The hold_count and wire_count fields of struct vm_page are separate
reference counters with similar semantics. The remaining essential
differences are that holds are not counted as a reference with respect
to LRU, and holds have an implicit free-on-last unhold semantic whereas
vm_page_unwire() callers must explicitly determine whether to free the
page once the last reference to the page is released.
This change removes the KPIs which directly manipulate hold_count.
Functions such as vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() now return wired pages
instead. Since r328977 the overhead of maintaining LRU for wired pages
is lower, and in many cases vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() callers would
swap holds for wirings on the returned pages anyway, so with this change
we remove a number of page lock acquisitions.
No functional change is intended. __FreeBSD_version is bumped.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Discussed with: jeff
Discussed with: jhb, np (cxgbe)
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19247
When QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH is configured, removing a queue element
invalidates its queue linkage pointers. vm_pageout_collect_batch()
was relying on these pointers remaining valid after a removal, so
modify it to fetch the next queued page before dequeuing the current
page.
Submitted by: Don Morris <dgmorris@earthlink.net>
Reviewed by: cem, vangyzen
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20842
Use it instead of accessing the wire_count field directly. No
functional change intended.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20485
Historically we have not distinguished between kernel wirings and user
wirings for accounting purposes. User wirings (via mlock(2)) were
subject to a global limit on the number of wired pages, so if large
swaths of physical memory were wired by the kernel, as happens with
the ZFS ARC among other things, the limit could be exceeded, causing
user wirings to fail.
The change adds a new counter, v_user_wire_count, which counts the
number of virtual pages wired by user processes via mlock(2) and
mlockall(2). Only user-wired pages are subject to the system-wide
limit which helps provide some safety against deadlocks. In
particular, while sources of kernel wirings typically support some
backpressure mechanism, there is no way to reclaim user-wired pages
shorting of killing the wiring process. The limit is exported as
vm.max_user_wired, renamed from vm.max_wired, and changed from u_int
to u_long.
The choice to count virtual user-wired pages rather than physical
pages was done for simplicity. There are mechanisms that can cause
user-wired mappings to be destroyed while maintaining a wiring of
the backing physical page; these make it difficult to accurately
track user wirings at the physical page layer.
The change also closes some holes which allowed user wirings to succeed
even when they would cause the system limit to be exceeded. For
instance, mmap() may now fail with ENOMEM in a process that has called
mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) if the new mapping would cause the user wiring
limit to be exceeded.
Note that bhyve -S is subject to the user wiring limit, which defaults
to 1/3 of physical RAM. Users that wish to exceed the limit must tune
vm.max_user_wired.
Reviewed by: kib, ngie (mlock() test changes)
Tested by: pho (earlier version)
MFC after: 45 days
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19908
linear search can, so use it to avoid a linear search in isqrt.
Approved by: kib (mentor), markj (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20102
Use the object pointer itself to determine whether the object is locked.
No functional change intended.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19215
In practice it is always initialized because nfreed must be positive
in order to trigger background laundering, but this isn't obvious.
CID: 1387997
MFC after: 1 week
- In uma_prealloc(), we need to check for an empty domain before the
first allocation attempt, not after. Fix this by switching
uma_prealloc() to use a vm_domainset iterator, which addresses the
secondary issue of using a signed domain identifier in round-robin
iteration.
- Don't automatically create a page daemon for domain 0.
- In domainset_empty_vm(), recompute ds_cnt and ds_order after
excluding empty domains; otherwise we may frequently specify an empty
domain when calling in to the page allocator, wasting CPU time.
Convert DOMAINSET_PREF() policies for empty domains to round-robin.
- When freeing bootstrap pages, don't count them towards the per-domain
total page counts for now: some vm_phys segments are created before
the SRAT is parsed and are thus always identified as being in domain 0
even when they are not. Then, when bootstrap pages are freed, they
are added to a domain that we had previously thought was empty. Until
this is corrected, we simply exclude them from the per-domain page
count.
