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
case that the reservation contained "low", the starting position in the
popmap for the free page search was incorrectly calculated. The most
likely (and visible) symptom of this error was the assertion failure,
"vm_reserv_reclaim_contig: pa is too low".
isn't being allocated for the last of the requested pages, because a
reservation won't fit in the gap between allocated pages, then the
reservation structure shouldn't be initialized.
While I'm here, improve the nearby comments.
Reported by: jeff, pho
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
machines. Specifically, there was a mismatch between how the routine
allocation and deallocation operations accessed the population map
and how the aggressively optimized reservation-breaking operation
accessed it. So, problems only occurred when reservations were broken.
This change makes the routine operations access the population map in
the same way as the reservation breaking operation.
This bug was introduced in r259999.
PR: 187080
Tested by: jmg (on an "armeb" machine)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
a partially populated reservation becomes fully populated, and decrease this
field when a fully populated reservation becomes partially populated.
Use this field to simplify the implementation of pmap_enter_object() on
amd64, arm, and i386.
On all architectures where we support superpages, the cost of creating a
superpage mapping is roughly the same as creating a base page mapping. For
example, both kinds of mappings entail the creation of a single PTE and PV
entry. With this in mind, use the page size field to make the
implementation of vm_map_pmap_enter(..., MAP_PREFAULT_PARTIAL) a little
smarter. Previously, if MAP_PREFAULT_PARTIAL was specified to
vm_map_pmap_enter(), that function would only map base pages. Now, it will
create up to 96 base page or superpage mappings.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Change the way that reservations keep track of which pages are in use.
Instead of using the page's PG_CACHED and PG_FREE flags, maintain a bit
vector within the reservation. This approach has a couple benefits.
First, it makes breaking reservations much cheaper because there are
fewer cache misses to identify the unused pages. Second, it is a pre-
requisite for supporting two or more reservation sizes.
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
Replace the per-object resident and cached pages splay tree with a
path-compressed multi-digit radix trie.
Along with this, switch also the x86-specific handling of idle page
tables to using the radix trie.
This change is supposed to do the following:
- Allowing the acquisition of read locking for lookup operations of the
resident/cached pages collections as the per-vm_page_t splay iterators
are now removed.
- Increase the scalability of the operations on the page collections.
The radix trie does rely on the consumers locking to ensure atomicity of
its operations. In order to avoid deadlocks the bisection nodes are
pre-allocated in the UMA zone. This can be done safely because the
algorithm needs at maximum one new node per insert which means the
maximum number of the desired nodes is the number of available physical
frames themselves. However, not all the times a new bisection node is
really needed.
The radix trie implements path-compression because UFS indirect blocks
can lead to several objects with a very sparse trie, increasing the number
of levels to usually scan. It also helps in the nodes pre-fetching by
introducing the single node per-insert property.
This code is not generalized (yet) because of the possible loss of
performance by having much of the sizes in play configurable.
However, efforts to make this code more general and then reusable in
further different consumers might be really done.
The only KPI change is the removal of the function vm_page_splay() which
is now reaped.
The only KBI change, instead, is the removal of the left/right iterators
from struct vm_page, which are now reaped.
Further technical notes broken into mealpieces can be retrieved from the
svn branch:
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/attilio/vmcontention/
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
In collaboration with: alc, jeff
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
Tested by: ian (arm)
Tested by: andreast (powerpc)
future further optimizations where the vm_object lock will be held
in read mode most of the time the page cache resident pool of pages
are accessed for reading purposes.
The change is mostly mechanical but few notes are reported:
* The KPI changes as follow:
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_TRYLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_TRYWLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WUNLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK_ASSERT(MA_OWNED) -> VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_WLOCKED()
(in order to avoid visibility of implementation details)
- The read-mode operations are added:
VM_OBJECT_RLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_TRYRLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_RUNLOCK(),
VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_RLOCKED(), VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_LOCKED()
* The vm/vm_pager.h namespace pollution avoidance (forcing requiring
sys/mutex.h in consumers directly to cater its inlining functions
using VM_OBJECT_LOCK()) imposes that all the vm/vm_pager.h
consumers now must include also sys/rwlock.h.
* zfs requires a quite convoluted fix to include FreeBSD rwlocks into
the compat layer because the name clash between FreeBSD and solaris
versions must be avoided.
At this purpose zfs redefines the vm_object locking functions
directly, isolating the FreeBSD components in specific compat stubs.
The KPI results heavilly broken by this commit. Thirdy part ports must
be updated accordingly (I can think off-hand of VirtualBox, for example).
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: jeff
Reviewed by: pjd (ZFS specific review)
Discussed with: alc
Tested by: pho
that it will be freed to the cache pool rather than the default pool.
Otherwise, the cached pages within the reservation may be recycled sooner
than necessary.
Reported by: Andrey Zonov
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.
sbuf_new_for_sysctl(9). This allows using an sbuf with a SYSCTL_OUT
drain for extremely large amounts of data where the caller knows that
appropriate references are held, and sleeping is not an issue.
Inspired by: rwatson
creation of large page mappings in the pmap, it can provide modest
performance benefits. In particular, for a "buildworld" on a 2x 1GHz
Ultrasparc IIIi it reduced the wall clock time by 2.2% and the system
time by 12.6%.
Tested by: marius@
Add a drain function for struct sysctl_req, and use it for a variety
of handlers, some of which had to do awkward things to get a large
enough SBUF_FIXEDLEN buffer.
Note that some sysctl handlers were explicitly outputting a trailing
NUL byte. This behaviour was preserved, though it should not be
necessary.
Reviewed by: phk (original patch)
unexpected things in copyout(9) and so wiring the user buffer is not
sufficient to perform a copyout(9) while holding a random mutex.
Requested by: nwhitehorn
handlers, some of which had to do awkward things to get a large enough
FIXEDLEN buffer.
Note that some sysctl handlers were explicitly outputting a trailing NUL
byte. This behaviour was preserved, though it should not be necessary.
Reviewed by: phk
a reservation, unless all of the reservation's pages were free, the
reservation was moved to the head of the partially-populated reservations
queue, where it would be the next reservation to be broken in case the
free page queues were emptied. Now, instead, I am moving it to the tail.
Very likely this reservation is in the process of being freed in its
entirety, so placing it at the tail of the queue makes it more likely that
the underlying physical memory will be returned to the free page queues as
one contiguous chunk. If a reservation must be broken, it will, instead,
be the longest unchanged reservation, which is arguably the reservation
that is least likely to ever achieve promotion or be freed in its entirety.
MFC after: 6 weeks
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.)
