Summary:
Open file list is currently created as statically allocated array (64 items).
Once this array is filled up, loader will not be able to operate with files.
In most cases, this mechanism is good enough, but the problem appears, when
we have many disks with zfs pool(s). In current loader implementation, all
discovered zfs pool configurations are kept in memory and disk devices open -
consuming the open file array. Rewrite the open file mechanism to use
dynamically allocated list.
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31364
In my initial testing, these are the functions which showed up as
being worth instrumenting. More may be added later.
common/console.c: cons_probe
common/gfx_fb.c: read_list, insert_font, autoload_font
common/interp.c: interact
common/interp_lua.c: interp_init, interp_run
efi/libefi/efipart.c: efipart_readwrite
i386/libi386/biosdisk.c: bd_init, bd_open, bd_edd_io, bd_chs_io, bd_io
libsa/open.c: open
libsa/read.c: read
libsa/twiddle.c: twiddle
Note that profiling interp_run may be of questionable utility as it
may depend on user behaviour (e.g. pressing keys).
Reviewed by: kevans (earlier version)
