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Author SHA1 Message Date
John Dyson
96fb8cf258 Fix the shm panic. I mistakenly used the shadow_count to keep the object
from being split, and instead added an OBJ_NOSPLIT.
1998-05-04 17:12:53 +00:00
John Dyson
c0877f103f Tighten up management of memory and swap space during map allocation,
deallocation cycles.  This should provide a measurable improvement
on swap and memory allocation on loaded systems.  It is unlikely a
complete solution.  Also, provide more map info with procfs.
Chuck Cranor spurred on this improvement.
1998-04-29 04:28:22 +00:00
John Dyson
8f9110f6a1 This mega-commit is meant to fix numerous interrelated problems. There
has been some bitrot and incorrect assumptions in the vfs_bio code.  These
problems have manifest themselves worse on NFS type filesystems, but can
still affect local filesystems under certain circumstances.  Most of
the problems have involved mmap consistancy, and as a side-effect broke
the vfs.ioopt code.  This code might have been committed seperately, but
almost everything is interrelated.

1)	Allow (pmap_object_init_pt) prefaulting of buffer-busy pages that
	are fully valid.
2)	Rather than deactivating erroneously read initial (header) pages in
	kern_exec, we now free them.
3)	Fix the rundown of non-VMIO buffers that are in an inconsistent
	(missing vp) state.
4)	Fix the disassociation of pages from buffers in brelse.  The previous
	code had rotted and was faulty in a couple of important circumstances.
5)	Remove a gratuitious buffer wakeup in vfs_vmio_release.
6)	Remove a crufty and currently unused cluster mechanism for VBLK
	files in vfs_bio_awrite.  When the code is functional, I'll add back
	a cleaner version.
7)	The page busy count wakeups assocated with the buffer cache usage were
	incorrectly cleaned up in a previous commit by me.  Revert to the
	original, correct version, but with a cleaner implementation.
8)	The cluster read code now tries to keep data associated with buffers
	more aggressively (without breaking the heuristics) when it is presumed
	that the read data (buffers) will be soon needed.
9)	Change to filesystem lockmgr locks so that they use LK_NOPAUSE.  The
	delay loop waiting is not useful for filesystem locks, due to the
	length of the time intervals.
10)	Correct and clean-up spec_getpages.
11)	Implement a fully functional nfs_getpages, nfs_putpages.
12)	Fix nfs_write so that modifications are coherent with the NFS data on
	the server disk (at least as well as NFS seems to allow.)
13)	Properly support MS_INVALIDATE on NFS.
14)	Properly pass down MS_INVALIDATE to lower levels of the VM code from
	vm_map_clean.
15)	Better support the notion of pages being busy but valid, so that
	fewer in-transit waits occur.  (use p->busy more for pageouts instead
	of PG_BUSY.)  Since the page is fully valid, it is still usable for
	reads.
16)	It is possible (in error) for cached pages to be busy.  Make the
	page allocation code handle that case correctly.  (It should probably
	be a printf or panic, but I want the system to handle coding errors
	robustly.  I'll probably add a printf.)
17)	Correct the design and usage of vm_page_sleep.  It didn't handle
	consistancy problems very well, so make the design a little less
	lofty.  After vm_page_sleep, if it ever blocked, it is still important
	to relookup the page (if the object generation count changed), and
	verify it's status (always.)
18)	In vm_pageout.c, vm_pageout_clean had rotted, so clean that up.
19)	Push the page busy for writes and VM_PROT_READ into vm_pageout_flush.
20)	Fix vm_pager_put_pages and it's descendents to support an int flag
	instead of a boolean, so that we can pass down the invalidate bit.
1998-03-07 21:37:31 +00:00
John Dyson
660957521c Fix page prezeroing for SMP, and fix some potential paging-in-progress
hangs.  The paging-in-progress diagnosis was a result of Tor Egge's
excellent detective work.
Submitted by:	Partially from Tor Egge.
1998-02-25 03:56:15 +00:00
John Dyson
95461b450d 1) Start using a cleaner and more consistant page allocator instead
of the various ad-hoc schemes.
2)	When bringing in UPAGES, the pmap code needs to do another vm_page_lookup.
3)	When appropriate, set the PG_A or PG_M bits a-priori to both avoid some
	processor errata, and to minimize redundant processor updating of page
	tables.
4)	Modify pmap_protect so that it can only remove permissions (as it
	originally supported.)  The additional capability is not needed.
5)	Streamline read-only to read-write page mappings.
6)	For pmap_copy_page, don't enable write mapping for source page.
7)	Correct and clean-up pmap_incore.
8)	Cluster initial kern_exec pagin.
9)	Removal of some minor lint from kern_malloc.
10)	Correct some ioopt code.
11)	Remove some dead code from the MI swapout routine.
12)	Correct vm_object_deallocate (to remove backing_object ref.)
13)	Fix dead object handling, that had problems under heavy memory load.
14)	Add minor vm_page_lookup improvements.
15)	Some pages are not in objects, and make sure that the vm_page.c can
	properly support such pages.
16)	Add some more page deficit handling.
17)	Some minor code readability improvements.
1998-02-05 03:32:49 +00:00
John Dyson
eaf13dd73a Change the busy page mgmt, so that when pages are freed, they
MUST be PG_BUSY.  It is bogus to free a page that isn't busy,
because it is in a state of being "unavailable" when being
freed.  The additional advantage is that the page_remove code
has a better cross-check that the page should be busy and
unavailable for other use.  There were some minor problems
with the collapse code, and this plugs those subtile "holes."

