by hacking on locked buffers without getblk()ing them, and we didn't
even use splbio() to prevent biodone() changing the buffer underneath
use when a write completes. I think there was no problem in practice
on i386's because the operations on b_flags and numdirtybufs happen to
be atomic. We still depend on biodone()'s operations on b_flags not
interfering with ours. I think there is only interference for B_ERROR,
and this is harmless because errors for async writes are ignored anyway.
Don't use mark_buffer_dirty() except for superblock-related metadata.
It was used in just one case where ordinary BSD buffering is more
natural.
to not using splbio(), and has rotted a little. The races were
probably harmless in practice because this function was only used
for superblock updates, and separate superblock updates are probably
prevented from running into each other by doing part of the update
synchronously.
keep ahold of buffers, and therefore leave filesystems dirty. I haven't
been able to test, but the code compiles. Those who run -current, please
test and report back!!! (Sorry :-)).
PR: kern/3571
Submitted by: Dirk Keunecke <dk@panda.rhein-main.de>
cause a problem of spiraling death due to buffer resource limitations.
The vfs_bio code in general had little ability to handle buffer resource
management, and now it does. Also, there are a lot more knobs for tuning the
vfs_bio code now. The knobs came free because of the need that there
always be some immediately available buffers (non-delayed or locked) for
use. Note that the buffer cache code is much less likely to get bogged
down with lots of delayed writes, even more so than before.
Included <sys/vnode.h> and its prerequisite <sys/proc.h>, and cleaned
up includes. The vop_t changes made the non-inclusion of vnode.h
fatal instead of just sloppy.
i386_bitops.h:
Changed `extern inline' to `static inline'. `extern inline' is a
Linuxism that stops things from compiling without -O. Fixed
idempotency identifier.
Misc:
Added prototypes. Staticized some functions so that prototypes are
unnecessary. Added casts. Cleaned up includes.
file for GPL restrictions. This code was ported to the BSD platform
by Godmar Back <gback@facility.cs.utah.edu> and specifically to FreeBSD
by John Dyson. This code is still green and should be used with caution.
Additional changes to UFS necessary to make this code work will be commited
seperately.
Submitted by: Godmar Back <gback@facility.cs.utah.edu>
Obtained from: Lites/Mach4
