armv6 and armv7 systems already were 1000Hz. The other armv5 were a
mix of 100 and 1000. This changes them to 1000. Should there be
issues, we can add options HZ=100 to the systems that have bad
performance at the drop of a hat.
mips is a lot more complicated. But most of the systems are already
1000HZ. The hardware exceptions are all fast enough to run at
1000Hz. MALTA is our primary emulator, and history has shown emulators
tend to like 100Hz better, so run those systems at 100Hz. As with arm,
any system that shows a huge performance regression can reverted to
100Hz easily.
This was going to be committed well in advance of the 13 branch, but
it was delayed and forgotten til now.
Discussed on: #bsdmips ages ago
Sponsored by: Netflix
Replace MAXPHYS by runtime variable maxphys. It is initialized from
MAXPHYS by default, but can be also adjusted with the tunable kern.maxphys.
Make b_pages[] array in struct buf flexible. Size b_pages[] for buffer
cache buffers exactly to atop(maxbcachebuf) (currently it is sized to
atop(MAXPHYS)), and b_pages[] for pbufs is sized to atop(maxphys) + 1.
The +1 for pbufs allow several pbuf consumers, among them vmapbuf(),
to use unaligned buffers still sized to maxphys, esp. when such
buffers come from userspace (*). Overall, we save significant amount
of otherwise wasted memory in b_pages[] for buffer cache buffers,
while bumping MAXPHYS to desired high value.
Eliminate all direct uses of the MAXPHYS constant in kernel and driver
sources, except a place which initialize maxphys. Some random (and
arguably weird) uses of MAXPHYS, e.g. in linuxolator, are converted
straight. Some drivers, which use MAXPHYS to size embeded structures,
get private MAXPHYS-like constant; their convertion is out of scope
for this work.
Changes to cam/, dev/ahci, dev/ata, dev/mpr, dev/mpt, dev/mvs,
dev/siis, where either submitted by, or based on changes by mav.
Suggested by: mav (*)
Reviewed by: imp, mav, imp, mckusick, scottl (intermediate versions)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27225
r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.
This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.
Mark all obvious cases as MPSAFE. All entries that haven't been marked
as MPSAFE before are by default marked as NEEDGIANT
Approved by: kib (mentor, blanket)
Commented by: kib, gallatin, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23718
are able to determine some virtual machines, but the vm_guest variable was
still only being set to VM_GUEST_VM.
Since we do know what some of them specifically are, we can set vm_guest
appropriately.
Also, if we see the CPUID has the HV flag, but we were unable to find a
definitive vendor in the Hypervisor CPUID Information Leaf, fall back to
the older detection methods, as they may be able to determine a specific
HV type.
Add VM_GUEST_PARALLELS value to VM_GUEST for Parallels.
Approved by: cem
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20305
type, use a table to make it easier to add more in the future, if needed.
Add VirtualBox detection to the table ("VBoxVBoxVBox" is the hypervisor
vendor string to look for.) Also add VM_GUEST_VBOX to the VM_GUEST
enumeration to indicate VirtualBox.
Save the CPUID base for the hypervisor entry that we detected. Driver code
may need to know about it in order to obtain additional CPUID features.
Approved by: bryanv, jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16305
o In vm_pager_bufferinit() create pbuf_zone and start accounting on how many
pbufs are we going to have set.
In various subsystems that are going to utilize pbufs create private zones
via call to pbuf_zsecond_create(). The latter calls uma_zsecond_create(),
and sets a limit on created zone. After startup preallocate pbufs according
to requirements of all pbuf zones.
Subsystems that used to have a private limit with old allocator now have
private pbuf zones: md(4), fusefs, NFS client, smbfs, VFS cluster, FFS,
swap, vnode pager.
The following subsystems use shared pbuf zone: cam(4), nvme(4), physio(9),
aio(4). They should have their private limits, but changing that is out of
scope of this commit.
o Fetch tunable value of kern.nswbuf from init_param2() and while here move
NSWBUF_MIN to opt_param.h and eliminate opt_swap.h, that was holding only
this option.
Default values aren't touched by this commit, but they probably should be
reviewed wrt to modern hardware.
This change removes a tight bottleneck from sendfile(2) operation, that
uses pbufs in vnode pager. Other pagers also would benefit from faster
allocation.
Together with: gallatin
Tested by: pho
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
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.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
This avoids the time-warp after kthreads have started running and the
required fixup to td_slptick and td_blktick in the EARLY_AP_STARTUP
case. Now, 'ticks' is initialized before any kthreads are created or
any context switches are performed.
Tested by: gavin
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Netflix
Set vm_guest to a new enum value (VM_GUEST_KVM) when kvm is detected and use
vm_guest in conditionals testing for KVM.