Also, the vfs_bio code wasn't checking correctly for PG_BUSY
pages.  I am going to develop a more consistant scheme for
grabbing pages, busy or otherwise.  For now, we are stuck
with the current morass.
1998-01-31 11:56:53 +00:00
John Dyson
2d8acc0f4a VM level code cleanups.
1)	Start using TSM.
	Struct procs continue to point to upages structure, after being freed.
	Struct vmspace continues to point to pte object and kva space for kstack.
	u_map is now superfluous.
2)	vm_map's don't need to be reference counted.  They always exist either
	in the kernel or in a vmspace.  The vmspaces are managed by reference
	counts.
3)	Remove the "wired" vm_map nonsense.
4)	No need to keep a cache of kernel stack kva's.
5)	Get rid of strange looking ++var, and change to var++.
6)	Change more data structures to use our "zone" allocator.  Added
	struct proc, struct vmspace and struct vnode.  This saves a significant
	amount of kva space and physical memory.  Additionally, this enables
	TSM for the zone managed memory.
7)	Keep ioopt disabled for now.
8)	Remove the now bogus "single use" map concept.
9)	Use generation counts or id's for data structures residing in TSM, where
	it allows us to avoid unneeded restart overhead during traversals, where
	blocking might occur.
10)	Account better for memory deficits, so the pageout daemon will be able
	to make enough memory available (experimental.)
11)	Fix some vnode locking problems. (From Tor, I think.)
12)	Add a check in ufs_lookup, to avoid lots of unneeded calls to bcmp.
	(experimental.)
13)	Significantly shrink, cleanup, and make slightly faster the vm_fault.c
	code.  Use generation counts, get rid of unneded collpase operations,
	and clean up the cluster code.
14)	Make vm_zone more suitable for TSM.

This commit is partially as a result of discussions and contributions from
other people, including DG, Tor Egge, PHK, and probably others that I
have forgotten to attribute (so let me know, if I forgot.)

This is not the infamous, final cleanup of the vnode stuff, but a necessary
step.  Vnode mgmt should be correct, but things might still change, and
there is still some missing stuff (like ioopt, and physical backing of
non-merged cache files, debugging of layering concepts.)
1998-01-22 17:30:44 +00:00
John Dyson
4722175765 Tie up some loose ends in vnode/object management. Remove an unneeded
config option in pmap.  Fix a problem with faulting in pages.  Clean-up
some loose ends in swap pager memory management.

The system should be much more stable, but all subtile bugs aren't fixed yet.
1998-01-17 09:17:02 +00:00
John Dyson
95e5e988e0 Make our v_usecount vnode reference count work identically to the
original BSD code.  The association between the vnode and the vm_object
no longer includes reference counts.  The major difference is that
vm_object's are no longer freed gratuitiously from the vnode, and so
once an object is created for the vnode, it will last as long as the
vnode does.