Reported and tested by: Rajesh Kumar <rajfbsd@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: gallatin
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17704
The AMD Threadripper 2990WX is basically a slightly crippled Epyc.
Rather than having 4 memory controllers, one per NUMA domain, it has
only 2 memory controllers enabled. This means that only 2 of the
4 NUMA domains can be populated with physical memory, and the
others are empty.
Add support to FreeBSD for empty NUMA domains by:
- creating empty memory domains when parsing the SRAT table,
rather than failing to parse the table
- not running the pageout deamon threads in empty domains
- adding defensive code to UMA to avoid allocating from empty domains
- adding defensive code to cpuset to avoid binding to an empty domain
Thanks to Jeff for suggesting this strategy.
Reviewed by: alc, markj
Approved by: re (gjb@)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1683
Expose these counters under the vm.domain sysctl node. The existing
vm.stats.vm.v_pdpages sysctl is preserved.
Reviewed by: alc (previous version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14666
Before r329882 the target would be computed after lowmem handlers run
and free pages. On some systems a significant amount of page
reclamation happens this way. However, with r329882 the target is
computed first, which can lead to unnecessary reclamation from the
page cache, and this in turn may result in excessive swapping.
Instead, adjust the target after running lowmem handlers. Don't
invoke the lowmem handlers before the PID controller, though, since
that would hide the true rate of page allocation.
Reviewed by: alc, kib (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16606
so that a reference from a concurrently destroyed mapping is observed
during the current scan.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16277
It serves little purpose after r308474 and r329882. As a side
effect, the removal fixes a bug in r329882 which caused the
page daemon to periodically invoke lowmem handlers even in the
absence of memory pressure.
Reviewed by: jeff
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15491
The scans are largely independent, so this helps make the code
marginally neater, and makes it easier to incorporate feedback from the
active queue scan into the page daemon control loop.
Improve some comments while here. No functional change intended.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15490
Such pages are dequeued as they're encountered during the inactive queue
scan, so by the time we get to the active queue scan, they should have
already been subtracted from the inactive queue length.
Reviewed by: alc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15479
vm_page_queue(), added in r333256, generalizes vm_pageout_page_queued(),
so use it instead. No functional change intended.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15402
With r332974, when performing a synchronized access of a page's "queue"
field, one must first check whether the page is logically dequeued. If
so, then the page lock does not prevent the page from being removed
from its page queue. Intoduce vm_page_queue(), which returns the page's
logical queue index. In some cases, direct access to the "queue" field
is still required, but such accesses should be confined to sys/vm.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15280
Currently both the page lock and a page queue lock must be held in
order to enqueue, dequeue or requeue a page in a given page queue.
The queue locks are a scalability bottleneck in many workloads. This
change reduces page queue lock contention by batching queue operations.
To detangle the page and page queue locks, per-CPU batch queues are
used to reference pages with pending queue operations. The requested
operation is encoded in the page's aflags field with the page lock
held, after which the page is enqueued for a deferred batch operation.
Page queue scans are similarly optimized to minimize the amount of
work performed with a page queue lock held.
Reviewed by: kib, jeff (previous versions)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14893
They were previously initialized by the corresponding page daemon
threads, but for vmd_inacthead this may be too late if
vm_page_deactivate_noreuse() is called during boot.
Reported and tested by: cperciva
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
The division added in r331732 meant that we wouldn't attempt a
background laundering until at least v_free_target - v_free_min clean
pages had been freed by the page daemon since the last laundering. If
the inactive queue is depleted but not completely empty (e.g., because
it contains busy pages), it can thus take a long time to meet this
threshold. Restore the pre-r331732 behaviour of using a non-zero
background laundering threshold if at least one inactive queue scan has
elapsed since the last attempt at background laundering.
Submitted by: tijl (original version)
Rather than using the number of inactive queue scans as a metric for
how many clean pages are being freed by the page daemon, have the
page daemon keep a running counter of the number of pages it has freed,
and have the laundry thread use that when computing the background
laundering threshold.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14884
vmd_free_count manipulation. Reduce the scope of the free lock by
using a pageout lock to synchronize sleep and wakeup. Only trigger
the pageout daemon on transitions between states. Drive all wakeup
operations directly as side-effects from freeing memory rather than
requiring an additional function call.
