This yields startling performance increases for NFS clients for many
access profiles, due to the fact that ACCESS results are persistently
cached in the namecache in many cases.
Note that the code is somewhat conservative in that it requires an
exact credential match for a cache hit. This bloats the nfsnode
structure by sizeof(struct ucred) (96 bytes). Any less conservative
approach opens the possibility for a false veto in eg. setuid
applications. Alternative suggestions would be welcomed.
The cache is normally disabled, to activate set the sysctl variable
vfs.nfs.access_cache_timeout to a nonzero value. This is the time in
seconds that a cached entry will be considered valid; useful values appear
to be 2-10 seconds. Performance of the cache can be monitored with the
vfs.nfs.access_cache_hits and vfs.nfs.access_cache_hits variables.
basically do a on-the-fly defragmentation of the FFS filesystem, changing
file block allocations to make them contiguous. Thanks to Kirk McKusick
for providing hints on what needed to be done to get this working.
linker. This is intended to replace kvm_mkdb etc. The first version
only does name->value lookups, but it's open ended. value->name lookups
would probably be a good thing to do too.
It's been suggested to try and connect the symbol tables to sysctl (which
is probably a more flexible way of doing it if it's done right), but that
is far more complex and difficult than I was ready to have a shot at.
by bde, a few other tweaks to get the patch to apply cleanly again and
some improvements to the comments.
This change closes some fairly minor security holes associated with
F_SETOWN, fixes a few bugs, and removes some limitations that F_SETOWN
had on tty devices. For more details, see the description on the PR.
Because this patch increases the size of the proc and pgrp structures,
it is necessary to re-install the includes and recompile libkvm,
the vinum lkm, fstat, gcore, gdb, ipfilter, ps, top, and w.
PR: kern/7899
Reviewed by: bde, elvind
leaked memory on each unload and were limited to items referenced in
the kernel copy of vnode_if.c. Now a kernel module is free to create
it's own VOP_FOO() routines and the rest of the system will happily
deal with it, including passthrough layers like union/umap/etc.
Have VFS_SET() call a common vfs_modevent() handler rather than
inline duplicating the common code all over the place.
Have VNODEOP_SET() have the vnodeops removed at unload time (assuming a
module) so that the vop_t ** vector is reclaimed.
Slightly adjust the vop_t ** vectors so that calling slot 0 is a panic
rather than a page fault. This could happen if VOP_something() was called
without *any* handlers being present anywhere (including in vfs_default.c).
slot 1 becomes the default vector for the vnodeop table.
TODO: reclaim zones on unload (eg: nfs code)
removed at module unload (if in a module of course).
However; this introduces a new dependency on <sys/kernel.h> for things
that use MALLOC_DECLARE(). Bruce told me it is better to add sys/kernel.h
to the handful of files that need it rather than add an extra include to
sys/malloc.h for kernel compiles. Updates to follow in subsequent commits.
If the next available mailbox is not in the free state, print a warning
and handle the condition as a temporary resource shortage. The condition
should never happen, but we shouldn't panic since recovery is possible.
Convert from BT'isms to AHA'isms
Don't fail the probe if the illegal command bit is set in the status
register. If the BusLogic MultiMaster probe preceeded us, it may well
have determined that the card we are attaching to was not a true MultiMaster
by sending us a command that fails on the 154X.
Reset the adapter before doing the inquiry. This provides extra sanity
and will also clear the illegal command status bit that my be left over
from the MultiMaster probe.
dereference a NULL pointer, causing a panic. Instead of following
s_leader to find the session id, store it in the session structure.
Jukka found the following info:
BTW - I just found what I have been looking for. Std 1003.1
Part 1: SYSTEM API [C LANGUAGE] section 2.2.2.80 states quite
explicitly...
Session lifetime: The period between when a session is created
and the end of lifetime of all the process groups that remain
as members of the session.
So, this quite clearly tells that while there is any single
process in any process group which is a member of the session,
the session remains as an independent entity.
Reviewed by: peter
Submitted by: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@jau.tmt.tele.fi>
second argument. np_size is a 64 bit int, so is the second arg. This
might have caused needless 2G/4G file size problems.
I believe it was Bruce who queried this.
of the input file more strict and the error messages more elaborate.