Also, fix a conditional checking if we're running in a VM which caught only
the generic VM case, but not more specific VMs (KVM, VMWare, etc.). (Spotted
by: vangyzen).
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7172
Sponsored by: Dell Inc.
Approved by: kib (mentor), vangyzen (mentor)
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 4 weeks
Changes to kern.pid_max mib after the boot can break this relation.
The maxfiles value was calculated by the MAXFILES formula based on
maxproc value, but this change decouples them, and MAXFILES now
references maxusers. Without manual tuning, the maxfiles default
value remains as it was prior to this commit. But for systems which
have tuned maxproc and rely on maxfiles to adjust, additional
reconfiguration is needed.
Reported by: rwatson
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Auto-tuning threshold discussions aside, it turns out that if you want
to lower this on say, rather memory-packed machines, you either set maxusers
or kern.maxfiles, or you set it in sysctl. The former is a non-exact
way to tune this; the latter doesn't actually affect anything in the
startup scripts.
This first occured because I wondered why the hell screen would take upwards
of 10 seconds to spawn a new screen. I then found python doing the same
thing during fork/exec of child processes - it calls close() on each FD
up to the current openfiles limit. On a 1TB machine this is like, 26 million
FDs per process. Ugh.
So:
* This allows it to be set early in /boot/loader.conf;
* It can be used to work around the ridiculous situation of
screen, python, etc doing a close() on potentially millions of FDs
even though you only have four open.
Tested:
* 4GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 384GB, 1TB systems with autotune, ensuring
screen and python forking doesn't result in some pretty hilariously
bad behaviour.
TODO:
* Note that the default login.conf sets openfiles-cur to unlimited,
effectively obeying kern.maxfilesperproc. Perhaps we should fix
this.
* .. and even if we do, we need to also ensure that daemons get
a soft limit of something reasonable and capped - they can request
more FDs themselves.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
initial thread stack is not adjusted by the tunable, the stack is
allocated too early to get access to the kernel environment. See
TD0_KSTACK_PAGES for the thread0 stack sizing on i386.
The tunable was tested on x86 only. From the visual inspection, it
seems that it might work on arm and powerpc. The arm
USPACE_SVC_STACK_TOP and powerpc USPACE macros seems to be already
incorrect for the threads with non-default kstack size. I only
changed the macros to use variable instead of constant, since I cannot
test.
On arm64, mips and sparc64, some static data structures are sized by
KSTACK_PAGES, so the tunable is disabled.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 week
'buf' is inconvenient and has lead me to some irritating to discover
bugs over the years. It also makes it more challenging to refactor
the buf allocation system.
- Move swbuf and declare it as an extern in vfs_bio.c. This is still
not perfect but better than it was before.
- Eliminate the unused ffs function that relied on knowledge of the buf
array.
- Move the shutdown code that iterates over the buf array into vfs_bio.c.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
remains. Xen is planning to phase out support for PV upstream since it
is harder to maintain and has more overhead. Modern x86 CPUs include
virtualization extensions that support HVM guests instead of PV guests.
In addition, the PV code was i386 only and not as well maintained recently
as the HVM code.
- Remove the i386-only NATIVE option that was used to disable certain
components for PV kernels. These components are now standard as they
are on amd64.
- Remove !XENHVM bits from PV drivers.
- Remove various shims required for XEN (e.g. PT_UPDATES_FLUSH, LOAD_CR3,
etc.)
- Remove duplicate copy of <xen/features.h>.
- Remove unused, i386-only xenstored.h.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2362
Reviewed by: royger
Tested by: royger (i386/amd64 HVM domU and amd64 PVH dom0)
Relnotes: yes
- Move the existing code to x86/x86/identcpu.c since it is x86-specific.
- If the CPUID2_HV flag is set, assume a hypervisor is present and query
the 0x40000000 leaf to determine the hypervisor vendor ID. Export the
vendor ID and the highest supported hypervisor CPUID leaf via
hv_vendor[] and hv_high variables, respectively. The hv_vendor[]
array is also exported via the hw.hv_vendor sysctl.
- Merge the VMWare detection code from tsc.c into the new probe in
identcpu.c. Add a VM_GUEST_VMWARE to identify vmware and use that in
the TSC code to identify VMWare.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1010
Reviewed by: delphij, jkim, neel
in userland rename in-kernel getenv()/setenv() to kern_setenv()/kern_getenv().
This fixes a namespace collision with libc symbols.
Submitted by: kmacy
Tested by: make universe
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
This fixes fallout from r256425.
Reported by: Pavel Timofeev <timp87@gmail com>
Tested by: Pavel Timofeev <timp87@gmail com>
Reviewed by: Roger Pau Monnц╘
MFC after: 3 days
do not map the b_pages pages into buffer_map KVA. The use of the
unmapped buffers eliminate the need to perform TLB shootdown for
mapping on the buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the amount
of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30%
of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.