Reviewed by: markj, kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14612
Page daemon threads for other domains show up in ps(1) output as
"pagedaemon/domN", so let that be the case for domain 0 as well.
Submitted by: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14518
With r329882, in the absence of a free page shortage we would only take
len(PQ_INACTIVE)+len(PQ_LAUNDRY) into account when deciding whether to
aggressively scan PQ_ACTIVE. Previously we would also include the
number of free pages in this computation, ensuring that we wouldn't scan
PQ_ACTIVE with plenty of free memory available. The change in behaviour
was most noticeable immediately after booting, when PQ_INACTIVE and
PQ_LAUNDRY are nearly empty.
Reviewed by: jeff
use it to regulate page daemon output.
This provides much smoother and more responsive page daemon output, anticipating
demand and avoiding pageout stalls by increasing the number of pages to match
the workload. This is a reimplementation of work done by myself and mlaier at
Isilon.
Reviewed by: bsdimp
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14402
Make vm_wait() take the vm_object argument which specifies the domain
set to wait for the min condition pass. If there is no object
associated with the wait, use curthread' policy domainset. The
mechanics of the wait in vm_wait() and vm_wait_domain() is supplied by
the new helper vm_wait_doms(), which directly takes the bitmask of the
domains to wait for passing min condition.
Eliminate pagedaemon_wait(). vm_domain_clear() handles the same
operations.
Eliminate VM_WAIT and VM_WAITPFAULT macros, the direct functions calls
are enough.
Eliminate several control state variables from vm_domain, unneeded
after the vm_wait() conversion.
Scetched and reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation, Mellanox Technologies
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14384
Previously, wiring a page would cause it to be removed from its page
queue. In the common case, unwiring causes it to be enqueued at the tail
of that page queue. This change modifies vm_page_wire() to not dequeue
the page, thus avoiding the highly contended page queue locks. Instead,
vm_page_unwire() takes care of requeuing the page as a single operation,
and the page daemon dequeues wired pages as they are encountered during
a queue scan to avoid needlessly revisiting them later. For pages in
PQ_ACTIVE we do even better, since a requeue is unnecessary.
The change improves scalability for some common workloads. For instance,
threads wiring pages into the buffer cache no longer need to modify
global page queues, and unwiring is usually done by the bufspace thread,
so concurrency is not as much of an issue. As another example, many
sysctl handlers wire the output buffer to avoid faults on copyout, and
since the buffer is likely to be in PQ_ACTIVE, we now entirely avoid
modifying the page queue in this case.
The change also adds a block comment describing some properties of
struct vm_page's reference counters, and the busy lock.
Reviewed by: jeff
Discussed with: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11943
global to per-domain state. Protect reservations with the free lock
from the domain that they belong to. Refactor to make vm domains more
of a first class object.
Reviewed by: markj, kib, gallatin
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14000
Otherwise the page daemon will not reclaim pages and thus will not
wake threads sleeping in VM_WAIT.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc, kib
X-MFC with: r327168
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13640
Both issues caused the page daemon to erroneously go to sleep when
applications are consuming free pages at a high rate, leaving the
application threads blocked in VM_WAIT.
1) After completing an inactive queue scan, concurrent allocations may
have prevented the page daemon from meeting the v_free_min threshold.
In this case, the page daemon was going to sleep even when the
inactive queue contained plenty of clean pages.
2) pagedaemon_wakeup() may be called without the free queues lock held.
This can lead to a lost wakeup if a call occurs after the page daemon
clears vm_pageout_wanted but before going to sleep.
Fix 1) by ensuring that we start a new inactive queue scan immediately
if v_free_count < v_free_min after a prior scan.