When a vnode object reference count is incremented, then the underlying
vnode reference count is incremented also.  The two "objects" are now
more intimately related, and so the interactions are now much less
complex.

When vnodes are now normally placed onto the free queue with an object still
attached.  The rundown of the object happens at vnode rundown time, and
happens with exactly the same filesystem semantics of the original VFS
code.  There is absolutely no need for vnode_pager_uncache and other
travesties like that anymore.

A side-effect of these changes is that SMP locking should be much simpler,
the I/O copyin/copyout optimizations work, NFS should be more ponderable,
and further work on layered filesystems should be less frustrating, because
of the totally coherent management of the vnode objects and vnodes.

Please be careful with your system while running this code, but I would
greatly appreciate feedback as soon a reasonably possible.
1998-01-06 05:26:17 +00:00
John Dyson
2be70f79f6 Lots of improvements, including restructring the caching and management
of vnodes and objects.  There are some metadata performance improvements
that come along with this.  There are also a few prototypes added when
the need is noticed.  Changes include:

1) Cleaning up vref, vget.
2) Removal of the object cache.
3) Nuke vnode_pager_uncache and friends, because they aren't needed anymore.
4) Correct some missing LK_RETRY's in vn_lock.
5) Correct the page range in the code for msync.

Be gentle, and please give me feedback asap.
1997-12-29 00:25:11 +00:00
John Dyson
1efb74fbcc Some performance improvements, and code cleanups (including changing our
expensive OFF_TO_IDX to btoc whenever possible.)
1997-12-19 09:03:37 +00:00
John Dyson
99448ed11d Change the M_NAMEI allocations to use the zone allocator. This change
plus the previous changes to use the zone allocator decrease the useage
of malloc by half.  The Zone allocator will be upgradeable to be able
to use per CPU-pools, and has more intelligent usage of SPLs.  Additionally,
it has reasonable stats gathering capabilities, while making most calls
inline.
1997-09-21 04:24:27 +00:00
Bruce Evans
4de628dec4 Some staticized variables were still declared to be extern. 1997-09-01 02:55:50 +00:00
John Dyson
3075778b63 Get rid of the ad-hoc memory allocator for vm_map_entries, in lieu of
a simple, clean zone type allocator.  This new allocator will also be
used for machine dependent pmap PV entries.
1997-08-05 00:02:08 +00:00
Peter Wemm
6875d25465 Back out part 1 of the MCFH that changed $Id$ to $FreeBSD$. We are not
ready for it yet.
1997-02-22 09:48:43 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
1130b656e5 Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore.  This update would have been
insane otherwise.
1997-01-14 07:20:47 +00:00
John Dyson
ad98052216 Clean up the rundown of the object backing a vnode. This should fix
NFS problems associated with forcible dismounts.
1996-10-17 02:49:35 +00:00
Bruce Evans
aad9af2ba3 Removed nested include of <sys/proc.h> from <vm/vm_object.h> and fixed
the one place that depended on it.  wakeup() is now prototyped in
<sys/systm.h> so that it is normally visible.

Added nested include of <sys/queue.h> in <vm/vm_object.h>.  The queue
macros are a more fundamental prerequisite for <vm/vm_object.h> than
the wakeup prototype and previously happened to be included by
namespace pollution from <sys/proc.h> or elsewhere.
1996-10-15 18:24:34 +00:00
John Dyson
a2f4a84696 Reviewed by:
Submitted by:
Obtained from:
1996-09-28 03:33:40 +00:00
John Dyson
5070c7f8c5 Addition of page coloring support. Various levels of coloring are afforded.
The default level works with minimal overhead, but one can also enable
full, efficient use of a 512K cache.  (Parameters can be generated
to support arbitrary cache sizes also.)
1996-09-08 20:44:49 +00:00
John Dyson
6476c0d204 Even though this looks like it, this is not a complex code change.
The interface into the "VMIO" system has changed to be more consistant
and robust.  Essentially, it is now no longer necessary to call vn_open
to get merged VM/Buffer cache operation, and exceptional conditions
such as merged operation of VBLK devices is simpler and more correct.

