD and Linux;

Add man pages for _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls;

Add options to LINT;

Minor fixes to P1003_1B code during testing.
1998-03-28 11:51:01 +00:00
Bruce Evans
08637435f2 Moved some #includes from <sys/param.h> nearer to where they are actually
used.
1998-03-28 10:33:27 +00:00
Bruce Evans
57518a4e83 Removed a stale comment and staler code. 1998-02-25 06:30:15 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
303b270b0a Staticize. 1998-02-09 06:11:36 +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
John Dyson
648899413d Quiet some lint. 1997-12-10 04:14:23 +00:00
John Dyson
78922e413c Correct prototypes to match POSIX. Correct return code for aio_cancel.
Submitted by:	Alex Nash <nash@mcs.com>
1997-12-08 02:18:25 +00:00
John Dyson
e499ed6f86 Fix a problem when creating a new kernel thread. In some cases, aio_read
or aio_write can return the pid of the new thread.  This is due to the
way that return values from system calls being passed by side-effect in
the proc structure now.  This commit fixes the problem with aio_read and
aio_write.
1997-12-01 18:41:08 +00:00
John Dyson
11783b142b Fix error handling for VCHR type I/O. Also, fix another spl problem, and
remove alot of overly verbose debugging statements.
ioproclist {
	int aioprocflags;			/* AIO proc flags */
	TAILQ_ENTRY(aioproclist) list;		/* List of processes */
	struct proc *aioproc;			/* The AIO thread */
	TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist) jobtorun;	/* suggested job to run */
};

/*
 * data-structure for lio signal management
 */
struct aio_liojob {
	int lioj_flags;
	int	lioj_buffer_count;
	int	lioj_buffer_finished_count;
	int	lioj_queue_count;
	int	lioj_queue_finished_count;
	struct sigevent lioj_signal;	/* signal on all I/O done */
	TAILQ_ENTRY (aio_liojob) lioj_list;
	struct kaioinfo *lioj_ki;
};
#define	LIOJ_SIGNAL			0x1 /* signal on all done (lio) */
#define	LIOJ_SIGNAL_POSTED	0x2	/* signal has been posted */

/*
 * per process aio data structure
 */
struct kaioinfo {
	int	kaio_flags;			/* per process kaio flags */
	int	kaio_maxactive_count;	/* maximum number of AIOs */
	int	kaio_active_count;	/* number of currently used AIOs */
	int	kaio_qallowed_count;	/* maxiumu size of AIO queue */
	int	kaio_queue_count;	/* size of AIO queue */
	int	kaio_ballowed_count;	/* maximum number of buffers */
	int	kaio_queue_finished_count;	/* number of daemon jobs finished */
	int	kaio_buffer_count;	/* number of physio buffers */
	int	kaio_buffer_finished_count;	/* count of I/O done */
	struct proc *kaio_p;			/* process that uses this kaio block */
	TAILQ_HEAD (,aio_liojob) kaio_liojoblist;	/* list of lio jobs */
	TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist)	kaio_jobqueue;	/* job queue for process */
	TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist)	kaio_jobdone;	/* done queue for process */
	TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist)	kaio_bufqueue;	/* buffer job queue for process */
	TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist)	kaio_bufdone;	/* buffer done queue for process */
};

#define KAIO_RUNDOWN 0x1		/* process is being run down */
#define KAIO_WAKEUP 0x2			/* wakeup process when there is a significant
								   event */


TAILQ_HEAD (,aioproclist) aio_freeproc, aio_activeproc;
TAILQ_HEAD(,aiocblist) aio_jobs;			/* Async job list */
TAILQ_HEAD(,aiocblist) aio_bufjobs;			/* Phys I/O job list */
TAILQ_HEAD(,aiocblist) aio_freejobs;		/* Pool of free jobs */

static void aio_init_aioinfo(struct proc *p) ;
static void aio_onceonly(void *) ;
static int aio_free_entry(struct aiocblist *aiocbe);
static void aio_process(struct aiocblist *aiocbe);
static int aio_newproc(void) ;
static int aio_aqueue(struct proc *p, struct aiocb *job, int type) ;
static void aio_physwakeup(struct buf *bp);
static int aio_fphysio(struct proc *p, struct aiocblist *aiocbe, int type);
static int aio_qphysio(struct proc *p, struct aiocblist *iocb);
static void aio_daemon(void *uproc);

SYSINIT(aio, SI_SUB_VFS, SI_ORDER_ANY, aio_onceonly, NULL);

static vm_zone_t kaio_zone=0, aiop_zone=0,
	aiocb_zone=0, aiol_zone=0, aiolio_zone=0;

/*
 * Single AIOD vmspace shared amongst all of them
 */
static struct vmspace *aiovmspace = NULL;

/*
 * Startup initialization
 */
void
aio_onceonly(void *na)
{
	TAILQ_INIT(&aio_freeproc);
	TAILQ_INIT(&aio_activeproc);
	TAILQ_INIT(&aio_jobs);
	TAILQ_INIT(&aio_bufjobs);
	TAILQ_INIT(&aio_freejobs);
	kaio_zone = zinit("AIO", sizeof (struct kaioinfo), 0, 0, 1);
	aiop_zone = zinit("AIOP", sizeof (struct aioproclist), 0, 0, 1);
	aiocb_zone = zinit("AIOCB", sizeof (struct aiocblist), 0, 0, 1);
	aiol_zone = zinit("AIOL", AIO_LISTIO_MAX * sizeof (int), 0, 0, 1);
	aiolio_zone = zinit("AIOLIO",
		AIO_LISTIO_MAX * sizeof (struct aio_liojob), 0, 0, 1);
	aiod_timeout = AIOD_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT;
	aiod_lifetime = AIOD_LIFETIME_DEFAULT;
	jobrefid = 1;
}