Fix 2) by adding a new subroutine, pagedaemon_wait(), called from
vm_wait() and vm_waitpfault(). It wakes up the page daemon if either
vm_pages_needed or vm_pageout_wanted is false, and atomically sleeps
on v_free_count.
Reported by: jeff
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13424
The laundry thread keeps track of the number of inactive queue scans
performed by the page daemon, and was previously using the v_pdwakeups
counter to count them. However, in some cases the inactive queue may
be scanned multiple times after a single wakeup, so it's more accurate
to use a dedicated counter.
Reviewed by: alc, kib (previous version)
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13422
r292392 modified the active queue scan to weigh clean pages differently
from dirty pages when attempting to meet the inactive queue target. When
r306706 was merged into the PQ_LAUNDRY branch, this mechanism was
broken. Fix it by scalaing the correct page shortage variable.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13423
It's theoretically possible for the vnode and object to be disassociated
while locks are dropped around the vget() call, in which case we
shouldn't proceed with laundering.
Noted and reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
Initially, only tag files that use BSD 4-Clause "Original" license.
RelNotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13133
There is no NO_SWAPPING #ifdef left in the code.
Requested by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12663
Before r207410, the hold count of a page in a page queue was protected
by the queue lock, and, before laundering a page, the page daemon
removed managed writeable mappings of the page before releasing the
queue lock. This ensured that other threads could not concurrently
create transient writeable mappings using pmap_extract_and_hold() on a
user map, as is done for example by vmapbuf(). With that revision,
however, a race can allow the creation of such a mapping, meaning that
the page might be modified as it is being laundered, potentially
resulting in it being marked clean when its contents do not match
those given to the pager. Close the race by using the page lock to
synchronize the hold count check in vm_pageout_cluster() with the
removal of writeable managed mappings.
Reported by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12084
Decouple the pageout cluster size from the size of the hash table entry
used by the swap pager for mapping (object, pindex) to a block on the
swap device(s), and keep the size of a hash table entry at its current
size.
Eliminate a pointless macro.
Reviewed by: kib, markj (an earlier version)
MFC after: 4 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11305
in place. To do per-cpu stats, convert all fields that previously were
maintained in the vmmeters that sit in pcpus to counter(9).
- Since some vmmeter stats may be touched at very early stages of boot,
before we have set up UMA and we can do counter_u64_alloc(), provide an
early counter mechanism:
o Leave one spare uint64_t in struct pcpu, named pc_early_dummy_counter.
o Point counter(9) fields of vmmeter to pcpu[0].pc_early_dummy_counter,
so that at early stages of boot, before counters are allocated we already
point to a counter that can be safely written to.
o For sparc64 that required a whole dummy pcpu[MAXCPU] array.
Further related changes:
- Don't include vmmeter.h into pcpu.h.
- vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout and vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin changed to 64-bit,
to match kernel representation.
- struct vmmeter hidden under _KERNEL, and only vmstat(1) is an exclusion.
This is based on benno@'s 4-year old patch:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-July/014471.html
Reviewed by: kib, gallatin, marius, lidl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10156
A comment near kmem_reclaim() implies that we already did that.
Calling the hook is useful, because some handlers, e.g. ARC,
might be able to release significant amounts of KVA.
Now that we have more than one place where vm_lowmem hook is called,
use this change as an opportunity to introduce flags that describe
a reason for calling the hook. No handler makes use of the flags yet.
Reviewed by: markj, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Panzura
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9764
There could be a race between the vm daemon setting RACCT_RSS based on
the vm space and vmspace_exit (called from exit1) resetting RACCT_RSS to
zero. In that case we can get a zombie process with non-zero RACCT_RSS.
If the process is jailed, that may break accounting for the jail.
There could be other consequences.
Fix this race in the vm daemon by updating RACCT_RSS only when a process
is in the normal state. Also, make accounting a little bit more
accurate by refreshing the page resident count after calling
vm_pageout_map_deactivate_pages().
Finally, add an assert that the RSS is zero when a process is reaped.
PR: 210315
Reviewed by: trasz
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9464