This code corrects a potentially large set of problems including the
problems with ktrace output and loaded systems, file create/deletes,
etc.

Most of the changes to NFS are cosmetic and name changes, eliminating
a layer of subroutine calls.  The direct calls to vput/vrele have
been re-instituted for better cross platform compatibility.

Reviewed by: davidg
1996-08-21 21:56:23 +00:00
John Dyson
867a482d66 Initial support for mincore and madvise. Both are almost fully
supported, except madvise does not page in with MADV_WILLNEED, and
MADV_DONTNEED doesn't force dirty pages out.
1996-05-19 07:36:50 +00:00
John Dyson
de5f6a7765 1) Eliminate unnecessary bzero of UPAGES.
2) Eliminate unnecessary copying of pages during/after forks.
3) Add user map simplification.
1996-03-02 02:54:24 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
f708ef1b9e Another mega commit to staticize things. 1995-12-14 09:55:16 +00:00
John Dyson
a316d390bd Changes to support 1Tb filesizes. Pages are now named by an
(object,index) pair instead of (object,offset) pair.
1995-12-11 04:58:34 +00:00
David Greenman
efeaf95a41 Untangled the vm.h include file spaghetti. 1995-12-07 12:48:31 +00:00
John Dyson
aef922f514 Greatly simplify the msync code. Eliminate complications in vm_pageout
for msyncing.  Remove a bug that manifests itself primarily on NFS
(the dirty range on the buffers is not set on msync.)
1995-11-05 20:46:03 +00:00
Bruce Evans
187f023877 Change vm_object_print() to have the correct number and type of args
for a ddb command.
1995-08-26 23:19:49 +00:00
Bruce Evans
28f8db1403 Eliminate sloppy common-style declarations. There should be none left for
the LINT configuation.
1995-07-29 11:44:31 +00:00
David Greenman
2a4895f4bb 1) Merged swpager structure into vm_object.
2) Changed swap_pager internal interfaces to cope w/#1.
3) Eliminated object->copy as we no longer have copy objects.
4) Minor stylistic changes.
1995-07-16 13:28:37 +00:00
David Greenman
24a1cce34f NOTE: libkvm, w, ps, 'top', and any other utility which depends on struct
proc or any VM system structure will have to be rebuilt!!!

Much needed overhaul of the VM system. Included in this first round of
changes:

1) Improved pager interfaces: init, alloc, dealloc, getpages, putpages,
   haspage, and sync operations are supported. The haspage interface now
   provides information about clusterability. All pager routines now take
   struct vm_object's instead of "pagers".

2) Improved data structures. In the previous paradigm, there is constant
   confusion caused by pagers being both a data structure ("allocate a
   pager") and a collection of routines. The idea of a pager structure has
   escentially been eliminated. Objects now have types, and this type is
   used to index the appropriate pager. In most cases, items in the pager
   structure were duplicated in the object data structure and thus were
   unnecessary. In the few cases that remained, a un_pager structure union
   was created in the object to contain these items.

3) Because of the cleanup of #1 & #2, a lot of unnecessary layering can now
   be removed. For instance, vm_object_enter(), vm_object_lookup(),
   vm_object_remove(), and the associated object hash list were some of the
   things that were removed.

4) simple_lock's removed. Discussion with several people reveals that the
   SMP locking primitives used in the VM system aren't likely the mechanism
   that we'll be adopting. Even if it were, the locking that was in the code
   was very inadequate and would have to be mostly re-done anyway. The
   locking in a uni-processor kernel was a no-op but went a long way toward
   making the code difficult to read and debug.

5) Places that attempted to kludge-up the fact that we don't have kernel
   thread support have been fixed to reflect the reality that we are really
   dealing with processes, not threads. The VM system didn't have complete
   thread support, so the comments and mis-named routines were just wrong.
   We now use tsleep and wakeup directly in the lock routines, for instance.

6) Where appropriate, the pagers have been improved, especially in the
   pager_alloc routines. Most of the pager_allocs have been rewritten and
   are now faster and easier to maintain.

