o Introduce a notion of "not ready" mbufs in socket buffers. These
mbufs are now being populated by some I/O in background and are
referenced outside. This forces following implications:
- An mbuf which is "not ready" can't be taken out of the buffer.
- An mbuf that is behind a "not ready" in the queue neither.
- If sockbet buffer is flushed, then "not ready" mbufs shouln't be
freed.
o In struct sockbuf the sb_cc field is split into sb_ccc and sb_acc.
The sb_ccc stands for ""claimed character count", or "committed
character count". And the sb_acc is "available character count".
Consumers of socket buffer API shouldn't already access them directly,
but use sbused() and sbavail() respectively.
o Not ready mbufs are marked with M_NOTREADY, and ready but blocked ones
with M_BLOCKED.
o New field sb_fnrdy points to the first not ready mbuf, to avoid linear
search.
o New function sbready() is provided to activate certain amount of mbufs
in a socket buffer.
A special note on SCTP:
SCTP has its own sockbufs. Unfortunately, FreeBSD stack doesn't yet
allow protocol specific sockbufs. Thus, SCTP does some hacks to make
itself compatible with FreeBSD: it manages sockbufs on its own, but keeps
sb_cc updated to inform the stack of amount of data in them. The new
notion of "not ready" data isn't supported by SCTP. Instead, only a
mechanical substitute is done: s/sb_cc/sb_ccc/.
A proper solution would be to take away struct sockbuf from struct
socket and allow protocols to implement their own socket buffers, like
SCTP already does. This was discussed with rrs@.
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of relying on the tvtohz() workaround. The latter has been introduced
lately by jhb@ (r254699) in order to have a fix that can be backported
to STABLE.
Reported by: Vitja Makarov <vitja.makarov at gmail dot com>
Reviewed by: jhb (earlier version)
on each socket buffer with the socket buffer's mutex. This sleep lock is
used to serialize I/O on sockets in order to prevent I/O interlacing.
This change replaces the custom sleep lock with an sx(9) lock, which
results in marginally better performance, better handling of contention
during simultaneous socket I/O across multiple threads, and a cleaner
separation between the different layers of locking in socket buffers.
Specifically, the socket buffer mutex is now solely responsible for
serializing simultaneous operation on the socket buffer data structure,
and not for I/O serialization.
While here, fix two historic bugs:
(1) a bug allowing I/O to be occasionally interlaced during long I/O
operations (discovere by Isilon).
(2) a bug in which failed non-blocking acquisition of the socket buffer
I/O serialization lock might be ignored (discovered by sam).
SCTP portion of this patch submitted by rrs.