Second, the output file has slightly improved looks when >80 character
lines are concerned (I needed a 80 character line formatter anyway for
work...)."
Submitted by: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
interface. Do some general consistency fixes and space optimizations.
Use of some freed-up space to defend against possible BIOS misfeatures.
boot2: Revise disk read interface to provide for boot1 changes. Free
up space for this.
truncated to 32 bits.
* Change the calling convention of the device mmap entry point to
pass a vm_offset_t instead of an int for the offset allowing
devices with a larger memory map than (1<<32) to be supported
on the alpha (/dev/mem is one such).
These changes are required to allow the X server to mmap the various
I/O regions used for device port and memory access on the alpha.
o add fkey and fread
o eliminate fexists now that this can be expressed in HLL forth
( : fexists fopen dup -1 <> if fclose 1 else drop 0 then ; ) :-)
Once we get the ability to write files, it should be possible to do
stand-alone rescue work from the 3rd stage boot. :)
we can recurse when loading dependencies and that the kstack is limited
to something like 6 or 7KB. Having a single dependency caused an instant
double panic, and I stronly suspect some of the other strange "events"
that I have seen are possibly as a result of taking a couple of interrupts
with a large chunk of the stack already in use.
While here, fix a minor logic hiccup in a sanity check.
file to a stream socket. sendfile(2) is similar to implementations in
HP-UX, Linux, and other systems, but the API is more extensive and
addresses many of the complaints that the Apache Group and others have
had with those other implementations. Thanks to Marc Slemko of the
Apache Group for helping me work out the best API for this.
Anyway, this has the "net" result of speeding up sends of files over
TCP/IP sockets by about 10X (that is to say, uses 1/10th of the CPU
cycles) when compared to a traditional read/write loop.
o Add fexists word to check for the presence of a file
o make fexists and fload immediate words which DTRT both interpreted
and compiled (doh!)
o add an init word which gets run at bootstrapping time to do extra
post-coldload initialization (in the default implementation, we
look for /boot/boot.4th and load it if found).
Also fix data types and printf formats while I'm here.
PR: misc/8494
Panic instead of looping forever in sbflush(). If sb_mbcnt counts
more mbufs than sb_cc counts bytes, the original code can turn into an
infinite loop of removing 0 bytes from the socket buffer until it's empty.
drives. It seems that quite a few (possibly all?) of their drives respond
to inquiries on multiple luns. Hopefully we can detect problems like this
in the probe phase at some point. For now, this is a pretty functional
solution.
to the Forth interpreter. Instantiate all of our inbuilt commands
as Forth words, and handle them being called from there.
Add my copyright to the bcache module (oops).
for in a loaded module of type "userconfig_script". The RB_CONFIG
flag will always result in the user being left inside userconfig at
the end of the script's execution, regardless of 'quit' commands in
the script. If the RB_CONFIG flag is not specified, the user will
never be left inside userconfig, even if the script does not have an
explicit exit command.
Add the INTRO_USERCONFIG option. This option forces the userconfig 'intro'
screen (after a script has optionally been executed). There is no longer
a need to queue an 'intro' command.
base register that controls Ultra-DMA, so we need to examine all possible
base registers instead of just giving up at the first empty one.
Also, looking at the source code to the BIOS, I see that they are also
checking for 0xffffffff as an invalid value so do the same. Stefan may like
to clean this up, but at least now I can find my PCI IDE registers.
this will allow us to manage bloat in the loader by using a bytecoded HLL
rather than lots of C code. It also offers an opportunity for vendors
or others with special applications to significantly customise the boot
process without having to commit to a divergent code branch.
This early commit is to allow others to experiment with the most effective
mechanisms for integrating FICL with the loader as it currently stands.
Ficl is distributed with the following license conditions:
"Ficl is freeware. Use it in any way that you like, with the understanding
that the code is not supported."
All source files contain authorship attributions.
Obtained from: John Sadler (john_sadler@alum.mit.edu)
and will bypass transfers for more than 8k. Blocks are invalidated after
2 seconds, so removable media should not confuse the cache.
The 8k threshold is a compromise; all UFS transfers performed by
libstand are 8k or less, so large file reads thrash the cache.
However many filesystem metadata operations are also performed using
8k blocks, so using a lower threshold gives poor performance.