7) The pagedaemon pageout clustering algorithm has been rewritten and
   now tries harder to output an even number of pages before and after
   the requested page. This is sort of the reverse of the ideal pagein
   algorithm and should provide better overall performance.

8) Unnecessary (incorrect) casts to caddr_t in calls to tsleep & wakeup
   have been removed. Some other unnecessary casts have also been removed.

9) Some almost useless debugging code removed.

10) Terminology of shadow objects vs. backing objects straightened out.
    The fact that the vm_object data structure escentially had this
    backwards really confused things. The use of "shadow" and "backing
    object" throughout the code is now internally consistent and correct
    in the Mach terminology.

11) Several minor bug fixes, including one in the vm daemon that caused
    0 RSS objects to not get purged as intended.

12) A "default pager" has now been created which cleans up the transition
    of objects to the "swap" type. The previous checks throughout the code
    for swp->pg_data != NULL were really ugly. This change also provides
    the rudiments for future backing of "anonymous" memory by something
    other than the swap pager (via the vnode pager, for example), and it
    allows the decision about which of these pagers to use to be made
    dynamically (although will need some additional decision code to do
    this, of course).

13) (dyson) MAP_COPY has been deprecated and the corresponding "copy
    object" code has been removed. MAP_COPY was undocumented and non-
    standard. It was furthermore broken in several ways which caused its
    behavior to degrade to MAP_PRIVATE. Binaries that use MAP_COPY will
    continue to work correctly, but via the slightly different semantics
    of MAP_PRIVATE.

14) (dyson) Sharing maps have been removed. It's marginal usefulness in a
    threads design can be worked around in other ways. Both #12 and #13
    were done to simplify the code and improve readability and maintain-
    ability. (As were most all of these changes)

TODO:

1) Rewrite most of the vnode pager to use VOP_GETPAGES/PUTPAGES. Doing
   this will reduce the vnode pager to a mere fraction of its current size.

2) Rewrite vm_fault and the swap/vnode pagers to use the clustering
   information provided by the new haspage pager interface. This will
   substantially reduce the overhead by eliminating a large number of
   VOP_BMAP() calls. The VOP_BMAP() filesystem interface should be
   improved to provide both a "behind" and "ahead" indication of
   contiguousness.

3) Implement the extended features of pager_haspage in swap_pager_haspage().
   It currently just says 0 pages ahead/behind.

4) Re-implement the swap device (swstrategy) in a more elegant way, perhaps
   via a much more general mechanism that could also be used for disk
   striping of regular filesystems.

5) Do something to improve the architecture of vm_object_collapse(). The
   fact that it makes calls into the swap pager and knows too much about
   how the swap pager operates really bothers me. It also doesn't allow
   for collapsing of non-swap pager objects ("unnamed" objects backed by
   other pagers).
1995-07-13 08:48:48 +00:00
David Greenman
f325917a65 Changed object hash list to be a list rather than a tailq. This saves
space for the hash list buckets and is a little faster. The features
of tailq aren't needed. Increased the size of the object hash table
to improve performance. In the future, this will be changed so that
the table is sized dynamically.
1995-05-02 05:57:11 +00:00
David Greenman
f6b04d2bfb Changes from John Dyson and myself:
Fixed remaining known bugs in the buffer IO and VM system.

vfs_bio.c:
Fixed some race conditions and locking bugs. Improved performance
by removing some (now) unnecessary code and fixing some broken
logic.
Fixed process accounting of # of FS outputs.
Properly handle NFS interrupts (B_EINTR).

(various)
Replaced calls to clrbuf() with calls to an optimized routine
called vfs_bio_clrbuf().

