Differential Revision discusses the benefits of this change.)
Add a function, vm_reserv_to_superpage(), that returns the superpage
containing the specified base page.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 10 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11556
add support for object types that were previously prohibited because they
could contain PG_CACHED pages.
Roughly halve the number of radix trie operations performed by
vm_page_alloc_contig() using the same approach that is employed by
vm_page_alloc(). Also, eliminate the radix trie lookup performed with the
free page queues lock held.
Tidy up the handling of radix trie insert failures in vm_page_alloc() and
vm_page_alloc_contig().
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8878
not remove user-space visible fields from vm_cnt or all of the references to
cached pages from comments. Those changes will come later.)
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8497
address and use this mechanism when:
1. kmem_alloc_{attr,contig}() can't find suitable free pages in the physical
memory allocator's free page lists. This replaces the long-standing
approach of scanning the inactive and inactive queues, converting clean
pages into PG_CACHED pages and laundering dirty pages. In contrast, the
new mechanism does not use PG_CACHED pages nor does it trigger a large
number of I/O operations.
2. on 32-bit MIPS processors, uma_small_alloc() and the pmap can't find
free pages in the physical memory allocator's free page lists that are
covered by the direct map. Tested by: adrian
3. ttm_bo_global_init() and ttm_vm_page_alloc_dma32() can't find suitable
free pages in the physical memory allocator's free page lists.
In the coming months, I expect that this new mechanism will be applied in
other places. For example, balloon drivers should use relocation to
minimize fragmentation of the guest physical address space.
Make vm_phys_alloc_contig() a little smarter (and more efficient in some
cases). Specifically, use vm_phys_segs[] earlier to avoid scanning free
page lists that can't possibly contain suitable pages.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Glanced at: jhb
Discussed with: jeff
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4444
vm_page_insert() so that (1) vm_radix_lookup_le() is never called while the
free page queues lock is held and (2) vm_radix_lookup_le() is called at most
once. This change reduces the average time that the free page queues lock
is held by vm_page_alloc() as well as vm_page_alloc()'s average overall
running time.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
use superpage reservations. So, for the first time, kernel virtual memory
that is allocated by contigmalloc(), kmem_alloc_attr(), and
kmem_alloc_contig() can be promoted to superpages. In fact, even a series
of small contigmalloc() allocations may collectively result in a promoted
superpage.
Eliminate some duplication of code in vm_reserv_alloc_page().
Change the type of vm_reserv_reclaim_contig()'s first parameter in order
that it be consistent with other vm_*_contig() functions.
Tested by: marius (sparc64)
eliminating duplicated code in the various pmap implementations.
Micro-optimize vm_phys_free_pages().
Introduce vm_phys_free_contig(). It is fast routine for freeing an
arbitrary number of physically contiguous pages. In particular, it
doesn't require the number of pages to be a power of two.
Use "u_long" instead of "unsigned long".
Bruce Evans (bde@) has convinced me that the "boundary" parameters
to kmem_alloc_contig(), vm_phys_alloc_contig(), and
vm_reserv_reclaim_contig() should be of type "vm_paddr_t" and not
"u_long". Make this change.
contigmalloc(9) as a last resort to steal pages from an inactive,
partially-used superpage reservation.
Rename vm_reserv_reclaim() to vm_reserv_reclaim_inactive() and
refactor it so that a separate subroutine is responsible for breaking
the selected reservation. This subroutine is also used by
vm_reserv_reclaim_contig().
machine-independent support for superpages. (The earlier part was
the rewrite of the physical memory allocator.) The remainder of the
code required for superpages support is machine-dependent and will
be added to the various pmap implementations at a later date.
Initially, I am only supporting one large page size per architecture.
Moreover, I am only enabling the reservation system on amd64. (In
an emergency, it can be disabled by setting VM_NRESERVLEVELS to 0
in amd64/include/vmparam.h or your kernel configuration file.)