the "disappearing subdisks" problem when new subdisks can't be created
due to some errors.
This is in fact an ugly hack, but a more elegant solution would probably
require a redesign of vinum in several places.
Approved by: joerg (mentor)
mindful of blocking on disk I/O and instead return EBUSY when such
blocking would occur.
Results from the DeBox project indicate that blocking on disk I/O
can slow the performance of a kqueue/poll based webserver. Using
a flag such as SF_NODISKIO and throwing connections that would block
to helper processes/threads helped increase performance.
Currently, only the Flash webserver uses this flag, although it could
probably be applied to thttpd with relative ease.
Idea by: Yaoping Ruan & Vivek Pai
nodes, or if they did, they're now locked away on the Kurt Gdel
memorial home for the numerically confused:
Don't cast a kernel pointer (from makedev(9)) to an integer (maj+minor combo).
on the card, unmap it first. This allows it to be picked up properly when
the queue gets kicked again. This was the root problem for the lost command
(i.e. stuck in getblk/vinvalb) problem. While here, panic if commands don't
map correctly instead of just silently ignoring the problem and dropping
command. Also slow down the dynamic allocation of new commands.
It should be safe to go back into the aac waters. Thanks to everyone who
suffered through this and provided good feedback.
802.11b chipset work. This chip is present on the SMC2602W version 3
NIC, which is what was used for testing. This driver creates kernel
threads (12 of them!) for various purposes, and required the following
routines:
PsCreateSystemThread()
PsTerminateSystemThread()
KeInitializeEvent()
KeSetEvent()
KeResetEvent()
KeInitializeMutex()
KeReleaseMutex()
KeWaitForSingleObject()
KeWaitForMultipleObjects()
IoGetDeviceProperty()
and several more. Also, this driver abuses the fact that NDIS events
and timers are actually Windows events and timers, and uses NDIS events
with KeWaitForSingleObject(). The NDIS event routines have been rewritten
to interface with the ntoskrnl module. Many routines with incorrect
prototypes have been cleaned up.
Also, this driver puts jobs on the NDIS taskqueue (via NdisScheduleWorkItem())
which block on events, and this interferes with the operation of
NdisMAllocateSharedMemoryAsync(), which was also being put on the
NDIS taskqueue. To avoid the deadlock, NdisMAllocateSharedMemoryAsync()
is now performed in the NDIS SWI thread instead.
There's still room for some cleanups here, and I really should implement
KeInitializeTimer() and friends.
seems to work well in RELENG_4. However, 5.X locking foo means that I'll
have to do some quick redesign.
Add ioctl handlers for ISP_GETROLE and ISP_SETROLE ioctls.
handling of resources shortages. The driver is now so fast that it can
completely fill all 512 slots on the card, but for some reason only 511
slots are being allocated. Anything that tries to go into the 512th
slot gets silently lost. Both bugs need to be fixed at a later date,
but this should fix the reports of hangs in getblk and vinvalb.
edge cases in the loop.
- Try to grab a command before dequeueing the bio from the bioq. The old
behaviour of requeuing deferred bios to the end of the bioq is arguably
wrong. This should be fixed in the future to check the bioq head without
automatically dequeueing the bio.
- do not use PROG for what's not a real C program,
- use sys.mk transformation rules where possible,
- only create the "machine" symlink on AMD64,
- removed MAINTAINER lines in individual makefiles,
- added the LIBSTAND defitinion to <bsd.libnames.mk>,
- somewhat better contents in .depend files.
Tested on: i386, amd64
Prodded by: bde
to catch are already nicely caught by trapping the null pointer derefs.
Remove no-longer-used noswitch/nothrow strings. They were referenced
by the stub cpu_switch() etc functions before they were implemented.
Try something a little different for the lock prefixes.
Prompted by: bde (the first two items anyway)
RLIM_INFINITY case for ogetrlimit().
- Use %jd and intmax_t to output negative time in usec in calcru().
- Rework getrusage() to make a copy of the rusage struct into a local
variable while holding Giant and then do the copyout from the local
variable to avoid having to have the original process rusage struct
locked while doing the copyout (which would not be safe). This also
includes a few style fixes from Bruce to getrusage().
Submitted by: bde (1, parts of 3)
Suggested by: bde (2)