/*
 * Init the per-process aioinfo structure.
 * The aioinfo limits are set per-process for user limit (resource) management.
 */
void
aio_init_aioinfo(struct proc *p)
{
	struct kaioinfo *ki;
	if (p->p_aioinfo == NULL) {
		ki = zalloc(kaio_zone);
		p->p_aioinfo = ki
1997-12-01 07:01:45 +00:00
John Dyson
f4f0ecefab Correct a last minute code change. Would have been an infinite loop under
certain error conditions.
Submitted by:	pst@shockwave.com
1997-11-30 23:21:08 +00:00
John Dyson
c5efdcbdec Fix an spl nit. 1997-11-30 21:47:36 +00:00
John Dyson
84af4da65a Finish up the vast majority of the AIO/LIO functionality. Proper signal
support was missing in the previous version of the AIO code.  More
tunables added, and very efficient support for VCHR files has been added.
Kernel threads are not used for VCHR files, all work for such files is
done for the requesting process directly.  Some attempt has been made to
charge the requesting process for resource utilization, but more work
is needed.  aio_fsync is still missing (but the original fsync system
call can be used for now.)  aio_cancel is essentially a noop, but that
is okay per POSIX.  More aio_cancel functionality can be added later,
if it is found to be needed.

The functions implemented include:
	aio_read, aio_write, lio_listio, aio_error, aio_return,
	aio_cancel, aio_suspend.

The code has been implemented to support the POSIX spec 1003.1b
(formerly known as POSIX 1003.4 spec) features of the above.  The
async I/O features are truly async, with the VCHR mode of operation
being essentially the same as physio (for appropriate files) for
maximum efficiency.  This code also supports the signal capability,
is highly tunable, allowing management of resource usage, and
has been written to allow a per process usage quota.

Both the O'Reilly POSIX.4 book and the actual POSIX 1003.1b document
were the reference specs used.  Any filedescriptor can be used with
these new system calls.  I know of no exceptions where these
system calls will not work.  (TTY's will also probably work.)
1997-11-30 04:36:31 +00:00
John Dyson
f4feb04e1f Disable the VCHR optimization for AIO until I have implemented it. Just in
case anyone wants to play with the POSIX AIO/LIO stuff.  (As it is, it should
work with ANY vnode, on UP systems only, for now.)
1997-11-29 02:57:46 +00:00
John Dyson
fd3bf77574 Fix and complete the AIO syscalls. There are some performance enhancements
coming up soon, but the code is functional.  Docs will be forthcoming.
1997-11-29 01:33:10 +00:00
Bruce Evans
fdebd4f0fd Get locking stuff by #including <sys/lock.h> instead of <sys/vnode.h>. 1997-11-18 10:02:40 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
4a11ca4e29 Remove a bunch of variables which were unused both in GENERIC and LINT.
Found by:	-Wunused
1997-11-07 08:53:44 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
cb226aaa62 Move the "retval" (3rd) parameter from all syscall functions and put
it in struct proc instead.

This fixes a boatload of compiler warning, and removes a lot of cruft
from the sources.

I have not removed the /*ARGSUSED*/, they will require some looking at.

libkvm, ps and other userland struct proc frobbing programs will need
recompiled.
1997-11-06 19:29:57 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
a1c995b626 Last major round (Unless Bruce thinks of somthing :-) of malloc changes.
Distribute all but the most fundamental malloc types.  This time I also
remembered the trick to making things static:  Put "static" in front of
them.

A couple of finer points by:	bde
1997-10-12 20:26:33 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
55166637cd Distribute and statizice a lot of the malloc M_* types.
Substantial input from:	bde
1997-10-11 18:31:40 +00:00
John Dyson
c486068695 Make the target for the number of AIO daemons work. 1997-10-11 01:07:03 +00:00
John Dyson
a624e84fff Major cleanup and debugging of the new AIO/LIO code. The LIO code is
now corrected.  New tunables/instrumentation added.  The code is now
likely "good enough to use."  I will add the userland support soon.
The "high performance" mode for raw devices is still missing, and will
be added next.  POSIX system calls that now appear to work:
aio_cancel, aio_error, aio_read, aio_return, aio_suspend, aio_write,
lio_listio.  Missing, but to be added soon: aio_fsync.
1997-10-09 04:14:41 +00:00
Bruce Evans
e4ba6a82b0 Removed unused #includes. 1997-09-02 20:06:59 +00:00
John Dyson
5aaef07c50 Clean up some lint associated with the AIO code. 1997-07-17 04:49:43 +00:00
John Dyson
2244ea07dc This is an upgrade so that the kernel supports the AIO calls from
POSIX.4.  Additionally, there is some initial code that supports LIO.
This code supports AIO/LIO for all types of file descriptors, with
few if any restrictions.  There will be a followup very soon that
will support significantly more efficient operation for VCHR type
files (raw.)  This code is also dependent on some kernel features
that don't work under SMP yet.  After I commit the changes to the
kernel to support proper address space sharing on SMP, this code
will also work under SMP.
1997-07-06 02:40:43 +00:00
John Dyson
ee877a356c Add initial AIO/LIO kernel thread support files. This is preliminary, and
further features will be added.
1997-06-16 00:27:26 +00:00