The unmapped buffer should be explicitely requested by the GB_UNMAPPED
flag by the consumer. For unmapped buffer, no KVA reservation is
performed at all. The consumer might request unmapped buffer which
does have a KVA reserve, to manually map it without recursing into
buffer cache and blocking, with the GB_KVAALLOC flag.
When the mapped buffer is requested and unmapped buffer already
exists, the cache performs an upgrade, possibly reusing the KVA
reservation.
Unmapped buffer is translated into unmapped bio in g_vfs_strategy().
Unmapped bio carry a pointer to the vm_page_t array, offset and length
instead of the data pointer. The provider which processes the bio
should explicitely specify a readiness to accept unmapped bio,
otherwise g_down geom thread performs the transient upgrade of the bio
request by mapping the pages into the new bio_transient_map KVA
submap.
The bio_transient_map submap claims up to 10% of the buffer map, and
the total buffer_map + bio_transient_map KVA usage stays the
same. Still, it could be manually tuned by kern.bio_transient_maxcnt
tunable, in the units of the transient mappings. Eventually, the
bio_transient_map could be removed after all geom classes and drivers
can accept unmapped i/o requests.
Unmapped support can be turned off by the vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed
tunable, disabling which makes the buffer (or cluster) creation
requests to ignore GB_UNMAPPED and GB_KVAALLOC flags. Unmapped
buffers are only enabled by default on the architectures where
pmap_copy_page() was implemented and tested.
In the rework, filesystem metadata is not the subject to maxbufspace
limit anymore. Since the metadata buffers are always mapped, the
buffers still have to fit into the buffer map, which provides a
reasonable (but practically unreachable) upper bound on it. The
non-metadata buffer allocations, both mapped and unmapped, is
accounted against maxbufspace, as before. Effectively, this means that
the maxbufspace is forced on mapped and unmapped buffers separately.
The pre-patch bufspace limiting code did not worked, because
buffer_map fragmentation does not allow the limit to be reached.
By Jeff Roberson request, the getnewbuf() function was split into
smaller single-purpose functions.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Discussed with: jeff (previous version)
Tested by: pho, scottl (previous version), jhb, bf
MFC after: 2 weeks
kern_timeout_callwheel_alloc() where it is actually used.
This is a mechanical move and no tuning parameters are changed.
The pre-allocated callout array is only used for legacy timeout(9)
calls and is only allocated and active on cpu0. Eventually all
remaining users of timeout(9) should switch to the callout_* API.
Reviewed by: davide
precise time event generation. This greatly improves granularity of
callouts which are not anymore constrained to wait next tick to be
scheduled.
- Extend the callout KPI introducing a set of callout_reset_sbt* functions,
which take a sbintime_t as timeout argument. The new KPI also offers a
way for consumers to specify precision tolerance they allow, so that
callout can coalesce events and reduce number of interrupts as well as
potentially avoid scheduling a SWI thread.
- Introduce support for dispatching callouts directly from hardware
interrupt context, specifying an additional flag. This feature should be
used carefully, as long as interrupt context has some limitations
(e.g. no sleeping locks can be held).
- Enhance mechanisms to gather informations about callwheel, introducing
a new sysctl to obtain stats.
This change breaks the KBI. struct callout fields has been changed, in
particular 'int ticks' (4 bytes) has been replaced with 'sbintime_t'
(8 bytes) and another 'sbintime_t' field was added for precision.
Together with: mav
Reviewed by: attilio, bde, luigi, phk
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by: flo (amd64, sparc64), marius (sparc64), ian (arm),
markj (amd64), mav, Fabian Keil
tunable_mbinit() where it is next to where it is used later.
Change the sysinit level of tunable_mbinit() from SI_SUB_TUNABLES
to SI_SUB_KMEM after the VM is running. This allows to use better
methods to determine the effectively available physical and virtual
memory available to the kernel.
Update comments.
In a second step it can be merged into mbuf_init().
When maxusers was unrestricted and maxfiles was allowed to autotune
much higher the result was that ncallout which was based on maxfiles
and maxproc grew much higher than was needed.
To fix this clip autotuning to the same number we would get with
the old maxusers algorithm which would stop scaling at 384
maxusers.
Growing ncalout higher is not likely to be needed since most consumers
of timeout(9) are gone and any higher value for ncallout causes the
callwheel hashes to be much larger than will even be needed for
most applications.
MFC after: 1 month
Reviewed by: mav
variable as they may overflow on i386/PAE and i386 with > 2GB RAM.
Use 64bit quad_t instead. It has broader kernel infrastructure support
with TUNABLE_QUAD_FETCH() and qmin/qmax() than other available types.