(various FS sync)
Sync out modified vnode_pager backed pages.

ffs_vnops.c:
Do two passes: Sync out file data first, then indirect blocks.

vm_fault.c:
Fixed deadly embrace caused by acquiring locks in the wrong order.

vnode_pager.c:
Changed to use buffer I/O system for writing out modified pages. This
should fix the problem with the modification date previous not getting
updated. Also dramatically simplifies the code. Note that this is
going to change in the future and be implemented via VOP_PUTPAGES().

vm_object.c:
Fixed a pile of bugs related to cleaning (vnode) objects. The performance
of vm_object_page_clean() is terrible when dealing with huge objects,
but this will change when we implement a binary tree to keep the object
pages sorted.

vm_pageout.c:
Fixed broken clustering of pageouts. Fixed race conditions and other
lockup style bugs in the scanning of pages. Improved performance.
1995-04-09 06:03:56 +00:00
David Greenman
f5cf85d40a Removed unused fifth argument to vm_object_page_clean(). Fixed bug with
VTEXT not always getting cleared when it is supposed to. Added check to
make sure that vm_object_remove() isn't called with a NULL pager or for
a pager for an OBJ_INTERNAL object (neither of which will be on the hash
list). Clear OBJ_CANPERSIST if we decide to terminate it because of no
resident pages.
1995-03-22 12:24:11 +00:00
David Greenman
7c1f6cedec Added a new boolean argument to vm_object_page_clean that causes it to
only toss out clean pages if TRUE.
1995-03-21 01:11:44 +00:00
David Greenman
9ba0a56334 Fixed "objde1" hang. It was caused by a "&" where an "&&" belonged in the
expression that decides if a wakeup should occur.
1995-03-20 10:14:55 +00:00
Bruce Evans
b5e8ce9f12 Add and move declarations to fix all of the warnings from `gcc -Wimplicit'
(except in netccitt, netiso and netns) and most of the warnings from
`gcc -Wnested-externs'.  Fix all the bugs found.  There were no serious
ones.
1995-03-16 18:17:34 +00:00
Bruce Evans
1475d9283e Move a kernel inline function inside `#ifdef KERNEL' so that including
<vm/vm.h> doesn't cause warnings about nonexistent functions called
by the inline function.  Clean up the formatting of the function.
1995-03-12 12:42:00 +00:00
David Greenman
6879ca0fcd Deleted vm_object_setpager(). 1995-03-12 08:05:46 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
7b936a1e66 Remove a gratutious cast. 1995-03-04 21:14:19 +00:00
David Greenman
f919ebde54 Various changes from John and myself that do the following:
New functions create - vm_object_pip_wakeup and pagedaemon_wakeup that
are used to reduce the actual number of wakeups.
New function vm_page_protect which is used in conjuction with some new
page flags to reduce the number of calls to pmap_page_protect.
Minor changes to reduce unnecessary spl nesting.
Rewrote vm_page_alloc() to improve readability.
Various other mostly cosmetic changes.
1995-03-01 23:30:04 +00:00
David Greenman
26f5e3ab12 Removed object locking code (it was a left over from an abortion that
was done a month or so ago).

Submitted by:	John Dyson
1995-02-22 10:06:43 +00:00
David Greenman
c0503609a0 Only do object paging_in_progress wakeups if someone is waiting on this
condition.

Submitted by:	John Dyson
1995-02-22 09:15:35 +00:00
David Greenman
a1f6d91cc2 swap_pager.c:
Fixed long standing bug in freeing swap space during object collapses.
Fixed 'out of space' messages from printing out too often.
Modified to use new kmem_malloc() calling convention.
Implemented an additional stat in the swap pager struct to count the
amount of space allocated to that pager. This may be removed at some
point in the future.
Minimized unnecessary wakeups.

vm_fault.c:
Don't try to collect fault stats on 'swapped' processes - there aren't
any upages to store the stats in.
Changed read-ahead policy (again!).

vm_glue.c:
Be sure to gain a reference to the process's map before swapping.
Be sure to lose it when done.

kern_malloc.c:
Added the ability to specify if allocations are at interrupt time or
are 'safe'; this affects what types of pages can be allocated.

vm_map.c:
Fixed a variety of map lock problems; there's still a lurking bug that
will eventually bite.

vm_object.c:
Explicitly initialize the object fields rather than bzeroing the struct.
Eliminated the 'rcollapse' code and folded it's functionality into the
"real" collapse routine.
Moved an object_unlock() so that the backing_object is protected in
the qcollapse routine.
Make sure nobody fools with the backing_object when we're destroying it.
Added some diagnostic code which can be called from the debugger that
looks through all the internal objects and makes certain that they
all belong to someone.

vm_page.c:
Fixed a rather serious logic bug that would result in random system
crashes. Changed pagedaemon wakeup policy (again!).

vm_pageout.c:
Removed unnecessary page rotations on the inactive queue.
Changed the number of pages to explicitly free to just free_reserved
level.

