striping to a per device round-robin algorithm.
Because of the policy of not attempting to retain previous swap
allocation on page-out, this means that a newly added swap device
almost instantly takes its 1/N share of the I/O load but it takes
somewhat longer for it to assume it's 1/N share of the pages if there
is plenty of space on the other devices.
Change the 8G total swapspace limitation to 8G per device instead
by using a per device blist rather than one global blist. This
reduces the memory footprint by 75% (typically a couple hundred
kilobytes) for the common case with one swapdevice but NSWAPDEV=4.
Remove the compile time constant limit of number of swap devices,
there is no limit now. Instead of a fixed size array, store the
per swapdev structure in a TAILQ.
Total swap space is still addressed by a 32 bit page number and
therefore the upper limit is now 2^42 bytes = 16TB (for i386).
We still do not allocate the first page of each device in order to
give some amount of protection to any bsdlabel at the start of the
device.
A new device is appended after the existing devices in the swap space,
no attempt is made to fill in holes left behind by swapoff (this can
trivially be changed should it ever become a problem).
The sysctl vm.nswapdev now reflects the number of currently configured
swap devices.
Rename vm_swap_size to swap_pager_avail for consistency with other
exported names.
Change argument type for vm_proc_swapin_all() and swap_pager_isswapped()
to be a struct swdevt pointer rather than an index.
Not changed: we are still using blists to manage the free space,
but since the swapspace is no longer fragmented by the striping
different resource managers might fare better.
- Change vm_pageout_object_deactivate_pages()'s first parameter from a
vm_map_t to a pmap_t.
- Change vm_pageout_object_deactivate_pages()'s and
vm_pageout_map_deactivate_pages()'s last parameter from a vm_pindex_t
to a long. Since the number of pages in an address space doesn't
require 64 bits on an i386, vm_pindex_t is overkill.
processes in the first pass. Among other things, this will give
us a chance to launder vnode-backed pages before concluding that
we need more swap. This is particularly useful for systems that
have no swap.
While here, update a comment and remove some long-unused code.
Reported by: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Suggested by: dillon
Approved by: re (rwatson)
- Add a parameter to vm_pageout_flush() that tells vm_pageout_flush()
whether its caller has locked the vm_object. (This is a temporary
measure to bootstrap vm_object locking.)
critical and should not be killed when pageout is looking for more
memory pages in all the wrong places.
Reviewed by: arch@
Sponsored by: St. Bernard Software
process to kill, don't block on a map lock while holding the
process lock. Instead, skip processes whose map locks are held
and find something else to kill.
- Add vm_map_trylock_read() to support the above.
Reviewed by: alc, mike (mentor)
intended to be used by significant memory consumers so that they may drain
some of their caches.
Inspired by: phk
Approved by: re
Tested on: x86, alpha
to reflect its new location, and add page queue and flag locking.
Notes: (1) alpha, i386, and ia64 had identical implementations
of pmap_collect() in terms of machine-independent interfaces;
(2) sparc64 doesn't require it; (3) powerpc had it as a TODO.
indirectly through vm_page_protect(). The one remaining page flag that
is updated by vm_page_protect() is already being updated by our various
pmap implementations.
Note: A later commit will similarly change the VM_PROT_READ case and
eliminate vm_page_protect().
- Begin moving scheduler specific functionality into sched_4bsd.c
- Replace direct manipulation of scheduler data with hooks provided by the
new api.
- Remove KSE specific state modifications and single runq assumptions from
kern_switch.c
Reviewed by: -arch
constants VM_MIN_ADDRESS, VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS, USRSTACK and PS_STRINGS.
This is mainly so that they can be variable even for the native abi, based
on different machine types. Get stack protections from the sysentvec too.
This makes it trivial to map the stack non-executable for certain abis, on
machines that support it.
The ability to schedule multiple threads per process
(one one cpu) by making ALL system calls optionally asynchronous.
to come: ia64 and power-pc patches, patches for gdb, test program (in tools)
Reviewed by: Almost everyone who counts
(at various times, peter, jhb, matt, alfred, mini, bernd,
and a cast of thousands)
NOTE: this is still Beta code, and contains lots of debugging stuff.
expect slight instability in signals..
best path forward now is likely to change the lockmgr locks to simple
sleep mutexes, then see if any extra contention it generates is greater
than removed overhead of managing local locking state information,
cost of extra calls into lockmgr, etc.
Additionally, making the vm_map lock a mutex and respecting it properly
will put us much closer to not needing Giant magic in vm.
While doing this, move it earlier in the sysinit boot process so that the
VM system can use it.
After that, the system is now able to use sx locks instead of lockmgr
locks in the VM system. To accomplish this, some of the more
questionable uses of the locks (such as testing whether they are
owned or not, as well as allowing shared+exclusive recursion) are
removed, and simpler logic throughout is used so locks should also be
easier to understand.
This has been tested on my laptop for months, and has not shown any
problems on SMP systems, either, so appears quite safe. One more
user of lockmgr down, many more to go :)
