- provide an interface (macros) to the page coloring part of the VM system,
this allows to try different coloring algorithms without the need to
touch every file [1]
- make the page queue tuning values readable: sysctl vm.stats.pagequeue
- autotuning of the page coloring values based upon the cache size instead
of options in the kernel config (disabling of the page coloring as a
kernel option is still possible)
MD changes:
- detection of the cache size: only IA32 and AMD64 (untested) contains
cache size detection code, every other arch just comes with a dummy
function (this results in the use of default values like it was the
case without the autotuning of the page coloring)
- print some more info on Intel CPU's (like we do on AMD and Transmeta
CPU's)
Note to AMD owners (IA32 and AMD64): please run "sysctl vm.stats.pagequeue"
and report if the cache* values are zero (= bug in the cache detection code)
or not.
Based upon work by: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> [1]
Reviewed by: alc, arch (in 2004)
Discussed with: alc, Chad David, arch (in 2004)
reclamation synchronously from get_pv_entry() instead of
asynchronously as part of the page daemon. Additionally, limit the
reclamation to inactive pages unless allocation from the PV entry zone
or reclamation from the inactive queue fails. Previously, reclamation
destroyed mappings to both inactive and active pages. get_pv_entry()
still, however, wakes up the page daemon when reclamation occurs. The
reason being that the page daemon may move some pages from the active
queue to the inactive queue, making some new pages available to future
reclamations.
Print the "reclaiming PV entries" message at most once per minute, but
don't stop printing it after the fifth time. This way, we do not give
the impression that the problem has gone away.
Reviewed by: tegge
due to the vm object being locked.
When a process writes large amounts of data to a file, the vm object associated
with that file can contain most of the physical pages on the machine. If the
process is preempted while holding the lock on the vm object, pagedaemon would
be able to move very few pages from PQ_INACTIVE to PQ_CACHE or from PQ_ACTIVE
to PQ_INACTIVE, resulting in unlimited cleaning of dirty pages belonging to
other vm objects.
Temporarily unlock the page queues lock while locking vm objects to avoid lock
order violation. Detect and handle relevant page queue changes.
This change depends on both the lock portion of struct vm_object and normal
struct vm_page being type stable.
Reviewed by: alc
queue to the free queue. With this change, if a page from the cache
queue belongs to a locked object, it is simply skipped over rather
than moved to the inactive queue.
need for most calls to vm_page_busy(). Specifically, most calls to
vm_page_busy() occur immediately prior to a call to vm_page_remove().
In such cases, the containing vm object is locked across both calls.
Consequently, the setting of the vm page's PG_BUSY flag is not even
visible to other threads that are following the synchronization
protocol.
This change (1) eliminates the calls to vm_page_busy() that
immediately precede a call to vm_page_remove() or functions, such as
vm_page_free() and vm_page_rename(), that call it and (2) relaxes the
requirement in vm_page_remove() that the vm page's PG_BUSY flag is
set. Now, the vm page's PG_BUSY flag is set only when the vm object
lock is released while the vm page is still in transition. Typically,
this is when it is undergoing I/O.
pmap_protect() and pmap_remove(). In general, they require the lock in
order to modify a page's pv list or flags. In some cases, however,
pmap_protect() can avoid acquiring the lock.
could result in a panic "vm_page_cache: caching a dirty page, ...":
Access to the page must be restricted or removed before calling
vm_page_cache(). This race condition is identical in nature to that
which was addressed by vm_pageout.c's revision 1.251.
- Simplify the code surrounding the fix to this same race condition
in vm_pageout.c's revision 1.251. There should be no behavioral
change. Reviewed by: tegge
MFC after: 7 days
the added comment for low-level details.) The effect of this race
condition is a panic "vm_page_cache: caching a dirty page, ..."
Reviewed by: tegge
MFC after: 7 days
- struct plimit includes a mutex to protect a reference count. The plimit
structure is treated similarly to struct ucred in that is is always copy
on write, so having a reference to a structure is sufficient to read from
it without needing a further lock.
- The proc lock protects the p_limit pointer and must be held while reading
limits from a process to keep the limit structure from changing out from
under you while reading from it.
- Various global limits that are ints are not protected by a lock since
int writes are atomic on all the archs we support and thus a lock
wouldn't buy us anything.
- All accesses to individual resource limits from a process are abstracted
behind a simple lim_rlimit(), lim_max(), and lim_cur() API that return
either an rlimit, or the current or max individual limit of the specified
resource from a process.
- dosetrlimit() was renamed to kern_setrlimit() to match existing style of
other similar syscall helper functions.
- The alpha OSF/1 compat layer no longer calls getrlimit() and setrlimit()
(it didn't used the stackgap when it should have) but uses lim_rlimit()
and kern_setrlimit() instead.
- The svr4 compat no longer uses the stackgap for resource limits calls,
but uses lim_rlimit() and kern_setrlimit() instead.
- The ibcs2 compat no longer uses the stackgap for resource limits. It
also no longer uses the stackgap for accessing sysctl's for the
ibcs2_sysconf() syscall but uses kernel_sysctl() instead. As a result,
ibcs2_sysconf() no longer needs Giant.
- The p_rlimit macro no longer exists.
Submitted by: mtm (mostly, I only did a few cleanups and catchups)
Tested on: i386
Compiled on: alpha, amd64
vm_pageout_page_stats() from Giant.
- Modify vm_pager_put_pages() and vm_pager_page_unswapped() to expect the
vm object to be locked on entry. (All of the pager routines now expect
this.)
vm_pageout_scan(). Rationale: I don't like leaving a busy page in the
cache queue with neither the vm object nor the vm page queues lock held.
- Assert that the page is active in vm_pageout_page_stats().
to the object's type field and the call to vm_pageout_flush() are
synchronized.
- The above change allows for the eliminaton of the last parameter
to vm_pageout_flush().
- Synchronize access to the page's valid field in vm_pageout_flush()
using the containing object's lock.
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)