Pointed out by: alc, bde
kernel memory, whichever is lower. The overall mbuf related memory
limit must be set so that mbufs (and clusters of various sizes)
can't exhaust physical RAM or KVM.
The limit is set to half of the physical RAM or KVM (whichever is
lower) as the baseline. In any normal scenario we want to leave
at least half of the physmem/kvm for other kernel functions and
userspace to prevent it from swapping too easily. Via a tunable
kern.maxmbufmem the limit can be upped to at most 3/4 of physmem/kvm.
At the same time divorce maxfiles from maxusers and set maxfiles to
physpages / 8 with a floor based on maxusers. This way busy servers
can make use of the significantly increased mbuf limits with a much
larger number of open sockets.
Tidy up ordering in init_param2() and check up on some users of
those values calculated here.
Out of the overall mbuf memory limit 2K clusters and 4K (page size)
clusters to get 1/4 each because these are the most heavily used mbuf
sizes. 2K clusters are used for MTU 1500 ethernet inbound packets.
4K clusters are used whenever possible for sends on sockets and thus
outbound packets. The larger cluster sizes of 9K and 16K are limited
to 1/6 of the overall mbuf memory limit. When jumbo MTU's are used
these large clusters will end up only on the inbound path. They are
not used on outbound, there it's still 4K. Yes, that will stay that
way because otherwise we run into lots of complications in the
stack. And it really isn't a problem, so don't make a scene.
Normal mbufs (256B) weren't limited at all previously. This was
problematic as there are certain places in the kernel that on
allocation failure of clusters try to piece together their packet
from smaller mbufs.
The mbuf limit is the number of all other mbuf sizes together plus
some more to allow for standalone mbufs (ACK for example) and to
send off a copy of a cluster. Unfortunately there isn't a way to
set an overall limit for all mbuf memory together as UMA doesn't
support such a limiting.
NB: Every cluster also has an mbuf associated with it.
Two examples on the revised mbuf sizing limits:
1GB KVM:
512MB limit for mbufs
419,430 mbufs
65,536 2K mbuf clusters
32,768 4K mbuf clusters
9,709 9K mbuf clusters
5,461 16K mbuf clusters
16GB RAM:
8GB limit for mbufs
33,554,432 mbufs
1,048,576 2K mbuf clusters
524,288 4K mbuf clusters
155,344 9K mbuf clusters
87,381 16K mbuf clusters
These defaults should be sufficient for even the most demanding
network loads.
MFC after: 1 month
Some hooks are added to clamp down maxusers and nmbclusters for
small address space systems.
VM_MAX_AUTOTUNE_MAXUSERS - the max maxusers that will be autotuned based on
physical memory.
VM_MAX_AUTOTUNE_NMBCLUSTERS - max nmbclusters based on physical memory.
These are set to the old values on i386 to preserve the clamping that was
being done to all arches.
Another macro VM_AUTOTUNE_NMBCLUSTERS is provided to allow an override
for the calculation on a MD basis. Currently no arch defines this.
Reviewed by: peter
MFC after: 2 weeks
A default install on large memory machines with multiple 10gigE interfaces
were not being given enough mbufs to do full bandwidth TCP or NFS traffic.
To keep the value somewhat reasonable, we scale back the number of
maxuers by 1/6 past the 384 point. This gives us enough mbufs for most
of our pretty basic 10gigE line-speed tests to complete.
Also, express this new maximum as a fraction of the kernel's address
space size rather than a constant so that increasing KVA_PAGES will
automatically increase this maximum. As a side-effect of this change,
kern.maxvnodes will automatically increase by a proportional amount.
While I'm here ensure that this change doesn't result in an unintended
increase in maxpipekva on i386. Calculate maxpipekva based upon the
size of the kernel address space and the amount of physical memory
instead of the size of the kmem map. The memory backing pipes is not
allocated from the kmem map. It is allocated from its own submap of
the kernel map. In short, it has no real connection to the kmem map.
(In fact, the commit messages for the maxpipekva auto-sizing talk
about using the kernel map size, cf. r117325 and r117391, even though
the implementation actually used the kmem map size.) Although the
calculation is now done differently, the resulting value for
maxpipekva should remain almost the same on i386. However, on amd64,
the value will be reduced by 2/3. This is intentional. The recent
change to VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE on amd64 for the benefit of ZFS also had
the unnecessary side-effect of increasing maxpipekva. This change is
effectively restoring maxpipekva on amd64 to its prior value.
Eliminate init_param3() since it is no longer used.
the virtualization detection successfully disabling the clflush instruction.
This fixes insta-panics for XEN hvm users when the hw.clflush_disable
tunable is -1 or 0 (-1 by default).
Discussed with: jhb