Those of you with an eye for cache algorithms are welcome to tell me
how badly this one sucks; you can start with the 'bcachestats' command
which will print the contents of the cache and access statistics.
the top half to do it.
Put in a dubious check for subdisk integrity when trying to bring
up a plex where others are already up. This particular kludge is
crying out for a rewrite of the whole state code.
Add code to set_plex_state and set_volume_state to defer updates when
called from an interrupt context. This doesn't happen yet, but it
could do.
the NFSv3 ACCESS RPC problems a little for busy clients that do a lot of
open/close. The nfs code could probably cache the results, but I'm not
sure whether this would be legal or useful. The problem is that with
a CPU farm, on each open there would be a lookup, getattr then access RPC
then the read/write RPC activity. Caching the access results probably
isn't going to help much if the clients access lots of files. Having the
nfs_access() routine interpret the getattr results is a bit of a hack, but
it's how NFSv2 is done and it might be OK for a mount attribute for v3.
manipulation away from the length comparison. Measurements on beast.cdrom.com
show >3X improvement over the original code on large block sizes, putting the
performance on par with the optimized assembly code in libc.
and increase the tx interrupt threshold to 4. This fixes performance
problems on slower systems.
Also fix a mind-o in the rx ring init routine: I used the TX
constant instead of the RX. This isn't a problem as long as the
rings are the same size, but if they aren't hijinx will ensue.
* Embed the stack into the bss section for loader and netboot. This
is required for netboot since otherwise the stack would be inside our
heap.
* Install loader and netboot in /boot by default.
* Fix getbootfile so that it searches for a ',' instead of a ';'
when terminating the filename.
sure that this is necessary to be a sync write here since a VOP_FSYNC()
follows and it will schedule, sort and complete the writes that the
vm_object_page_clean() started (as I think I understand things).
- Use TAILQ_* macros extensively instead of internal names
- use b_xflags instead of the NOLIST magic number hack in the next pointer
- clean bufs are inserted at the tail rather than the head.
- redo dirty buffer insert so that metadata (negative lbn) goes to the
tail directly rather than at the HEAD. This makes a difference when
inserting dirty data blocks in lbn sorted order since data block
insertion will not have to bypass all the metadata cruft. data is
lbn sorted since it makes sense for clustering and writeback ordering,
while metadata sorting doesn't help much since the lbn's are
meaningless when walking the list for writebacks.
Small systems will not notice much (if any) benefit from this, but really
busy systems with large dirty block lists should get a lot more.
I've tested this with softdep, and it doesn't seem to mind the change of
queueing of metadata.
Reviewed (in princible) by: dg
Obtained from: partly from John Dyson's work-in-progress patches in June.
Add a new flags field (we get this for free because of struct packing)
for cleaner management of tailq membership.
We had two spare b_flags slots, but they are a precious resource and may
be needed for other things that are related to other b_flags bits. The two
new flags are convenient to use in a seperate location.
Reviewed (in principle) by: dg
Obtained from: John Dyson's old work-in-progress
basic i/o functions, bit-banging mechanism is implemented by dev/iicbus/iicbb.c
immio.c: some bootverbose logs to watch zip+ connect/disconnect process
a vga.
* Fix broken logic in syscons for a failed probe.
* Fix AlphaStation 500/600 so that non-serial consoles are supported.
Submitted by: Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu> (vga bits),
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> (AS500/AS600)
the old true/false.
While here, have vfs_msync() only call vm_object_page_clean() with
OBJPC_SYNC if called with MNT_WAIT flags. vfs_msync() is called at unmount
time (with MNT_WAIT) and from the syncer process (formerly update).
This should make dirty mmap writebacks a little less nasty.
I have tested this a little with SOFTUPDATES enabled, but I don't normally
use it since I've been badly burned too many times.
filesystems.
- New 'help' command and data in the help.* files (not yet installed),
provides topic and subtopic help, indexes, etc.
- Don't crash if the user tries to set an invalid console. Be helpful
instead.
- Expand tabs (badly) on the i386 video console.
- Some minor cosmetic changes.
installed.
Remove cpu_power_down, and replace it with an entry at the end of the
SHUTDOWN_FINAL queue in the only place it's used (APM).
Submitted by: Some ideas from Bruce Walter <walter@fortean.com>
