bits. We used a private, wrong, version of `struct dirent' to help
break getdirentries(), and we use a silly check that the size of this
struct is a power of 2 to help break mount() if getdirentries() would
not work. This fix just changes the struct to match `struct dirent'
(except for the name length).
not actually work for cross compiling, but that is another problem.)
Honor LDFLAGS for building internal tools. (Tools should normally
be built static to avoid problems with picking up target shared
libraries. bsd.kmod doesn't set -static yet, and has some problems
with `LDFLAGS=-static ...' in the environment.)
writes of size (100,208]+N*MCLBYTES.
The bug:
sosend() hands each mbuf off to the protocol output routine as soon as it
has copied it, in the hopes of increasing parallelism (see
http://www.kohala.com/~rstevens/vanj.88jul20.txt ). This works well for
TCP as long as the first mbuf handed off is at least the MSS. However,
when doing small writes (between MHLEN and MINCLSIZE), the transaction is
split into 2 small MBUF's and each is individually handed off to TCP.
TCP assumes that the first small mbuf is the whole transaction, so sends
a small packet. When the second small mbuf arrives, Nagle prevents TCP
from sending it so it must wait for a (potentially delayed) ACK. This
sends throughput down the toilet.
The workaround:
Set the "atomic" flag when we're doing small writes. The "atomic" flag
has two meanings:
1. Copy all of the data into a chain of mbufs before handing off to the
protocol.
2. Leave room for a datagram header in said mbuf chain.
TCP wants the first but doesn't want the second. However, the second
simply results in some memory wastage (but is why the workaround is a
hack and not a fix).
The real fix:
The real fix for this problem is to introduce something like a "requested
transfer size" variable in the socket->protocol interface. sosend()
would then accumulate an mbuf chain until it exceeded the "requested
transfer size". TCP could set it to the TCP MSS (note that the
current interface causes strange TCP behaviors when the MSS > MCLBYTES;
nobody notices because MCLBYTES > ethernet's MTU).
is the kernel part of my commits, the userlevel stuff will be done in
a separate commit. Add the ability to suspend as well as hibernate to
syscons. Create a new virtual key like hibernate for suspend. Update
apm_bios.h to define more apm bios goodies.
Any packet that can be matched by a ipfw rule can be redirected
transparently to another port or machine. Redirection to another port
mostly makes sense with tcp, where a session can be set up
between a proxy and an unsuspecting client. Redirection to another machine
requires that the other machine also be expecting to receive the forwarded
packets, as their headers will not have been modified.
/sbin/ipfw must be recompiled!!!
Reviewed by: Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>
Submitted by: Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net>
Each devfs node has (and has had fro a while) a pointer directly to
the correct cdefsw entry so just use it instead of doing the lookup.
There are several other places in the kernel that still use the tables
however, so they can't go away yet..
Not sure of the result of it..
(may or may not effect anything) but it's fixed now.
(found by: comparing what cvsup sent back to me with what I tested..)
mask address around when registering interrupts is wrong IMHO. We should
use a priority level like IPL_BIO and the lower levels can then translate
it into a mask if they want.
There is only cdevsw (which should be renamed in a later edit to deventry
or something). cdevsw contains the union of what were in both bdevsw an
cdevsw entries. The bdevsw[] table stiff exists and is a second pointer
to the cdevsw entry of the device. it's major is in d_bmaj rather than
d_maj. some cleanup still to happen (e.g. dsopen now gets two pointers
to the same cdevsw struct instead of one to a bdevsw and one to a cdevsw).
rawread()/rawwrite() went away as part of this though it's not strictly
the same patch, just that it involves all the same lines in the drivers.
cdroms no longer have write() entries (they did have rawwrite (?)).
tapes no longer have support for bdev operations.
Reviewed by: Eivind Eklund and Mike Smith
Changes suggested by eivind.
as the value in b_vp is often not really what you want.
(and needs to be frobbed). more cleanups will follow this.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org>
as possible (when the inode is reclaimed). Temporarily only do
this if option UFS_LAZYMOD configured and softupdates aren't enabled.
UFS_LAZYMOD is intentionally left out of /sys/conf/options.
This is mainly to avoid almost useless disk i/o on battery powered
machines. It's silly to write to disk (on the next sync or when the
inode becomes inactive) just because someone hit a key or something
wrote to the screen or /dev/null.
PR: 5577
Previous version reviewed by: phk
in ufs_setattr() so that there is no need to pass timestamps to
UFS_UPDATE() (everything else just needs the current time). Ignore
the passed-in timestamps in UFS_UPDATE() and always call ufs_itimes()
(was: itimes()) to do the update. The timestamps are still passed
so that all the callers don't need to be changed yet.
Kapok Computer Co. notebook with AMI 'WinBIOS' which seems to insist
on having a short jump and nop as the first instructions in the
boot sector code. The prevailing theory is that the BIOS is doing
some sort of boot sector virus detection and refusing to run any
boot block that doesn't start with the same instruction sequence as
MS-DOG boot sector code. If this is the case, it would be nice if it
actually printed an error message to this effect instead of just
saying 'FAILED.'
This workaround has no effect on the boot sector code other than to
increase its size by three bytes.