Submitted by:	John Dyson
1995-02-02 09:09:15 +00:00
David Greenman
6d40c3d394 Added ability to detect sequential faults and DTRT. (swap_pager.c)
Added hook for pmap_prefault() and use symbolic constant for new third
argument to vm_page_alloc() (vm_fault.c, various)
Changed the way that upages and page tables are held. (vm_glue.c)
Fixed architectural flaw in allocating pages at interrupt time that was
introduced with the merged cache changes. (vm_page.c, various)
Adjusted some algorithms to acheive better paging performance and to
accomodate the fix for the architectural flaw mentioned above. (vm_pageout.c)
Fixed pbuf handling problem, changed policy on handling read-behind page.
(vnode_pager.c)

Submitted by:	John Dyson
1995-01-24 10:14:09 +00:00
David Greenman
0d94caffca These changes embody the support of the fully coherent merged VM buffer cache,
much higher filesystem I/O performance, and much better paging performance. It
represents the culmination of over 6 months of R&D.

The majority of the merged VM/cache work is by John Dyson.

The following highlights the most significant changes. Additionally, there are
(mostly minor) changes to the various filesystem modules (nfs, msdosfs, etc) to
support the new VM/buffer scheme.

vfs_bio.c:
Significant rewrite of most of vfs_bio to support the merged VM buffer cache
scheme.  The scheme is almost fully compatible with the old filesystem
interface.  Significant improvement in the number of opportunities for write
clustering.

vfs_cluster.c, vfs_subr.c
Upgrade and performance enhancements in vfs layer code to support merged
VM/buffer cache.  Fixup of vfs_cluster to eliminate the bogus pagemove stuff.

vm_object.c:
Yet more improvements in the collapse code.  Elimination of some windows that
can cause list corruption.

vm_pageout.c:
Fixed it, it really works better now.  Somehow in 2.0, some "enhancements"
broke the code.  This code has been reworked from the ground-up.

vm_fault.c, vm_page.c, pmap.c, vm_object.c
Support for small-block filesystems with merged VM/buffer cache scheme.

pmap.c vm_map.c
Dynamic kernel VM size, now we dont have to pre-allocate excessive numbers of
kernel PTs.

vm_glue.c
Much simpler and more effective swapping code.  No more gratuitous swapping.

proc.h
Fixed the problem that the p_lock flag was not being cleared on a fork.

swap_pager.c, vnode_pager.c
Removal of old vfs_bio cruft to support the past pseudo-coherency.  Now the
code doesn't need it anymore.

machdep.c
Changes to better support the parameter values for the merged VM/buffer cache
scheme.

machdep.c, kern_exec.c, vm_glue.c
Implemented a seperate submap for temporary exec string space and another one
to contain process upages. This eliminates all map fragmentation problems
that previously existed.

ffs_inode.c, ufs_inode.c, ufs_readwrite.c
Changes for merged VM/buffer cache.  Add "bypass" support for sneaking in on
busy buffers.

Submitted by:	John Dyson and David Greenman
1995-01-09 16:06:02 +00:00
David Greenman
2fe6e4d71e Added support for starting the experimental "vmdaemon" system process.
Enabled via REL2_1.

Added support for doing object collapses "on the fly". Enabled via REL2_1a.

Improved object collapses so that they can happen in more cases. Improved
sensing of modified pages to fix an apparant race condition and improve
clustered pageout opportunities. Fixed an "oops" with not restarting page
scan after a potential block in vm_pageout_clean() (not doing this can result
in strange behavior in some cases).

Submitted by:	John Dyson & David Greenman
1994-11-06 05:07:53 +00:00
David Greenman
3c4dd3568f Added $Id$ 1994-08-02 07:55:43 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
df8bae1de4 BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources 1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00